When I was, I don’t know, 6 or 7 years young, my grandma taught me the basic knitting stitch and gave me a pair of her needles to keep for myself. I remember being so proud as stitch after stitch went sliding from one needle to the other, eventually stacking on top of one another [...]
We keep our feet on the ground. Let’s be gentle with that, please. We need to share, and it’s ______’s turn right now. That’s not for OBaby. Can you show me your indoor voice? Let’s leave that there, please. Ouch! That hurts Mommy! Make good choices. Show me how you do that gently. Can you [...]
To commemorate this occasion (that I didn’t even realize was an occasion until I opened this browser to write), I share with you: The sheer genius of my child, reading some Eric Carle to himself at 18 months old. Notice how he associates the words with the pages being open? How he speaks, pauses to [...]
Update on 1/31/11: According to random.org, the winner of the Pear Tree Greetings Kids V-day cards is comment number 45, Nicole P. Congrats, Nicole! I will be emailing you shortly. ~~~~~~ Hey, remember how I was going to blog yesterday (and on Monday) and how I actually had a full calendar of posts lined up [...]
