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Posted in Daily Ramblings, Rugrats on Jul 21st, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Summer vacation is half over and it’s sent me into a bit of a panic. I haven’t done half of the stuff I was excited to do with the kids while school was out. To help me get organized, yesterday I offered seven great things to do around the Seattle area before Labor Day that [...]
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Rugrats on Jul 14th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Today was a special day. I have Wednesdays off and am loving being home with the kids one day a week, especially in the summer. We get to do stuff when everyone else is at work. It’s like my mini-SAHM experience, without the Prozac (meaning if I was a SAHM I’d most likely need it [...]
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Photography, Rugrats on Jul 11th, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Hello all. I’m back, officially. Yesterday’s post was written before vacation, so I really did stay true to my word. I had a vacation.
This year vacation was so different. Usually vacations are filled with packing up and going somewhere, but this time we had very little in the way of plans. In fact, I made [...]
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Rugrats on Jul 1st, 2010 | 16 Comments »
You are my sunshine, my only sunshine…
I used to sing this to my pooch, because he was what I looked forward to seeing when I woke up and when I got home from work. I’d not go far or to places where pets weren’t allowed on weekends so we could spend them [...]
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Positive Discipline, Rugrats on Jun 25th, 2010 | 12 Comments »
If you’ve been reading Heligirl for any amount of time, you know I’m a huge believer in positive discipline and doing all I can to work with my kids rather than punish them when they misbehave. More often than not I feel like I’m stumbling in the dark and crashing into some rather fragile things. [...]
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Rugrats on Jun 24th, 2010 | 27 Comments »
My 2 ½ year old is a total and complete control freak. She must have full control over every last detail of every thing lately, down to coming into the room and demanding that I uncross my legs. And if control is not hers? Oh may God have mercy on your soul as she will [...]
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Photography, Rugrats on Jun 23rd, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Every so often, you come across toys in precarious situations and no children about. I usually grab a shot, but often all hell breaks loose before I have time to post or tweet them. So here they are, for your viewing pleasure:
And a favorite of mine, even though this does include children. I must admit, [...]
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Helicopters, Rugrats on Jun 22nd, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Each year for five years I’ve worked with a dedicated group of Whirly-Girls, the Museum of Flight, and a slew of great volunteers to put on a free helicopter and public service event in June. This year’s show was last Saturday.
It’s a ton of work, a lot of cat herding and quite a bit of [...]
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Rugrats on Jun 12th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Mr. Man has been on solid food for seven months, but until recently didn’t show any interest in feeding himself. I’ve been at a loss as Sweetness was grabbing the spoon to guide it to her mouth within a couple of months of solid food and was stuffing finger food in her mouth in short [...]
Posted in Daily Ramblings, Photography, Rugrats on Jun 9th, 2010 | 10 Comments »
Now for something completely different. I recently took Mr. Man to a research study at the University of Washington’s child development lab. At the end of the 45 minute study, he was presented with a box of toys. He could choose one as his thank you gift. He chose this little toy camera toy that [...]