When we had twins last year, we instantly became a "large" family. When you double the number of your kids in one day, that happens. So, I'm learning a lot about keeping kids of different ages actively involved in play together, and I'm sharing some of those ideas over at Let's Play this month. You can read more here. *Let’s Play is a community partnership led by Dr Pepper Snapple Group to ...
Kids
Monday morning at our house….
A little boy, surrounded by plastic dinosaurs, watching a dinosaur documentary and trying desperately to keep his toys from being taken by a little sister in a pink walker who.... Plays bumper cars down the hall with her sister all day. They bump and back and laugh and turn around and bump into each other again. Often, it reminds me of the ghosts on PacMan...every time they bump, someone ...
The language of little ones….
I may have posted before about some of the precious things my oldest used to say...how she was afraid of "goats and bats" at Halloween...or that she used to use the "Moat and the Troll" to change television channels, but it's been a while since we've had the fun of learning language with a little one. Now that our toddler is growing and his vocabulary is expanding, the fun begins again. Here's ...
How do you know….
When to take your kids to the doctor? Seriously. If they are not running a raging fever, how do you know? My little ones have colds. Who doesn't right now? We've been to spring, almost summer and back in the last two weeks around here. My poor Japanese Magnolias are sporting rotten blooms thanks to this weekend's frost. I'm sneezing, kids are coughing, and the babies are pulling at their ...