During the great toy purge of ‘07, we almost threw out the toy garbage truck. It kind of looks like this picture but I don’t think that’s the actual one that we have. It is orange like that and about the same size though. And it made noises.
Rather than send it to Goodwill, I took [...]
When Pookie was a baby, he used to get a fair case of excema each winter. We started putting a humidifier in their bedroom during the dry time of the year. It doesn’t seem to be so bad these days, but we still do it in case the humidifier is helping prevent the [...]
The Easy Bake Oven retrofit kit arrived in the mail today via FedEx. The letter that came with it made it sound like it took so long because they actually had to make the piece, perhaps.
Anyway, the piece is just a little plastic grate that you put over the entry where the cakes, etc. [...]
Here is Pookie’s instruction sheet on how to make breakfast. This would be helpful for any child learning how to be more independent. We have one of these cool cereal dispensers, but you could change it to a box of cereal. We have hung this on the refrigerator and he refers to it when he [...]
One of the best ways to help small kids make their own choices is to help them sort through the huge amount of options that exist by only presenting them with a small set of options. Small kids can easily be overwhelmed trying to pick one shirt out of the thirty they own. If [...]
