...when your finger is hurting, be very careful not to allow your youngest child to innocently grab ahold of the offending hand, squeeze, and then twist.It wasn't quite a blood-curdling scream, but I'm sure it turned a few heads -- I can't know for sure, because I was too busy being twisted into a crippled lump by my daughter. I'm sure to the ( Read more... )

They really do grow up before you know it. mswewh was working with G on her letters, spelling simple words, and sounding out words this week. G is definitely entering that phase where she's really into letters and numbers, so it's working out well. Better than I thought, even ( Read more... )

It would seem we have, when it comes to M's potty training. In addition to my earlier notes, we went to Gymboree earlier today and had ZERO accidents in almost 3 hours, plus more importantly M told me she had to go and then POOPED on the potty! Even before we moved, when M was just starting to get the potty training thing, she steadfastly refused ( Read more... )

Got up this morning with M. Turned on the tv for her and crashed on the couch. Then, out of nowhere, she comes over and says "I pee." She was still in her diaper from overnight and I knew it was fairly full, so I figured that meant she had peed and it was leaking. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that not only was that not the case, but ( Read more... )

We just tried to explain the differences between Hannukah and Christmas to G (our neighbors are jewish), and she nodded when I asked her if she understood what I had explained to her.

Then she responded with "Sometimes when I was a little baby, I was jewish."