My kid made up a game and taught it to me.

My children LOVE masks. Heck, so do I for that matter. They love being able to put on on and completely become someone or something else. Masks are a great way to encourage children to use their imagination during playtime, which we all know is crucial...

Busy weekends seem to be the new norm and with the kids getting bigger and all of us getting more connected and involved, that looks to be the norm for the future as well. This past weekend we had a full docket of events from a night out in the ...

For the last couple of weeks Sundays have found the Rohl family on a longish bike ride somewhere in the North Portland area. Today we headed East on the Columbia Slough trail and found ourselves between the slough and the Portland International Raceway heading towards the Interstate. We had seen ...

Last week the boys and I went with my parents to Central Oregon to go camping for the week. We loaded my dad’s tear drop trailer he built from plans he found in a 1947 Mechanics magazine and headed South East. Along the way we ran into an accident that ...

I got an email last week asking me if I would like to try out the new pizza at Chuck E Cheese and give away a couple of free cards for other families to try it out as well. I thought back to when I was a kid and how Chuck E ...

You may not be up on the latest fort building trends but take it from me, 2011 is the year of the micro fort. Toddlers and pre-schoolers every where are clambering for smaller, exclusive forts to keep their pesky siblings out and bask in the cozy confines of these personalized ...

Today through Sunday January 9th admission at the Lan Su Chinese Gardens in Old Town Portland is free. Normally $8.50 a person this is not a great kid friendly deal because the kids will rush you through and these gardens should really be savored. But when it’s free it is ...

As a fantastic Christmas gift Beautiful’s sisters got the boys tickets to see Zoo Zoo at the fantastic Imago Theatre. Zoo Zoo is a Mask theatre combining a number of the great characters developed by the Imago Theatre in Portland. The show had a national tour and played at the ...

During the Thanksgiving holiday Beautiful’s parents were here and we decide to hit the local bowling alley and get our roll on. Primo had been bowling once before at a day camp in Indianapolis while we there on vacation and he had been asking to do it again ever since. ...