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pretzel patterns: learning during snacktime
November 15, 2012 3 comments

pretzel patterns: learning during snacktime

It’s been crazy over here for the past few weeks, with nutty, awful weather, with colds and stomach bugs, lots of late meetings, and lots of end-of-season hurrahs. So our ...

quick trick: keep. those. LIDS!
April 2, 2012 5 comments

quick trick: keep. those. LIDS!

How many of you have recycle bins that are nearly overflowing by the end of the week? I know ours is, despite all of the recyclables that I ‘rescue’ for ...

new for us friday: LeapFrog Peek-A-Shoe Octopus (& giveaway!)
November 26, 2011 47 comments

new for us friday: LeapFrog Peek-A-Shoe Octopus (& giveaway!)

As much as I have had a ton of success with LeapFrog products and love nearly everything LeapFrog, I knew that I needed to outsource a bit when it came ...

candy experiments: playing with color
November 6, 2011 1 comment

candy experiments: playing with color

It’s been a busy few weeks for us, between school, sports, Blogalicious, Halloween, and my parents coming down to spend time with the kids while I attended the NAEYC conference ...

fun with food: learning in the kitchen with kids
August 31, 2011 28 comments

fun with food: learning in the kitchen with kids

Over the last few years, we’ve had a ton of fun with food over here.  I love food, my kids love food, my husband loves food, and we all really ...

colors in a jar
September 29, 2009 5 comments

colors in a jar

It’s a rainbow of colors around here–between the end-of-summer flowers still desperately hanging on and the leaves beginning to change, it’s gorgeous. So I thought I’d put to use some ...

pop beads
May 18, 2009 3 comments

pop beads

Maddy received this awesome set of Pop Beads by Parents as a gift this past year, and we’ve been using them more lately to (secretly) work on everyone’s (okay, Owen’s) ...