My boys love fruit. When the box of Lil Snappers fruit arrived I unpacked the contents and left it on the kitchen table. Soon after the boys discovered the haul of fruit they devoured 2 mandarin oranges and an apple, each! I had to move the fruit to higher ground so they wouldn’t spoil their…
Now your little ones can eat breakfast with Elmo and Cookie Monster. Post and Sesame Street have teamed up to create the ultimate toddler breakfast. The new Post Sesame Street Cereal comes in two subtle flavors, Apple and Banana and is made from whole grain and only 1 gram of sugar per serving. The X…
I like mushrooms. This wasn’t always the case, up until about 2 months ago I detested mushrooms. Primarily it was the chewy texture that grossed me out. But when we did our Whole30 Challenge in January I vowed to try as many new foods as possible, even mushrooms. We encourage our kids to try new…
Easter baskets filled with candy mean sugar-loaded kids bouncing off the walls, so let’s replace some of that candy with books. Billy Bunny and the Butterflies Billy Bunny and the Butterflies by Maurice Pledger is a beautifully illustrated flap book about a little bunny searching for butterflies. Noah really loves to help me identify all…
I’m so blessed to have kids that like vegetables and eat them willingly, most of the time. On occasion they refuse to eat their veggies and try to pull out the “picky eater”. In our house you have to try everything on your plate no matter how many previous times you’ve tried the same food….
We’ve always read to Jude, mostly short board books. But recently I thought he might be interested in longer stories so I brought out some of my favorite Roald Dahl kid’s books. We started reading a few short chapters a night and he was instantaneously hooked. We started with George’s Marvelous Medicine and afterward I…
Friday Night Jude and I went on a special Mother/Son Date night to the theater. We got dressed up and went downtown to the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium to see the special production of Rapunzel! Storybook Theater a new partnership with the Duke Energy Center for Performing Arts brings to life four favorite children’s tales –…