Role Play

Maia has been attending Music Together since she was four months old. Stella and Elsie have been going with us since birth…they were three weeks old when the Fall session started last year. The current session is the best so far as all three girls are having a blast playing with music and each other. [...]

The Birds and The Bees (part one)

I made pancakes for dinner last night, always a crowd pleaser on a Friday night. Well, almost always. Sitting at the dinner table Maia and Elise were enjoying the bounty but Stella was refusing to eat them. What? I wondered out loud where Stella had come from…my daughter not eating pancakes? After looking at her, [...]

Maia’s World

Maia has become just a tiny bit balloon obsessed lately. She loves them, uses them as her babies, names them (which is new) and just wants them with her always. Especially if they happen to be orange. Maia has also started drawing pictures of her world. The other day she drew some big slide looking [...]

Be Waary Quiet, I’m Hunting Wabbits

I made lovely biscuits along with dinner tonight, and after insisting that she didn’t like biscuits Maia couldn’t get enough of them. She had eaten most of her dinner and was longing for just one more biscuit–they live in the biscuit house, you know–and I gave in and let her go choose another to share. [...]

She’s a baby!

Stella has developed a habit of yelling loudly when she has dispatched all the food placed in front of here and wants more.  We are constantly trying to get her to use sign language for “more” and “food” in hopes this will give her a less nerve-grating alternative to get her point across. The kids [...]

A toddler’s idealized timeout

Finally working through some older pictures, and came across this from 9 months ago: Apparently, Maia’s dolls were being naughty. A toddler’s life is so tough — the whole world to learn about and interact with, yet, so little that they are actually allowed to control. So, she turns to her toys to show them [...]

Some Notes on Maia’s Friend: ‘O’

We had established some basics about Maia’s friend ‘O’ but as time goes on and she becomes a more permanent guest the details are being fleshed out. For example, while we knew ‘O’ was a girl, it had also been learned that ‘O’s favorite color is blue and that her hair is blue too. ‘O’ [...]

You’re What?

Maia woke up on June 2 and began climbing down her ladder while I was getting the babies out of bed. “Maia,” I asked, “How old are you today?” Without hesitation her reply, “I’m three” with the fingers held up for emphasis. Oh yes, you certainly are. (tin roof…rusted)

Rules of the road

Over the last few weeks, Maia has become quite the backseat driver.  She’s well versed on the 3 colors of traffic lights and is quick to observe that the light has turned green and we need to go!  She’s especially fond of the left turn arrows, since those are usually mounted down low on the [...]

Moosey, new vs old

Maia had a grape snack after she awoke this morning. While I was making pancakes and Maia was sitting up on the counter helping/watching, she suddenly started coughing and then she holds Moosey up to her mouth as a feeble attempt to keep from vomiting. It didn’t work. I managed to get her into the [...]