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For Christmas, Santa gave Carrie Philadelphia Chickens and Dog Train. These are both excellent children’s albums (with great lyric books) by Sandra Boynton. My absolute favorite songs off the two albums are “I Need a Nap”, “Fifteen Animals”, “Belly Button”, and “Snuggle Puppy”. But there are so many others that are just so fantastic, it’s [...]
You know it’s time to go to bed when: You’re the last person up, and it’s getting kind of late, and you’re going through the house turning off all the lights. And then you start wondering what the neighbors must think about the fact that it’s so late and there are so many lights on [...]
I’m playing around with flickr, because everyone else seems to be using it. I’m trying to decide if I really want yet another place that I’m storing images, or if I should just keep uploading things to my own server space. Anyone have any fabulous reasons for using it? It does seem neat, and I [...]
When you’re eating out with your toddler who is used to hard plastic straw cups, it might be a good thing to keep a paper cup out of grabbing reach – even if it’s just water and has one of those nifty plastic lids. Paper cups crush very easily, and toddlers have surprisingly strong grips. [...]
My youngest brother gave us an ice cream maker for Christmas – it’s meant to be taken on camping trips, because it doesn’t require electricity. We rolled it around the living room floor for 20 minutes several nights ago, and enjoyed the fruits of our labor after with tasty homemade vanilla ice cream. Apparently, it [...]
It’s probably not a good thing that it looks and feels so much like spring this week. Today I was vacuuming the downstairs, and the sun was streaming through the window and I felt so happy – while vacuuming, which I hate! Carrie was not too thrilled with the sun, though, because it’s low enough [...]
Is it possible for a 14-month-old baby to be an insomniac? Because it’s 10:30 and Carrie is still awake. I put her down sometime between 8 and 8:30 – her usual bedtime – and she’s been up there playing with her aquarium, kicking the mattress, and generally not sleeping. Not crying, not fussing, just not [...]
And the honor goes to…a pair of socks! My feet are toasty warm tonight! Let’s see, I cast on the first sock on the 3rd, and finished the second sock on the 8th. I’m not 100% happy with the fit – they’re a bit loose – but maybe they’ll shrink a tiny bit in the [...]
Well, I’m already to the point where I’m turning the heel on the second sock, but rather than doing that this evening I instead did this: Thanks to Cindy for the link.
Target has a fantastic new toy aisle! They have some great wooden toys, including some kitchen stuff/play food that I hope is still there in a year or so – Carrie’s still a bit young for it. They also had some “critter chairs”. My mom had pointed these out to me on the Pottery Barn [...]