Hooray for snow! Just enough snow fell that we were able to enjoy its beauty without grumbling about cold toes and plowing woes. Above is a picture out our living room window of our “frog pond.” Remember the tadpoles we watched develop in the spring? They are now sound asleep in the muck at the bottom of the pond, I’m sure they’re enjoying their long … Continue reading Winter Woods Trek
I’ve been nursing a nasty tooth infection that led to a root canal and a few days of some pretty strong painkillers. I’m off all the crazy stuff now, but still a bit sore so I have been sleeping in a bit and not the most “present” of parents. Ping-ping the penguin here to cheer me up. Love his flipper feet! Claire presented me with … Continue reading Independent Creativity
No craft or witty project today, just a proud kid showing off her very first library card! At 5 years old, our local public library lets the kids have there own card to check out materials and Claire couldn’t be happier. To help manage the LARGE amount of books, movies, video games and magazines I bring home myself, I’ve decided to limit Claire’s checkouts to … Continue reading Milestone Moment: Child’s First Library Card
I’ve noticed an explosion in imaginative play this past year. From gnomes over the summer (thanks to the beautiful book we checked out from the library) to today’s obsession with fairies, the world of this preschooler seems filled with magic. Claire spent days working on fairy houses on our front porch. She’s used rocks, sticks and leaves and is now begging us for a … Continue reading Fairy houses and my thoughts on Disney’s Tinker Bell
Ok, so my title is slightly misleading, but still — check out this awesome beetle we found outside! You know the bug is big when you can HEAR it crawling around under the leaf litter: What a great find! If you were wondering, it’s a beetle in the dynastinae family, a rhinoceros beetle. Just check out that horn, if you’ve found a cooler beetle, I … Continue reading A Rhinocerous in our BACKYARD!
When I hear the sound of plastic beads hitting the art room floor I cringe…it usually means that for the next 3 days I’ll be vacuuming up accidentally scattered beads from the entire house (and it sound like machine gun fire, I’m sure it’s not good for my vacuum). Sometimes though, there’s a creative mathematician on the loose who must be loocking for something … Continue reading Pattern Playtime
Getting dirty is a skill set Claire especially excels at. The muddy project Claire is working on in the photo above was inspired by a book we checked out from the library about gnomes. Claire was enthralled by it, and I must admit that I was as well. Growing up, I absolutely Gnomes by Will Huygen LOVED the Nickelodeon show “David the Gnome.” Turns out … Continue reading Garden Gnomes and Garden Toads
Chalk In My Pocket 