(Our snowcat) “I want the nursery rhyme virgin!” “Huh?” “The nursery rhyme adventure.” “… Can you tell me again?” “The nursery rhyme version!” You see, in her Nursery Rhymes, they sing Zed, not Zee. That version. Anyone know about good gloves for tiny hands? We’ve tried several and they never fit and always come off.
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On my time
DH is the one who drops Amie off at daycare in the mornings on his way to work. Every morning I rush him/them. Amie by now knows the mantra: “I need to go to office, Baba needs to go to office, Mama also needs to go to office, in the study!” (This concept, by the …
It’s Boo!
Amie was never interested in TV, but on the flights to and from Singapore she got hooked on the movie Monsters, Inc. She now asks to see it every day, but that’s not what this post is about. It’s about how much she loves those characters, talks about them all the time, pretends to play with …
US Cesarean Rate: 31.1%
News alert. This is in from the Childbirth Connection: Relentless Rise in Cesarean Section Rate The National Center for Heath Statistics has just released the preliminary U.S. national cesarean rate for 2006: 31.1%. This rate has increased by 50% in the past decade, reaching a record level every year in this century. The most common …
Caterpillar
Today Amie asked if we could go to the library. Not knowing the weather conditions outside – comes with living in a warm and cosy basement – we got all dressed up. Then we walked about 5 yards in 20 F in a biting wind on an icy pavement and… turned back. It was brutal. …
Kapla Building Blocks
Ok, I think we finally found the ultimate building blocks! (Baba and Amie play with the Kapla blocks) Looking for a birthday present to give a thee-year-old, we stumbled upon these Kapla Blocks. My first reaction was: huh, so what? They are simply wooden blocks or rather miniature planks. But then you take them out …
The Terribly Cheeky Twos
“Amie, don’t throw those blocks.” “I’m not thro-o-owing, Mama. I’m practicing throwing.”
Puzzling Again!
Have you seen Amie puzzling (video to the right)? She was only 18 months old and really into it: fit-the-shape peg puzzles as well as jigsaw puzzles. After a while she lost interest and moved on. I wasn’t heart-broken, because I knew that by then she had memorized all the puzzles and wasn’t, therefore, really puzzling …
It’s Snowing and Construction Progress
It started snowing here on my way to pick up Amie from her daycare, around one. On the way back she found it so peaceful she fell asleep in the stroller (it’s a ten minute walk). It really is rather magical and eerily calm when those flakes start coming down. While she naps I stole …
Doll House Construction Site
The day after Anja commented on the dollhouse in the background of a recent picture, Amie took a sudden interest in it. It had been sitting on that ottoman for months… The first thing she asked for was steps. The Manushes couldn’t get into the house! So I made steps, which the Manushes now use …