Sarah: I like this setup you have here, can I touch it?
Jade: Noooo! (Running toward her.)
Sarah: (Smiles, doesn’t touch it.)
Jade: Softening, she explains, If you touch it, it will burn your fingers. It won’t burn my fingers if I touch it.
Sarah: What if I use magic so it won’t burn my fingers?
Jade: Yeeeaah!
Commence new game.
They [...]
Filed in: cuteness | June 10, 2009
An odd assortment of adoring my own kids, parenting struggles and insights, and a slight cookie addiction. All in one gigantic blog post.
Cuteness
When Jade was about 14 months old, Sarah had just turned four AND we had just made a major, complicated move and she was having a bit of a rough time. One [...]
Filed in: child development • cuteness • family • parenting • recipes | March 5, 2009
Family dinner. Both girls want to say the prayer. First.
Before any agreement is reached, two-year-old Jane says her own super-speedy blessing.
As soon as it’s over, Sariah says, “Erase, Erase” and then offers her own version.
To which Jane replies, “Erase, erase.”
Would you like to take a glimpse into our lives at the moment? Come on in, relax, pour yourself some hot cocoa. (We do quite a bit with our new Cocomotion machine.) (Seriously, a whole separate appliance. For making hot chocolate. I know.)
Miraculous, if a bit Bizarre
First up, a lovely gem from two-year-old [...]
Filed in: child development • cuteness • family • home education • parenting | February 10, 2009
I’d been working periodically on Jade’s little “sleeper doll” for over a week. The body part was quick–just sew up a sleeper and stuff it–so it was just waiting for a head most of that time. But Jade slept with it anyway, calling it her “doll that doesn’t have a head.”
I finished it during [...]
Two-year-old Jade was asking to borrow Sarah’s wallet and Sarah didn’t want her to.
But during Jade’s nap, Sarah and I decided to make her a wallet of her own for Christmas. When Jade opened it and saw what it was, she exclaimed, “A wallet! I’ve always wanted a wallet!” and ran over to give her [...]