Mind Games

Yet another week was interrupted by illness here! This time it was a sinus infection for JediBoy that threw us for a loop. He started to feel bad after lunch on Tuesday and didn’t really recover until after lunch on Thursday. All of Wednesday he spent in bed, napping and watching PBS. [...]

I don’t know where he gets it, really!
This afternoon, JediBoy and BabyGirl were cuddling on the couch. He loves to build forts, or caves, or hideouts from couch cushions and pillows and draw her into them. Today, he was using our big pillows as a blanket and cuddling up with her.
Then he said, [...]

Sometimes mom is right.
JediBoy woke up late this morning but happy, and seemed fine. We had ourselves some fun, flipping coins and rolling dice and keeping tallies of the outcome, reading variations of the Paul Bunyan story, coloring pictures of nanny goats and watching videos about cheese making.
Then he started to feel grumpy, and [...]

From Kids Health:
From 18 to 24 Months
Kids should have a vocabulary of about 20 words by 18 months and 50 or more partial words by the time they turn 2. By age 2, kids should be learning to combine two words, such as “baby crying” or “Daddy big.” A 2-year-old should also be able to [...]

JediBoy woke during the night last night, long enough to listen to all of Jim Weiss’s King Arthur and Patrick Stewart’s Peter and the Wolf, so once he got back to sleep today he slept until a few minutes after ten. That scooted all our meals off by a bit, so instead of our [...]

Oh goodness. This week really slipped away from us. I was recovering from my terrible cold at the beginning of the week, just as JediBoy was coming down with it. Not only that, but we spent Sunday and Monday rearranging furniture and wound up unplugging the computer that has the functional printer. [...]

One year ago today… we drove a van, took two planes and an airport shuttle and arrived at our hotel in Guatemala City, excited that the very next morning we’d meet our own BabyGirl.
Imagine our shock when we went to meet the agency rep around 3:30 and she told us that the foster parents were [...]

Is it really Sunday? The end of this week has been very surreal for me. I’ve been fighting a chest cold and terrible sore throat since after the fire station field trip on Wednesday. I’m finally starting to feel a tiny bit better, but because I’ve missed large chunks of the past [...]

I’ve been offline most of the past two days, hiding in bed with a chest cold and rotten sore throat. I’m starting to see a little improvement today, so I wanted to share the following fact with you:
The Poison Control Center says that a 23-month-old girl will not be harmed by eating 28 Halls [...]