Milestone Moment: Child’s First Library Card
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
Fairy houses and my thoughts on Disney’s Tinker Bell
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
A Rhinocerous in our BACKYARD!
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!
Pattern Playtime
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
Garden Gnomes and Garden Toads
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
The best plans are the ones you didn’t have…
Enjoying the summer’s first honeysuckle. I introduced Claire to this little bit of magic and of course she was smitten! My GPS died a couple of months ago and I’ve been braving the streets of suburbia with no guide, aside from my four year old backseat driver (who ALWAYS points out when your “dinkers” are not being used when turning). Log chimney. So pretty! I … Continue reading The best plans are the ones you didn’t have…
Tadpole Observation (A Cautionary Tale)
In early spring the frogs gathered by the hundreds in our small pond and spent a very noisy weekend engaging in…well, you know. Think Woodstock, 1970s, lots of free love and partner swapping. Egg upon egg upon egg was floating in the water. It was so remarkable I had to photograph it. See an earlier post here. Really, it was a bit ridiculous. I swiped … Continue reading Tadpole Observation (A Cautionary Tale)
Chalk In My Pocket 