The “This is ________” series of books by Miroslav Sasek are sweet reminders of how beautiful and truly precious a simple children’s book can be! Many of the books in the series have been reissued in the past few years by popular demand as well!
Along with just being a fun way to share [...]
On Friday night, I spent my first day/night away from Miss L since she was born. On Saturday, it was my second day/night away. And on Sunday night, I returned home to a sleeping baby and Mr. M happily relaxing with some video games and a Morimoto Soba Ale.
People are always shocked to [...]
What do we have here??? New books on my bookshelf?
Let’s see if we can fold them… yup!
And shake them? And eat them? Yes???
What kind of books are these???
Those would be the awesome Indestructible books that we got from
We have had lots of friends teach their children signs as babies and infants. And the second that I saw a 15 month old sign “potty” to his Dad so that he knew to change his diaper, I was so sold! Giving kids a language when word mastery is still developing is insanely valuable, especially [...]
We may not have had roast pork… but we did have lots of aloha spirit and luau decorations in the house for Miss L’s first birthday party!
“Hau’oli la hanau” Happy birthday! (And yes… both of those [...]
I’m going to present to you a scenario… and I’d like to see what your reaction/response is… because it’s a moral dilemma that occupies too much of heart some days.
This is a crude diagram of the daycare center’s parking lot:
The three spots labeled with the BLUE H’s are handicapped spots.
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Today, Nordstrom launched it’s collaboration with Disney inspired by “it’s a small world” and Mary Blair’s amazing art! The first collection, ‘Japanese Spring’ is in stores and online today, followed by ‘Indian Summer’ in June, ‘Scottish Fall’ for September, and ‘Russian Holiday’ in November. Each collection includes items priced from $18 [...]
I’m really not quite sure you ever fit in your dad’s arms like this. It seems like I just dreamed it… and a year ago was just a memory of fantasy. You’ve been a wonderful baby, and we’ve loved to see you grow through all of each of your stages with amazement.
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I sat down to write a list at 3 months of what baby gear had been working for us, and then I abruptly stopped. If I wasn’t sleeping in more than 4 hour intervals, I definitely couldn’t tell you what was working for us let alone advise you to go and get it!
So I [...]
Someone asked for a list of things I wish I knew before Baby M ever came around, or things I wish someone had told me. Here’s my thinking list… (disclosure: this is my personal list of wishes… and totally not applicable to everyone or maybe anyone but me… but here it is…)
Pregnancy:
I wish [...]
Baby M is addicted to kids music. I mean, she loves music in general, but she is somehow insanely perky when a “kids” song pops on the radio. I’m not sure if it’s because they play a lot of music in her daycare class and have dance sessions every afternoon, but there’s something she truly [...]
So here I was about to post a picture of Baby M’s 1st birthday invitations, when I suddenly remembered I forgot to share something from CHRISTMAS.
Yeah… Christmas. Forgive me?
Here was our 2010 family card (sorry for the scanning quality):
This year’s card theme was Mr. M’s holiday duty. The original [...]
