Reading Together
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth, Tommy on Nov 5th, 2009
Category Archive for 'Children’s Books'
Morning Reading
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth, Tommy on Sep 10th, 2009
Bottle update, because I know everyone’s dying to know how Lizzie’s doing with that…last night Laura came over to hold down the fort for an hour and a half after the kids were in bed. I told her she’d probably be able to study in peace and quiet…but after Tommy sent over a small avalanche […]
A good reader!
Posted in Children's Books, Tommy on Aug 3rd, 2009
Yesterday, I read The Boxcar Children to Tommy. The whole thing. In just two sittings! Inspired by a conversation with friends over dinner last night, I wondered how much of a real chapter book Tommy could handle. (While he enjoys the Little Bear series, those aren’t exactly what comes to mind when one thinks of […]
More decorations for Elizabeth's nursery
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth on Jul 29th, 2009
When we decorated Tommy’s nursery last fall, we framed a few of our favorite art prints. Yes, they just happened to be scenes from great children’s literature. But I got morning sickness and we got busy, and we never finished the project. Now that we’re starting fresh with Elizabeth’s nursery, I decided to finish the […]
"Bapa Bama Mummer House"
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth, Family, Tommy on Jul 3rd, 2009
We’re at Grandpa and Grandma Muller’s house, in “Mish-din”, as Tommy tells us. The drive with the kids went okay on Wednesday. Elizabeth was still sleeping a ton from her immunizations on Tuesday, and Tommy did as well as could be expected. He read a book with Grandma Willett over the phone (thank you to […]
Reading with Elizabeth
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth on Jun 27th, 2009
Most of my reading in a day is per Tommy’s request; during his nap yesterday, I decided that Elizabeth and I were going to have some special girl bonding time with one of my all-time favorite children’s illustrators, Tasha Tudor. We savored A Time To Keep together, then I left her to look at my […]
First Lessons in Homemaking
Posted in Children's Books, Elizabeth, Homemaking on Jun 12th, 2009
Elizabeth has been read to a lot so far, mostly because Tommy wants me to read to him whenever his sister is on my lap. Sometimes she just wants to look at pictures during her tummy time, too. I decided that we could start our homemaking lessons early, using Blueberries For Sal. Can’t you tell […]
Family time, bargains, and hanging out
Posted in Children's Books, Family, Tommy on Apr 25th, 2009
Today has been a lovely Saturday…this morning, we hit up the semi-lame Lincoln Square kid’s day. Lincoln Square wants to be cool, but they haven’t quite figured out how to actually have things going on at their special event days. Basically, we walked around. Tommy liked walking with Daddy. And he got a pinwheel, which […]
Bedtime Story
Posted in Children's Books, Tommy on Apr 8th, 2009
One of the many wonderful things about having Derek back home is that he does a great job reading bedtime stories like Bedtime for Frances. I just can’t get over how well Tommy goes to bed after some quality Daddy-Tommy time!
The Big Picture Story Bible
Posted in Children's Books on Mar 3rd, 2009
I was going to let Derek do this post eventually since he is the spiritual head of our household, but when Christina blogged about Geneva’s children’s Bible and asked what the rest of us were using, I decided it was time for me to share (and maybe have him follow up later)! First of all, let me […]