I love to play board games with Maya while her baby sister is napping. It’s a great way to spend quality one-on-one time together. Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders are two of our favorites. Being able to reinforce counting and color recognition and teach her social skills, like taking turns and good sportsmanship, all […]
Toys
Delight in a Dumpster
My husband found this fabulous drum set in a dumpster outside one of his work sites. Everything was intact and in good condition, albeit with a few small scratches here and there, which most likely resulted from being thrown into the garbage in the first place! Both M&M absolutely love these drums! Maya plays them […]
Taking daddy’s car out for a spin
Maya’s taken over her dad’s remote control Mercedes. I gave it to him for Christmas two years ago, he toyed around with it a for a few days after, and it’s been sitting on a shelf gathering dust ever since. It wasn’t until this past week that she discovered that her Little People fit perfectly […]
Slipping ‘n sliding
There’s a “heat watch” in effect this entire weekend, with record high temperatures expected. Heat indices could approach 110 degrees! Definitely not typical weather for early June in the DC area. Just last week I was complaining about how it was too cool for the girls to play in the sprinkler, and now it may […]
Hola Jalapeño and Mañana Iguana – 2 favorite children’s books!
I should’ve posted this in the previous entry about Cinco de Mayo, but I forgot. I forget oh-so-many things these days! In any case, it’s never too late to recommend a good book. The following are two of my daughter’s favorites, and just happen to be Latin-themed. Mañana Iguana, by Ann Whitford Paul and illustrated […]
