When the garage door goes up, it mean Daddy is home. JDaniel listens for the noise the door makes as it rises. Once the noise stops he races for the kitchen door. It must be a wonderful feeling to hear him shouting, “Daddy! Daddy!” as my husband walks in the door. I know there are some days when he is exhausted and would just love to go lay down Continue Reading
Muffin Tin Monday doesn't have a theme this week. I decided to create a lunch based on the blog's theme which is Father's Day. JDaniel loved the fact he was having a "Dad" lunch.
What is "Dad" lunch? You have chicken breast cut into a D, a cantaloupe A, and a cheddar cheese D in the first row. The second row has peaches set out in a D, an A made Continue Reading
The Tomato Shack Giveaway was won by dgood. Verymarried, cdziuba, lisa, jerseygirl137, Tamara B have all won an Alouette Brie cheese. I want to thank all of you for entering the giveaways. Continue Reading
Each week I travel around the internet visiting blogs. Here are a few posts that I loved, learned from, or gave me great ideas:
Child Related:
Havin' Fun Yet has a fun clothes pin idea for counting called Clothespins. This would be a easy counting tool to put together. I bet you have all the things you need to make it at home.
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We loved working with bugs this week. JDaniel has been so into trains and construction equipment. Bugs were a great diversion.
Books
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We read two bug-related books this week:
The Very Greedy Bee by Steve Smallman is about a bee that decides not to share a wonderful field of flowers he has found with his other Continue Reading
My husband had been single and living in our house for over twelve years when we got married. There were interesting pieces of shall we call it "nostalgia" tucked in nooks and crannies all over the house. We believe somehow in rush to clean a bedroom that had a lot of nostalgia in it I might have discarded the remote control to a robot dog. After Continue Reading
We went to Barnes and Nobel last Saturday night and saw three bird nests tucked into this Barnes and Noble sign. I didn't have my camera that night. JDaniel and I went back on Tuesday morning so I could take these shots.
The birds kept flying around the shopping plaza looking for bugs for their families.
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You know your toddler is like a spider if he tries to climb everything.Yes, everything is a piece of climbing equipment. The outside of the stairs become something to scale. JDaniel saw his friend Jake do this and has tried to do it for months. He has tried to climb a tree. He wasn’t sure how to make it up a tree. JDaniel just clung to a branch and Continue Reading
Each week I travel around the internet visiting blogs. Here are a few posts that I loved, learned from, or gave me great ideas:Child Related Posts:My friend Valerie introduced me to babalisme's post of Fairy Tale Paper Dolls. These would be great to have on a road trip this summer.Mozi Esme's Tot School post on Goats and Bridges has given me great Continue Reading
I was given a beautiful baby book when JDaniel was born as a gift. I put it on a shelf to work on later. Well, he is now two and three months and it is still empty.There are slips of paper with his weight and height from doctor’s visits that could be recorded. Pictures are on the computer that could be printed out. Lists of gifts I was given at Continue Reading