Learned from observing the expert millipede rescuer, Ms. Crazy Preschooler: 1. Search all the corners of the basement until you find a somewhat squished millipede that can move, but only slightly because you don’t want it to move too much. Millipedes that move too much are not only startling, but…

Because of the amazing summer weather we had last weekend, the big activity at our house was playing Stew Shop. Ms. Crazy Preschooler was the chief cook. She gave extensive orders to her assistant, Mr. Perpetual Mess, and together they cooked up some amazing mud concoctions, like this lovely “chocolate…

At our favorite park, just off the bike path, is this wonderful fire truck set up on springs. It jiggles when you step and jump, and results in hours of fun and imagination.

The joys of early spring! Even though this winter was pathetically mild, it is still so wonderful when the very first bulbs peek out of the ground. Every thing is so brown and dead when the snow melts that I even get excited about the first green weeds peeping through…

There is just something special about babies from ages 4-10 months for me. I love this Banana so much somedays that I want 12 more. (No Mom, I’m not going to have 12 more).

. There are no bumps to suggest impending teeth yet, but The Banana has taken up the recent hobby of chewing anything she can grab, and if she can’t grab anything there’s always her shirt, and better yet, her thumb inside her shirt

I love being a piano teacher. I really, really do. Yesterday at 5:00 my student jumped out of his family’s Surburban and raced up my front steps, unzipped his backpack with gusto and said in a loud, vibrant voice, “You’ll NEVER guess what my grandma sent me in a box!”…

Ms. Crazy Preschooler has been busy with mud. I gave her permission to play in my flower pots since I have to empty them of mud before we move anyway. She’s taken to replanting last year’s freeze dried flowers and watering them profusely. She can’t quite figure out why they…

The Banana loves jumping. She likes it so much she can’t stop when she’s in her jumping seat. She can’t stop even if she’s tired, even if she’s screaming, even if she doesn’t want to jump any more. So after awhile, I just simply have to remove her.