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The weather was finally hot here today. Hello, one day of summer. But since I’m feeling cranky, and out of touch with my blog, what better way to check back in than with a little rant? <begin rant> We returned the bed bumper we’d bought for Jonah because it was made of polyurethane foam and . . . → Read More: feeling hot and bothered Alt title: Cirque du Ican’tbelievehesatstillthewholetime My hope is that some other parent who is out there googling cirque with toddler or ovo take my 2-year-old? will come across this post and get half price tickets and some courage. There wasn’t much info for me on the internet when we were trying to decide. Could a . . . → Read More: cirque du soleil’s ovo with toddler: yes we can Some mothers are assiduous about avoiding plastic. Others diligently acquire intelligence boosting toys like black-and-white everything and Baby Einstein (when that was, you know, the thing). I’d managed, up to now, to avoid toys that would emit sounds that make me tear at my hair and scratch my eyes out. Before this week, he had . . . → Read More: we have entered the era of the noisy toy Whooosh! And then we flew home. Live blogging the vay-kay stalled mid-trip due to my trying to upgrade the platform of this blog and thereby breaking it. The lovely hosts at blue host had a backup they could revert to but by then I was ready to give the internet a rest and just get . . . → Read More: traveling with toddler kauai day 4 – 8: it’s over already? On Tuesday, Scott took Jonah for the whole day while I worked. Now that we’re on a reduced breastfeeding schedule, this is much easier to pull off. In the morning, they went to Crosstown Community Center for “Campfire Songs” — a guy playing solo with guitar or fiddle as it suits the tune. Parents and . . . → Read More: daddy and jonah’s fine day Jonah loves music (“Mee-you-gick!” he says). He now knows that Mee-you-gick comes out of our computers and so he points and demands it when the mood strikes him. We have a few kid CDs loaded into our laptops. Tonight, we played They Might Be Giants, “Here Come the 123s” while I fed Jonah dinner, or . . . → Read More: dance, he said Today is mostly a lovely day. The weather is Bay-Area gorgeous, sunny, blue skied, and just a touch on the cold side of warm. We went to the Kindergym toddler playtime at Temple Beth Abraham.Jonah messed a bit with the toys at the water table (Cup! Dolphin!) and then took a spin around the room . . . → Read More: oakland kindergym and three-syllable words I’m not much of a causes girl. Signing petitions, sending letters to congress/senate people, not usually my thing. But this? The very same people who protect us from lead in painted toys (or try to) and phthalates in plastic toys (somewhat) are now going to force hundreds (thousands) of home-based mom-and-pop owned handmade toymakers out . . . → Read More: save handmade toys and clothes: action needed |
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