Family
Got Stuck
While Marissa and Katie have largely outgrown theirs, Claire is now in the throes of a major sticker fetish. We’ve got a drawer in the kitchen for coloring books and another for stickers. From the first drawer, Claire will take a piece of printer paper, recycled from our computer’s printer, and put stickers from the […]
Subliminal Attraction
Last night we watched the city fireworks from a park close to the park where they were being set off. There was a slight treeline problem for some of the low fireworks, but the park we viewed them from was much less crowded and escaping the parking lot when they were over was much easier. […]
Horse Camp
Tomorrow is the start of Katie’s week of Horse Camp at Autumn Rose Farm. It is taught by Ohio State’s Equestrian Team. Horselover that she is, she has been looking forward to it for weeks, but at dinner today she was in a funk. She announced that she no longer liked horses and no longer […]
Keeping her distance
We have bazillions of friends who have adopted from China, but we only know a handful (ok two handfuls) of Columbus families with kids from Vietnam. A few of the families decided to meet for lunch Saturday at the Asian Festival. Unfortunately the various family schedules didn’t overlap that well, so we each ate on […]
Red Alert
When I was in diapers (in my pre-blogging days), they were cloth. My girls never had an option, disposables are too convenient. They can absorb a ton nowadays and still feel pretty dry. And that is the problem. There is no motivation for toddlers to toilet train themselves. Slowly over the years, the average age […]
Lunchtime options
My standard lunchtime routine is to eat 20 crackers and an apple at my desk while surfing a little. Sad, I know. But today I had a second lunchtime option: Play soccer with my co-workers. They are all about half my age, and when I play with them, I feel even older. So that wasn’t […]
The Fearless One
Last January, Marissa’s 7th birthday party was at the Dublin Rec Center pool. It has a giant indoor slide. Marissa, at 4’1″, was tall enough to go on it. Most of her birthday guests were as well. Even though she is a good swimmer, 3’5″ Katie wasn’t allowed on the slide. To their credit, the […]
Non-skid Lilypad
A few months ago Claire slipped getting out of the bathtub. As a dutiful mother, Chris went out and got four 6-inch, rubber, suction cup-bottomed micro-mats that will prevent the girls from slipping while in the tub. Two are in the shape of green frogs and other two are matching lilypads. Here is a picture […]
A delicate one
On this dreary afternoon, we took the girls to Chapungu at the Franklin Park Conservatory. In addition to the stone sculpture the girls were largely disinterested in, the greenhouse gardens had their annual butterfly show. While Marissa was uncharacteristically frightened of them, Katie tried to catch one. After a few failed attempts, she succeeded. Seven […]