Wordless Wednesday: Dance!

Delia with Scarves

Delia in orange monkey pants, Elsie in red pants, Emma in way too many hot layers for a warm day, ha ha!

Thanks to Jenna @ Gildenfire Dance for all the awesomeness.  We love it!

Linking up with Natural Parents Network, 5 Minutes for Mom & A [...]

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Butterfly in the Sky: Raising Butterflies!

Butterfly wonder

This post originally ran on August 3rd, 2010.  I am rerunning it because I am planning to start this project a little earlier this year — Elsie and Delia’s birthday party next week is going to be loosely based on the “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, so I think it’s time to order our caterpillars!

A few [...]

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Just a Balloon…

KONICA MINOLTA DIGITAL CAMERA

Recently I found an old pack of balloons sitting around.

The enthusiasm and joy was palpable as I blew them up.  And when the girls realized there were three of them!

They were really surprised at the difference between these balloons and [...]

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Idea List for Toddler & Preschooler Activity Bags

Just picture this made out of smaller branches, all fitting in a ziplock bag...

After my activity bag post ran recently over on The Natural Parents Network, I was inspired by others forming swaps to give it a go again, this time with my local Attachement Parenting group.  This is my first time organizing, though I’ve participated in two other swaps with folks online.  We had enough interest to [...]

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Activity Bag Fun: Flubber!

When I was in high school, I was required to do volunteer in the school or community a certain number of hours a year.  I chose to volunteer at OMSI, the local science museum, every Sunday morning —  a very chill time in terms of number of visitors, most of the time.  I worked in [...]

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Toddler and Preschooler Activity Bag Fun!

Toddler and Preschooler Activity Bags

Oh, activity bags, how I love thee, let me count the ways….

I first discovered the concept of activity bags around the time my twins were born.  We had JUST moved, I was hugely pregnant, on bed-rest for awhile, then tending to two newborns who were nursing around the clock and mostly only sleeping in arms. [...]

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