So, first we had no rail to prevent him from rolling out of bed. Then we had the Pilates bolster which sort of worked though it looked dicey at best and he was quite crowded in there, what with having…
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feeling hot and bothered
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…
cirque du soleil’s ovo with toddler: yes we can
Alt title: Cirque du Icantbelievehesatstillthewholetime 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…
we have entered the era of the noisy toy
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…
traveling with toddler kauai day 4 – 8: it’s over already?
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…
daddy and jonah’s fine day
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” —…
dance, he said
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…
oakland kindergym and three-syllable words
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…