Fridays have become our We Can’t Stop Reading days but there’s not much to report this week. It’s been all Madeline all the time. In keeping with Sasha’s obsession with objects disappearing in books, her main interest with Madeline is with Madeline’s empty bed. “Where is the other one?” she asks, then answers her own […]
Ever since we went to the American Museum of Natural History Sasha has been obsessed with dinosaur tails and whales’ blowholes. She draws them with markers, with bath crayons, on her chalkboard. Really, wherever she can. And she loves a book that gives her the opportunity to talk about those parts of an animal’s anatomy, […]
Wow, sleep issues really bring out the commenters in full force! Thanks to everyone who offered ideas, experience, and book recommendations yesterday. I am pleased to report that last night’s bedtime was much less painful than the previous night. I will get to why I think that was true in a minute. First, a note […]
A few nights ago my husband and I heard the inevitable kaboom of our toddler lifting herself over the side of her crib and landing on . . . God knows what body part. Sasha seemed fine but we didn’t want to risk that happening again, so the next night we took the side off […]
I’ve been wanting to write this post for awhile but have been waiting for a TV show birth for timeliness. But the Up All Night birth came and went, as did two Parenthood births, and somehow I couldn’t get it together to post. So here it goes now, sans timeliness. Back when I was pregnant […]
If you have a toddler, you probably know this video: Sasha has watched what she calls “Counting to the Number Four” so many times that she can sing it almost word for word the entire way through. And she likes to make her head dance like the “chickens just back from the shore.” Recently, her […]
I think I never feel as much like a *mom* as I do when Sasha is sick. Those days are harder, for sure, what with all the food throwing and screeching and I-want-this-no-I-don’t-want-it-I-WANT-IT-ing. But I also have a definite understanding of where the fury is coming from and because of that it’s easier for me […]
Many thanks to everyone who responded to my question last week on what to do with this project now that my daughter has officially aged out of my self-imposed two-year age limit. I have been giving this question a lot of thought over the past few months and I think I’ve found the direction I […]