Sleep… beautiful sleep. Nothing is sweeter than a sleeping baby. And nothing can be more challenging than a baby that won’t sleep. I would have given anything for a few extra minutes of sleep when Jude was a baby. Naively I just assumed my baby would be the world’s most awesome sleeper. HA! I didn’t…
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…
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…
Jude likes books a lot but he really LOVES pop-up/interactive books like HOW DO YOU FEED A HUNGRY GIANT by Caitlin Freedman and illustrated by Shaw Nielson. This is a fun book about a little boy named Oscar that befriends a hungry giant. The story is about a little boy helping to feed a lonely,…
Jude has always been an out-going child which is surprising since both Joe and I are somewhat shy introverted people. So we seldom had to deal with any separation anxiety until he turned 20 months old. The more aware he became of his surrounding the more cautious he became. I was surprise by this…
