Amelia Earhart and Octobaby want your Candy
Happy Halloween! (I’m a little late in posting these) Bee was Amelia Earhart. I made the plane: +5 Daddy-cred. Pea was an octopus. Mom made the costume: +5 Mommy-cred. Trick-or-Treating
View ArticleThis Winter’s Cardboard Playhouse
This is the cardboard playhouse I made with the girls this winter. It has since gotten a white coating of prime, and we plan to paint it (the marker doodles the girls covered it with bleed up through...
View ArticleHave Yourself 100 Years of Games
Go Play! This website offers up a century of games and rhymes and other fun stuff for kids to do. With subcategories like Running Around Games, Skipping Games, Jokes and Rude Rhymes and many more – a...
View ArticleWhat Comics Taught Me About Parenting (link)
What comics taught me about parenting. How can I not link this – and add Geek Mom to my blog roll?
View ArticleLunchbox Notes
We decided to skip the “nutritious” school lunches offered in our district (entrées include: Fried Pizza Sticks – a breaded stick of fried pizza ingredients) and opt for nutritious (sans quotation...
View ArticleA Month Of Things To Do with your Preschooler
Previously titled Things to Do with your 2 year old – too narrow, on second thought :) Today I made this chart showing a month (or more) worth of weekday activities to do with a young preschooler....
View ArticleEmpowering Picture Book Reads for Girls
I came across this worthwhile list today – it is, however, loaded onto 15 different pages in order to create ad revenue for the site. Here is the article. One paragraph per slow-loading add-riddled...
View ArticlePlay-Doh Fairy Tale Sets
Here is a link. In a more perfect world we’d just play this way without the need for the specialized molds – but I really think these are brilliant and smart marketing for Hasbro. A very good...
View ArticleThree plus One equals Nothing At All Like Three
I’ve gotten some very friendly feedback and reminders that this blog is something people enjoy reading. I’ve also been feeling like we’re starting to get a handle on having two children. It has taken...
View ArticleAll-Ages Comics for Emergent Readers
I credit comics for some of Bee’s early reading skills (and some of my own interest in reading as a kid). Below is a list of recommended all-ages comics. Attached to the title links you’ll find a...
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