Benjamin wanted to play the Clickstart game we had brought over on our last trip to the house. I went to hook it up only to find we had left the power cord behind. I explained all this to him, but he still proceeded with, “But I *waaaaannnnnt* to play...
Levi is such a tactile little boy. He mushes his food. He tears paper. He eats dirt. And sand. And mulch. He pushes and shoves and bites and hits and takes what he wants. He spends half his day in time out. He’s definitely action-oriented. He’s a smart...
Sometimes it seems I only post the bad parts of my day. The melodramaticness of this morning passed rather quickly after I posted about it. We went inside. Benjamin put his hangers in his shirts and then whined about going outside, which I told him was out of the...
Like when I tell my 5yo to look at the overcast covering of clouds and she says, “I do not see any clouds.” I give up. When my 3yo says he’d rather sit on the living room floor staring at the wall than put hangers in shirts so he can come join us...
Sometimes my kids do things that just make me want to cry. This afternoon, for example, Benjamin (who is almost four) threw my kitchen timer on the floor. I didn’t see the first throw; I figured someone had simply dropped something. I was curious when I heard...
