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Time Out v. Green Beans

Despite plans for a different post, after a long week of challenging parenting, the story of dinner tonight trumps all that.  For various reasons, mostly surrounding Gabriel being unwell, this was a very rough week on the parenting front.  In addition to being exhausted and emotionally drained, we still have a very healthy rambunctious 2 [...]

Recommended Reading: 10-24-11

Ok, so it is mostly on a theme but this goat milk thing is big for us, check out these articles:

Heath News – NZ (New Zealand) – Goat’s Milk

Dr Sears Site – Goat Milk

Dr Sears weighs in again at Parenting – Advantages of Goats Milk

Goat’s Milk Formula @ Passionate Homemaking

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Day Camping

Did you go to day camp when you were young?  It is a term I haven’t heard in a long time but I remember going to two different day camps as a kid and they were pretty good times.  The one had a pool and horses and a nature trail, that plus lunch took up [...]

Finding Balance

I love seeing what new element of physics Dante is exploring.  For awhile it was gravity, of course. (“Does this toy hit the floor if I let go?” Yes. Every time.)  Velocity was in there too, as were pretty much all the properties of water.  (Dinner time is discovery time.)  All three of Newton’s Laws [...]

Babies are for Sharing

This weekend I thought back to a conversation I had with a friend around the time of Gabriel’s birth.  I had made some comment to the effect that I wished she could hold him and in reply she told me about a new mom she knows with a 6 month old baby who doesn’t let [...]