Bubble Wrap: Trash or Toy?

Who doesn’t love popping bubble wrap!? At first, I thought the answer to that (supposedly rhetorical) question was going to be “my daughter.” The other day, I busted out the bubble wrap with the hope of exposing my toddler to the satisfying joy of squeezing and popping everyone’s favorite plastic packaging. But it was hard work. […]

An Introduction to Gel Balls and Water Beads

Our big girl is 25 months old. Like most kids, eighteen to twenty-four months was a period of rapid growth. Her vocabulary exploded. She started forming  (slightly more) complex sentences with helping verbs, pronouns, and conjunctions. These days, she’s giving us a lot of lengthy monologues: “Mommy, my waffle down in my belly already. Sofi (the […]

Preparing for the Second Child: Part 2

This post may contain affiliate links. My due date is less than two weeks away! With the clock ticking, here are the last five things on my pre-baby to-do list. (To read the first five, check out this post.) 6.) First on the list, a relatively simple task. What kind of “experienced” mom would I […]