You’d think after last night’s debacle, we’d do something smart, like putting the crib bars back on until the foam under-sheet barrier we ordered online arrives (yes I paid extra for “2nd-day air”). But that would presume that I have…
Category: toddlerhood
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…
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…
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…
potty TRAINing
It’s like a butterfly landed on your nose, only better because it’s the Emily sticker you got for your third potty success of the day. (Alternate title of this post: In Which Thomas the Tank Engine And His Friends Assist…
it’s thomas’ world; we just peep-peep around in it
Oh Thomas. How quickly you overtook our lives. It started innocently enough with a seeming affinity to train tables at the play spaces and toy stores. We could have gone Brio. Thought briefly about the Brio; Brio would have been…
bedtime ritual
Jonah said: “The animals need to come and listen to the story.” And then he set them up. One by one. Forgive the fuzziness of the photos. Frustratingly, I still don’t seem to have my camera skillz quite at my…