Birdie's classes for the fall are starting to wrap up as we approach the holidays. This fall she did ( Read more... )

When I summed our 2024 Festival Attendance, I for got one festival. We went to the Chalk Festival at the Cleveland Museum of Art on Sunday, September 15. After Torah Tots we ran home and picked up M, and then it was off to the art museum.

This was not Birdie's first time at the Chalk Festival, as M took her in 2023. I'm told this year's iteration ( Read more... )

M loves a good festival, and there are plenty of kid friendly festivals in Cleveland. This year so far we've hit four festivals of varying entertainment value. Most of these festivals were at Edgewater Park, which apparently is ground zero for Cleveland festival hosting ( Read more... )

My daughter today at nap time: "I'm not a sleepover lady, I'm a carrot shop lady."

Context:
- M spent $1 and got a bunch of decoration carrots, which Birdie quickly 'fed' to Bun-bun.
- There's a Bluey episode that features 'Dad' as a carrot shop owner.

She still took a nap.

The Cleveland Museum of Art has been doing the City Stages for at least a decade now. This series has usually involved free world music on Wednesdays in July outdoors at Transformer Station. My radio station has livestreamed most of them. I've gone sporadically over the years, but this year I figured that at Birdie's age, a free outdoor concert ( Read more... )

My first concert of the year was on Saturday, April 20. I took Birdie to see her very first Cleveland Orchestra performance, sort of. For many, many years the Orchestra has been trying to attract a younger audience, and there's really not a younger potential audience than my daughter. To cater to the kids Birdie's age who aren't even old enough for ( Read more... )

Back in 2017, M and I went down to the Metroparks at dusk to watch the fireflies come out en mass. I don't recall that we've done that since, but this summer we haven't had to. The fireflies have arrived earlier this year (probably because all the spring/summer things are three weeks earlier), and they have been all over our yard ( Read more... )

Last year, the list of things we sang to Birdie at bedtime was shorter and varied by the singer. For the last several months, we've had a whole sequence of songs after we've read 3-4 books to her. Here's the list, in order ( Read more... )

In March, Birdie got hooked on Encanto, which led to her being given the following the things by my wife's mother and sister ( Read more... )

We've reached the point in Birdie's life where we've started taking her to a lot of classes. None of them are a long-term as her Sunday School, but what they lack in duration they make up in quantity. Among the classes she's taken so far:

- Since January, she's done two sections of Music Class with Miss Tracey at the Beck Center. I took her to two ( Read more... )