Today you’ll find me guest posting on one of my favorite blogs! Head over to I Can Teach My Child to read about how we happily encourage our daughter’s love of big machines, construction sites, and airplanes. {I know you’re shocked by that last one, right? With a pilot for a daddy, I expect nothing […]
Heuristic Play for Babies
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Potty Training Tips–How Our Daughter Potty Trained Herself
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What does a two-year-old eat?
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Food for a One Year Old — 50+ Easy Ideas!
You’ve had a peek into our baby’s menu, but what about older, harder-to-please babies/toddlers? What does a one-year-old eat? Our oldest daughter (now 3 1/2) has always loved strange (frozen, uncooked lima beans) and exotic (pomegranate and papaya) foods and flavors. I can’t explain why, but I’m certainly hoping we can replicate our success with […]
DIY Personalized Picture Books
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Daddy and the Dictionary
They say that reading to your children increases their vocabulary. That was certainly true for us when our two-year-old asked to read THE DICTIONARY this morning. How appropriate since this week we celebrated Read Across America Day! She picked up on “seahorse,” “palm tree,” and “steeple.” But for some crazy reason, words like “schooner” and “spotted […]
Free Printable Dr. Seuss Quote
Are you celebrating Read Across America Day and/or Dr. Seuss’s birthday? We love to read (I was an English major!), so we’ll certainly read (just like we do every day). We’ll probably honor Seuss by busting out Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? It’s our favorite; a lot of the other Seuss books are a bit long […]
Laminated Placemats
I thought I’d share our family’s favorite way to enjoy Dr. Seuss books. We eat them. Okay, technically, it’s just the baby who eats them. The rest of us eat OFF of them. We turned an old, incomplete Seuss book into laminated placemats! I first saw the idea in Real Simple magazine, and it is, […]
Easiest and cheapest way to create and display extra-large photos– Engineering Prints!
If you’re like me (or following me), you may have seen pins floating around pinterest about extra-large “engineering prints.” The idea is that you can go online to Staples (or another print company) and print extra-large, black and white prints on your favorite pictures for cheap. Really cheap. As in, $1.79 for an 18 […]