Pigs Do Fly

Melissa and Doug are giving away a play kitchen!  Details on thier blog.

He loves to make silly faces for the camera! I don’t let her sleep on soft things like that when I’m not there.  She just won’t nap on her back, at all!

The morning “preschool” hours on Disney channel contain no normal commercials.  They have ads for thier own shows, and small (usually educational) shorts to fill the space at the end of programs until the next hour.  A few years ago, they aired a series called “This is Daniel Cook“. Daniel is a cute little red head […]

As I have mentioned before, finding quail eggs has been a perpetual thorn in my side.  I have been to over a dozen stores, from local asian markets, gourmet groceries and “world foods” vendors to chain stores like Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and the like.  Although I didn’t find quail eggs, I did go back a […]

This weeks open ended art project theme is “Matisse”.  It’s a new thing; Open Ended Art will feature a specific artist once a month.  We read “When Pig-Asso met Moo-Tisse” and “Drawing with Scissors” as well as checking out some Matisse art on the internet to get familiar with his work. I really loved this […]

When I was photographing today’s bento lunch, Kidlet asked if he could take the picture today.  Why not?  It’s digital, it’s not like its going to waste film.  “sure,” says I. I thought I’d get a blurry photo or two of the whole lunch, perhaps off center.  Instead, I got these:  Maybe I should have […]

Happy Halloween!

Kid friendly friday is hosted at I Blame My Mother.  Check out this weeks linky to see the projects and ideas that other mom’s have posted! I think that making book marks is a great activity for kids.  We’ve done it a number of times over the years.  It lends itself to many different themes […]

This weeks open ended art project was pumpkins.  I had a bunch of pumpkin stickers and die cuts left over from the bookmark activity we did at his harvest party, so I pulled those all out, added basic art supplies and let him at it. First he started scribbling all over the page in multiple […]

This day was exhausting!  My mom comes every other week to spend the day with baby L and let me volunteer at kidlet’s school.  Today was thier Harvest Party, and I was running one of the tables (we set up 4 stations and they rotated around to each).  I had them making bookmarks.  I have […]