Today’s is Gareth’s 5th birthday. He’s come a long way from his struggles with eczema, asthma and allergies as an infant. He’s healthier and happier at 5 then I ever could have imagined back then. Here’s some pics of Gareth first 5 years: Newborn, then eczema baby in his jolly jumper at 6 months. [...]
Here’s some of the picture books we’ve read over the past week, as well as reading though the classic chapter book, Stuart Little. Hover your mouse over the image for title and author details. Hide and Snake is a simple “can you find me?” book, in a which a colourful snakes hides among yarn, garden [...]
One of our goals for Daegan this year, as odd as it may seem, is to give him opportunities to handle frustration. Not create opportunities artificially—being a 7-year-old boy with a younger brother these frustrating moments come easily enough—but after doing some reflecting on my parenting, I realized I was “rescuing” him or the situation [...]
Like many parents, Sunday was Jim’s last day of holidays, so he took the boys skating in the morning. The boys are in fact signed up for skating lessons Sunday mornings, and everything was all set to start, except the folks running the program forgot to tell the skating coach that the first lesson was [...]
I gave the boys the same questions last year; here’s their thoughts as of 2010. DAEGAN, AGE 7.5 Favourites: Cereal – Fruity Cheerios vegetable – cauliflower drink – homemade fizzy drinks (juice and club soda) toy – dinosaur figurines TV Show – Dinosaur Train game – Professor Noggin’s Dinosaur (trivia/knowledge) cards book – any BIG [...]