Archive for October, 2005
Star Gazing
Sunday, October 30th, 2005My husband and I own a “fancy-schmancy” telescope that we purchased from his best friend last year. In all the hub-bub of newly married life and pregnancy and new baby, we haven’t had a chance to use it… until last night! We got together with the best friend mentioned above and his wife, and did [...]
Potty Training
Saturday, October 29th, 2005Note: This post contains all kind of “potty talk”, in reference to toilet training. Please refrain from reading if you are offended by such things!!
So… we are potty training in our house…FINALLY. S is 3 1/2 years old, and we’re just now getting the potty training thing going. I thought we might do [...]
New Schedule
Thursday, October 13th, 2005It’s 6:51 a.m., and I’ve been up for almost an hour. That might not seem all that incredible, but it really is. For a good 3 years now, my oldest son has been my alarm clock. I stay in bed, until he MAKES me get out of bed. Of course when Baby came along, that [...]
What is Joy?
Wednesday, October 12th, 2005It was naptime, and my 3 year old was stalling.
“Mama, I gotta kiss baby night-night. Night-night baby AB baby AB*… kiss on forehead… kiss on cheek… kiss on other cheek” .
He glances at mama to make sure he’s not in trouble.
“Oh, and kiss on hand… kiss on other hand… kiss on knee… kiss on other [...]
Milestones
Thursday, October 6th, 2005Having an infant and a toddler in the house means that there are always new milestones being reached. It seems like every day the baby learns something new, does some new “trick”, or grows about 6 inches! (Well, not quite 6 inches, but I swear he grows during his naptime sometimes!)
I am keeping a log [...]
Preschool
Monday, October 3rd, 2005We’ve started pre-preschool activity! My 3.5 year old has decided that he wants to “do school”. I was hesitant to spend a lot of money of school curriculum for pre-school, so I did what I usually do when I want to save money. I looked for “free” curriculums on the web. And, I found some [...]