Tonight we put him to bed in his big boy bed for the first time. And for the first time he fell out, at 9:47 p.m. Sigh. Fortunately, I’d put my old maternity body pillow (see, sometimes you save things…
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day out with thomas
Thomas the Tank Engine takes time out from his busy schedule as a Very Useful Engine on the Island of Sodor in order to travel around the United States and pull wagons full of adoring fans at various steam train…
cake
Leila’s younger son’s birthday party was today. He’s 9. She’s not here to bake him a cake, so I offered to do it. I’ve only ever made three cakes in my life – two for Jonah’s first birthday parties (yes…
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How is time flying by like this? I’ve written so many posts in my head, again. Currently, I’m grabbing this one minute to type a note, say hello. Hello! Am waiting for a guy. The guy who is going to…
baking with jonah
I’ve made a new friend on Facebook (Hi Michelle!) who is writing a cookbook for families, and pretty much every time she asks for volunteers to test her recipes, I say yes. But not true to the intention of the…
in which potty training and learning to spell coincide
We have alphabet magnets on our fridge. Upper and lower case as it happens. The former a gift from my sister, the latter a gift from the nanny – part of a toy from Leap Frog that involves a big…
sticker-palooza
So, the benefit of having a child who is “adaptable” and “distractible” (according to at least one expert, and to a book I’d read with a questionnaire) is that one can pretty much just stop talking about charts and prizes…
progress reports: preschool and potty
So, there are Thomas and Friends stickers all over our house. Mercifully, they seem to have been manufactured with some kind of temporary-ish glue (theoretically rendering them “reusable”) so that they aren’t leaving permanent marks anywhere (unlike the stickers from…