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If dragon doesn’t work out, we’ve got a back-up non-superhero plan:

I pick up our 3 year old neighbor and Will from school on Thursdays. We’ve been talking a lot about Halloween, trying to convince Will to branch out away from superheroes. My neighbor is going to be a Monkey. Will has now decided he is going to be a Dragon. The conversation went down like […]

Halloween ranks right up there with Christmas as one of my favorite crafty holidays. Every year, we break out the scary pumpkins for the top of our house, dig out the CD of halloween sounds, buy some pumpkins and get to work on spooky crafts. Last year we made cheesecloth ghosts, jack-o-lanterns for the front […]

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Target was a madhouse on Saturday. Wild monsters running up and down the aisles! The good (for us) news is that I think my anti-superhero campaign has gotten through to Will, and he might not be a super hero for halloween this year. We’re thinking dragon. and Sylvie, dragon slayer.

Costco has a baby set – stroller, bassinet, carseat, diaper bag. Doug emailed me a picture to confirm that we should get it for Sylvie’s birthday. Reading over my shoulder, Sylvie was in convulsions, “Baby! Baby! Baby!” When he arrived home, I convinced Doug we could bring the box of baby things inside without Sylvie […]

It is soccer season, again. The official first day for under-5s was two weekends, ago, but we were in the woods battling poison ivy, so this past weekend was Will’s first for the Fall season. Check out the mad soccer skilz that run in our family:

I’ve mentioned before that I know my son is intelligent, but I am struck by how his learning style is so different from mine. Approach this kid with an activity book and a pen, and he recoils in terror; come at him with a box of wooden blocks and he dives in ready to play […]

This past weekend, while Ike beat up Texas, we were roughing it at Samuel P Taylor park. The more camping we do with kiddies, the more relaxed our definition of “camping” becomes. Earlier this year, deciding we couldn’t handle the dirt in Housekeeping, we spent a weekend “roughing it” on some of the more comfortable […]