Awww, thanks, y'all.

Now will someone tell me how to get a dirty t-shirt off a very stubborn toddler? Hello?

Thanks to fashion maven ratphooey!

http://www.ipopmybaby.com/

Yeah, you want your kid's tummy to look like an iPod button. Admit it. You do.

When your husband's motherboard fries itself for the fifth time since May, and he starts cursing not-quite-under-his-breath and the kid wails, it is a good idea to grab


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Overheard in the house: "Honey? That is Mommy's book. It is A Very Short Guide to Medieval Britain. Please don't eat it."

Woo is a big, big Dr. Seuss fan.

She will gladly read One Fish, Two Fish, and has flipped curiously through some of the Horton tales, but her favorite Seuss is...

Green Eggs and HamShe loves it ( Read more... )

I told you it'd been a bad few days. Woo now wears Heffalump as a neck fur.

He's all grubby and I cannot pry him loose when she's sleeping. I only tried once.

When she's really hurting, I produce him out of nowhere and fly him to her and make baby elephant noises. She beams and lifts her hands to the sky and embraces him. Here he comes, my little ( Read more... )

Those Noggin pseudo-commercials with Moose A. Moose and Zee the owl bug me mostly, except for the ones with the ants. I love the snarky ant who never wants what he's offered. ("How 'bout some Sloppy Joes?" "How 'bout a banana?") Yep, he's never satisfied. I like that in an insect.

While I know it's a crock to get besotted parents to spend hundreds of dollars on books, the Scholastic free book deals are pretty cool, and today Miss Woo got her piles of books and her bookbag. I promptly sat down with her and read Green Eggs and Ham. Despite its length - a bit of a challenge for a fifteen-month-old - she paid attention to the ( Read more... )

At what age can we stop giving Woo the ground-up foods? She DOES like them, and they ARE organic, but still, she would much rather have whatever we're having.

She has six or seven (I think she's hiding one from me) teeth, btw.