1. Take a large metal can (one of the kinds with a plastic lid) and fill it with the rings for Mason jars…big fun to roll around.
2. An ice cube.
3. A turkey baster — interactive as one person can make it “blow” on the baby.
4. Shoes with laces, velcro, and zippers.
5. Salad tongs that […]
Wow. A whole month has passed! Amazing…
It’s been a pretty good month. I can’t really complain about too much (except for the pregnancy related stuff in the following post). My daughter has been better about doing her workboo-type stuff, and is actually asking how to write/spell things independently. This was a big stressor for me […]
1. The pregnant waddle-walk.
2. I have to pee!
3. Everyone has a comment to make. My favorite, so far, has been, “Gee, you’re going to be too big for you maternity clothes soon!”
4. Insomnia.
5. It’s hard to carry a basket of dirty clothes into the basement.
6. Lower back pain.
7. I have to pee again!
8. The temptation […]
Well, blogging has definitely been a back-burner event for me lately. I really wanted to be consistent with the Learning Log entries, at the very least, but it has been tricky squeezing in the computer time.
I’ve learned a lot this past month. We’ve had some great weeks and a week where I am pretty sure […]
In no particular order…
1. Publish a children’s book (or two or three!).
2. Go back to England and visit with family.
3. Overcome my fear of heights!
4. Learn to do a cartwheel (sad, isn’t it?).
5. Travel with my family to the Galapagos Islands and see Lonesome George.
6. Take another language immersion program.
7. Learn to cook Indian food […]
Well, this was the week we eased into being “official.” Our notice of intent is in to the state and so we continue doing what we’ve been doing forever…but it’s offical now, right?
It was a great week. Monday we had our fun Math Adventure on the Kitchen Floor, and I really felt that was quite […]
Well, I prefer these logs to be weekly rather than tri-weekly, but oh well. Trying to get back on track now that it’s the more “official” part of the year (at least in terms of other people’s expectations and getting lots of questions!).
But, to catch up…these three weeks were very busy with a focus on […]
Doodlebug is a sorting fiend, and sometimes she drives me a bit nutty. She sorts through beads (beads that she “made,” by the way, from cutting up a bunch of MardiGras bead necklaces) and bottle caps. I feel I must insert here that we have been collecting a bunch of bottle caps for several years […]
Well, we’ve seen off two monarch butterflies successfully this summer — both boys. We’ve added to our garden, providing the caterpillars with copious amounts of milkweed, battling aphids all the way. I was quite content to be an “empty nester,” but we are still nurturing a small caterpillar that was discovered on a leaf of […]
It is with much awe and fascination that my family has been watching our monarch caterpillars “do their thing.” The little caterpillars eat and eat, grow and grow. They molt; they eat their skins (this was far-out!); they make a chrysalis; they become butterflies.
How do they know? We watch them and all I can think […]