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The Tiniest Rose Bud
Ah,Spring. Bugs to catch…plants to torment…my kids are in heaven. Toddlers latch onto odd things, sometimes. Right now, my 3 year old totes around a hard plastic angry octopus named ‘Stretch” from Toy Story 3. A few days before that, it was a rubbery fly that she pulled out of the dollar bin at Target.…
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Rain in the Forecast…
We’re somewhat preempted to grumble about rainy days. Even the weather channel girl mulls over rainy forecasts, trading in her ‘sunny day’ forecast enthusiasm for a more glum tone. Every wonder why that is? What’s so bad about the rain? It makes no difference to my kids what the weather is doing outside…their focus lies…
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Tippy-Toes
With toddlers, is always a new trick, right? Lots of little kids walk on their tippy toes when they are toddlers, especially when they first learn to walk. At least, that’s what I’ve been told…and that’s what my first daughter did. It was one of those extremely cute ‘baby’ things that she did…and then it…
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C3P0
Brianne (my almost-4-year-old) is obsessed with Star Wars. To my husband’s delight, she totes around 2 of his old Storm Trooper toys that were found at Grandma and Grandpa Bucher’s house, and refuses to answer to her own name. “Mom, C3P0 does not want breakfast. C3P0 is not hungry yet. C3P0 will eat Cheerio’s later. …
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