tiny bridges

I realized that I didn’t mention The Sneetches in my last post about books. Since I read it to Fiona 3 times yesterday and Liam read it once (and we spend 4 hours in the car without it) it seems a little remiss on my part. It’s one of my favorites for so [...]

Well we’ve been reading, just not keeping track. Let’s see if I can hit some highlights.
Magic School Bus books continue to come up if not daily, weekly. We found a couple of new (to us) easy readers at goodwill and a chapter book at the Arboretum. We checked out the newest book, [...]

After reading this post on the Artful Parent about recycled homemade books I was a little obsessed with the idea of making some, but I wanted to start with something simple. I kept thinking about Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord’s comment about being inspired when she recycled the tab from her teabag. Well it’s summer, [...]

Very simple dress made for Fiona after her 4th of July dress took until the 7th and didn’t come out exactly as planed. This is basically a slightly gathered rectangle of fabric with slightly gathered rectangular straps. If I were to do it again I would have left a lot more fullness in [...]

Fiona’s been talking a lot about what day it is lately. She knows all the names, but doesn’t really have the order down. So I decided to make her a calendar and we’ve been writing down when things like library story hour and so on. I also asked her to draw a [...]

On Sunday we went to the free morning at the Delaware Museum of Natural History to see the dinosaur fossils! It’s a small museum, I think there are four main exhibit halls and two were closed, but it felt like just the right size for a three year old. There was a T. [...]

Somehow Fiona and I have checked out an absurd number of books in the past week. Maybe it’s because we made four separate trips to the library last week. Anyway, I’m trying to reduce to a reasonable number, like around 50.
Fiona remains obsessed with dinosaur books, and checked out a set [...]

“Mama, mama, come see what I’m doing”
“Okay, show me”
While sitting on the couch and swinging one leg:
“P-p-pangea! P-p-p-pangea! P-p-pangea!”
Brought to you, no doubt, by my 6th grade science teacher who embedded that song in my mind for all eternity.

So Fiona is still pretty much obsessed with The Magic School Bus Series. When we’re not reading the books we’re pretending to be the characters or Fiona is pleading with me to read just one more. The books are fun, but pretty long. For those of you not familiar with the series, [...]