End of Tadpoles (?) and Signing her Name

Amie loves this quality drawing paper. It is stiff so it won’t buckle under the pressure of her pen, and it’s smooth, sucking up the Tombow’s ink just right. Expensive materials for a two-and-a-half-year-old, true, but it’s worth it. The only thing that bothers me is that the paper is a bit larger than letter-size. …

Carcassonne (boardgame) for Toddlers

A lifetime time ago, when we were still kidless, we used to get together with friends and spend the evening eating a home-cooked meal, drinking homemade wine, chatting and, eventually, playing Carcassonne. I know, you thought I was going to write “passing out” or some such, but nope, we just played this nerdy board game. …

Coloring, more tadpoles, trees and Bambi

What with all the house and land hunting, premature planning of gardens and scrambling to find a new preschool – after all the hassle we went through finding one here in Brookline! – I may be blogging less, but that doesn’t mean we’re playing less around here! And even though I haven’t posted her drawings …

“Naked” and Fear of Wolves.

– Amie, what’s the opposite of short? – I don’t know! [she even pfsh-es, with an attitude already!] – If you’re not short, what are you? – Naked. “I don’t know” (with the attitude) is now a favorite, as well as “why?”, “why?”, “why?”. She is also afraid of wolves, now, suddenly. She doesn’t want …