Jimbo, for his part, was extremely tolerant of the toddler and seemed to think he was a variety of small dog
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Jimbo, for his part, was extremely tolerant of the toddler and seemed to think he was a variety of small dog
he doesn’t say “dada” or his big brother’s name but he learned “Jimbo”. The past few days he has been saying “Jimbo! Woof woof!” at odd intervals. This dog might be his favorite person
this past weekend my 2 year old formed an indelible bond with my cousin-in-law’s dog Jimbo
as someone who did many of these days while my husband was in medical residency: best move is some sort of adventure that’s also an opportunity for you to hang with another adult. second best move is a simple home day with minimal cooking and a lot of outdoor time
we went to a lake this weekend and I think the toddler is going to run away to become a sea captain
annual reminder
my husband did residency training in a rural area that was attracting lots of these types and it kind of skewed the local economy - it drove up housing costs bc these people could pay top dollar, but it didn’t create more jobs bc everyone was working elsewhere
bless
I had this one!!! One of my absolute favorites. Thank you for reminding me of it, my boys definitely need a copy
It do be exactly like that
had no idea GK would have dominated the curly hair forums
M O O D
so many things are possible when your children are older than two. Unfortunately
It will be! When they’re not two anymore!
See also, a last name field with no special characters and no capital letters allowed…
when I was a child I would give what I thought were the “ugly” forks to my sisters if we were mad at each other
milestone: 4 year old has preferred patterns among our motley collection of silverware (“I just like the square ones, mom”)
me: the boys just need a couple library books this time, we didn’t bring all of them back also me:
reading on the porch with a donut. Sunday’s Delight
I should have been on this grind like a month ago…learn from my mistakes
something I didn’t anticipate about having a kid about to start preschool is that every other parent with a kid about to start school would have checked out all the best books about preparing for school from the library
drinking this is like diving into a cold clear lake
cracking open a cold one after a long day
today’s mood: this picture of “a yell” drawn by my 4 year old
due to never knowing where the library will shelve something my move is always to have the library catalog open on my phone and search author/title names and then see where they are. If I’m really on top of it I’ll do this before I go to the library and put requests on the ones they don’t have
I’ve been reading some of this newsletter about picture books written by two contemporary picture book authors/illustrators and it’s really helped me understand picture books in ways I didn’t before. This one has a great discussion on early readers lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/p/go-dog-go
more of this and less of 12 year olds skating to some sexy song
when I can tell before I read it that the article will make me feel bad but I click on it anyway
Thank you!
Thank you!!
uwu thank you!! Hard to believe!
I’m so glad we went ahead and got married even though only 6 people could be there and we couldn’t do 90% of the stuff we planned. It was still a beautiful day that I look back on fondly, but more than that, I would much rather have been married all this time than have had to wait
happy fifth anniversary to me!! I love this photo my friend who was cantoring took from the back of the choir loft
4 year old referred to Clorox wipes as “disaffecting wipes”
when I get my period
this is where i'm at mentally these days
It seemed pretty similar to other ones I’ve used before, but maybe the melted chocolate helped stabilize it? The whole thing was good, I recommend: www.600acres.com/blog/2019/2/...
I clicked through to the expanded blog post and discovered that a mom (or possibly just any married woman?) having a job is also worse than being in debt, which is of course why she gives away her set of books for free. [Googles quickly] oh they’re $70? I see
a birthday cake for my husband with the best buttercream I’ve ever made…too bad it’s mid 80s and humid and will immediately wilt 😭
my 4 year old is leaving behind a lot of his cutest mispronunciations but he did say the other day that he was going to “curdle up” on the couch
very important FB memory from 2017 today
Told the four year old that when he was 6 or 7 I would teach him to use the box cutter and now he’s just going around telling me “I’m six now”
E: I love the concept and think it’s just what we need but am having a hard time figuring out what it means for me as a regular catholic in a regular American city and not a person who will be going to Rome or on a pilgrimage
I used to combine the two by going to a tiny little pizza place that mainly did takeout and sitting in their one booth with my crush
Do you follow baseball? Do you not follow baseball? It does not matter. Please listen to Phillies announcer John Kruk, with the team up by ten runs and not much happening, talking about what he learned at the Franklin Institute. You will not be sorry.
some phases of infant/toddler linguistic development: -the Beach Boys phase (baby starts to say “ba, ba, ba”) -the Beastie Boys phase (baby/toddler repeats the words they know loudly and emphatically once you finish your sentence)
some phases of infant/toddler linguistic development: -the Beach Boys phase (baby starts to say “ba, ba, ba”) -the Beastie Boys phase (baby/toddler repeats the words they know loudly and emphatically once you finish your sentence)
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🙏 I use olive oil (and avocado oil!) in cakes all the time and can never tell so hopefully no one will be the wiser…the two competing bake times is extremely cursed tho
my sister and I saw the 2011 Winnie the Pooh in theaters and were the only people over 18 not accompanied by kids. When eeyore sings “found an anchor over there/now it’s on my derrière” we found it hilarious but it went over the heads of the children lol
the amount of times this has happened to my children…
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when you hit this speed bump your legs fly out from under you and you land flat on your back
if anyone has any good weaning tips for a toddler who is getting all of their nutrition from food and is completely fine when I’m not around but insists on nursing when I’m there…I’m all ears
the toddler is extremely attached to nursing but I am Done, so I am weaning him by reducing the length of his nursing session by one minute every week. going to market this to moms as the Zeno’s Arrow Method
my 21 month old has about 40 words and one of them is “jamb” because he loves the book “jamberry” so much and always wants us to read it
I could literally do this all day, if you ever want any more please hit me up. There are plenty of dreadful children’s books but I’ve been pleasantly surprised at how many great ones are still out there kicking around. I tend to be suspicious of newer books but I’ve found great new ones too!
A friend of ours introduced us to the Sato the Rabbit series, translated from Japanese, very soothing and quirky. Don and Audrey Wood are GOATs for silly books (King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub, Silly Sally, the Napping House)
Gail Gibbons has a million well illustrated and very informative nonfiction books about scientific and natural history topics (fruits, veggies, spiders, frogs…) Lois Elhert does lovely collage and paper cut illustrations (try “Planting a Rainbow”, “Eating the Alphabet”, or “Feathers for Lunch”)
everyone knows and loves “The Snowy Day” but Ezra Jack Keats also did a fun series about a kid named Peter (“Whistle for Willie”, “Peter’s Chair”, “Hi, Cat”). Similarly everyone knows Carl the dog but Alexandra Day also did a series called Frank and Ernest where an elephant and bear have jobs
Donald Crews does incredible and beautifully designed books about vehicles (try “Freight Train”, “Truck”, “Parade”, “Harbor”). Byron Barton has striking illustrations and great story sense (“My Car” has a great twist, we also love “Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones” and “Machines at Work”)
amazing! over here it’s cold soba noodles with chicken and peanut sauce, something with this leftover pork I have (workshopping it still), egg roll in a bowl, kebabs with roasted veggies, sautéed tomatoes with white beans and parm and crusty bread. but it’s farm box week so I may go rogue
I thought when the world got back to “normal” I would be furiously jealous of everyone having regular bachelorettes and weddings, and sometimes I do have pangs of regret, but I was so loved and celebrated even without anyone’s in-person presence that I don’t think about it sadly
the other day was the 5th anniversary of my Covidtide virtual bachelorette party, where we watched Clueless together over zoom and my friend made a slideshow that included this incredible image
happy blueberry cobbler for dinner day to all who celebrate
my annual wearing of my Yuzuru Hanyu 2018 Olympic parade shirt
ok my phone did something weird here, ignore the repeated “something different” at the end of the post. was trying to say the wise parent ignores the screeching inner voice that says “you will never be or do enough for your child” and listens to the quieter voice of actual conscience
once you have a child, no matter what you are doing, a little gremlin inside your head is telling you that you should be doing something different…every day you must kill the gremlin so you can make actual reasonable judgements about what you are and should be doing something different
this is your summertime reminder that you can sing the Sesame Street “rubber duckie” song to the tune of “surfer girl” by The Beach Boys and vice versa
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BLT and a beer, the perfect mid-July dinner
my favorite part of managing family life is deciding how to mark the little minor holidays and occasions that mean nothing to anyone outside this household. how do we reward achievement in swim lessons? what do we eat for dinner when my husband takes a big exam? nothing is more fun to decide
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you're gonna wanna see this
at that point in my life I went to bed around 1 and woke up around 10, so this was a genuine feat for me. still funny tho
when I had to do a big project in college I used to do something I called “pulling a reverse all-nighter”, where I went to bed at 10 and woke up at 6 to work. I was so proud of this “hack”, not realizing I had simply invented the normal adult workday
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Every British person on the internet is complaining about you
running for office on the platform of “deal with your own beans”
as someone who nearly gave herself carpal tunnel writing down all the books I read for summer reading as a child, I love that most libraries have moved away from that model and are focusing on “check off the days you read”. Great for kids who read too much AND for kids who don’t churn through books!
I love this content. We’re doing larb, kielbasa with a million fresh veggies, Spanish tortilla, chicken stir fry, and salmon with dill
Global Ranking xkcd.com/3110/
![4-panel comic. (1) [Person 2 with white hat stands behind Person 1 who is seated at desk with laptop] PERSON 1: I’m ranked 7,145,000th globally on this chess platform. It’s hard to be ranked that low in *any* activity. (2) PERSON 1: Few pastimes even *have* 7 million rated players. Until the internet, it wasn’t really possible. You could be this bad, but only unofficially. (3) PERSON 1: So in a sense, I’m worse at chess than anyone was at *anything* for most of human history. PERSON 2: Why are you still doing it? (4) PERSON 1: Well, no human has ever had this many friends to play with. PERSON 2: That person is calling you some very obscene names. PERSON 1: Our friendship is complicated.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreibttiz6nmqpook66kcfxofvchkxnjfuc3n5gthpsjnj6wyhmnz27q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Scathing words for Trump's, Vance's, & Republicans' bill from the very conservative President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. www.usccb.org/news/2025/us...
This thing is as large as I remember my newborn children being
hey anybody need some Napa cabbage I think I can spare some
looooove this book but I do laugh when they say the subway smells like “shoes and cinnamon”. boy I wish any public transit system I had ever taken smelled that good
it’s gotta be extra tough for them because as twins they have learned the delight of socializing from a much younger age than your average kid. don’t worry lads the rest of your age group will catch up soon
my oldest has been super social from a young age and used to get either rebuffed or babied at the playground by older kids. Now that he’s talkative this problem has completely disappeared and it’s now a regular social interaction entirely managed by him!
I do find that a lot of elementary aged kids can be kind of weird towards friendly younger toddlers, likely because they never interact with toddlers regularly and just don’t know what to do (they have no sibs, their school is super age-segregated…) They seem to just feel awkward and unsure
so now it’s in our upstairs closet. you guys will all have to help me remember this in like 3 years
today’s mom win was finding a pristine copy of Dinotopia for 50 cents at the friends of the library store, then purchasing it and getting it home without the 4 year old seeing. He’ll love it when he’s 7 or 8 but he’s not ready for it now - but how often do you find a deal like this?
Ruth Goodman is a historian who does living re-enactments and has a couple of fun books on what certain eras were like - How to be a Tudor and How to be a Victorian are both really interesting, lots of detail on what it would have been like as a regular person in those times. Audiobooks on hoopla!
we eventually convinced him by telling him that BABY rabbits drink milk
the 4 year old informed us at dinner that he couldn’t drink his milk because he was “a rabbit” and “rabbits hate milk”
LMAO owned
incredible work 10/10. (The 4 year old and I were playing “naptime” and after several rounds of our best fake snores the toddler was like “okay I think I’ve figured this out”)
the toddler can’t say “Mama,” “Dada,” “yes”, “no”, or “up”, but he just figured out how to fake snore. no notes
pause your scrolling and bide a moment, weary poster
“thank you for demonstrating that you possess accurate personal information about me I guess”
when your dentist wishes you a happy birthday…thanks I guess