A couple weeks ago we got a game with 3D glasses and a workbook with objects to find in a Chick-Fil-A kids meal.  The kids enjoyed playin...

  Today I am participating in a guest blogger series on teaching your children to read on Life & Lessons from a Country Road .   In m...

The twins are 3.5 years old.  I hope some readers have stuck around through my blogging hiatus this month.  We're moving (again) so A...

Baby H is 18 months old.  I haven't been keeping up with taking photos of all our learning activities and explorations lately, but I r...

My kids absolutely love snacks that they can make themselves, and this apple peanut butter crunch do-it-yourself snack fits the bill perfe...

  L and E are 3.5 years old.  If you follow this blog and have been wondering what has happened to my plan of doing a book-related acti...

When the girls saw Rainbow Toast in their Highlights High Five Magazine (back-issue from 2007 from Ebay), they begged me to let them try i...

It snowed this past weekend, but instead of bundling the kids up in layers upon layers of winter clothing, I decided to bring the snow ...

Rainbows seem to be a popular theme in March for St. Patrick's Day, so today the girls and I joined in the fun and made our own paper ...

I like to take a break from blogging on the weekends so I can spend time with my kids.  We haven't been slacking on our book-a-day c...

L and E are 3.5 years old.  The whole family is now feeling better after nearly a month of being sick with various colds, so we're bac...

Aren't these straw toppers / puppets adorable?  Our book of the day was Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle, and ...

Like yesterday's selection, today's book is a vocabulary-builder as well: Fancy Nancy at the Museum by Jane O'Connor.  The Fa...

I read somewhere that children's book authors are sent a list of words (mostly sight-words) that they are 'allowed' to use i...

Today's book of the day was Five Creatures by Emily Jenkins.  It's a fun book about a family with five creatures (a girl, her par...

In celebration of the birthday of Dr. Seuss on March 2nd, I thought I'd put together a little roundup of the activities we've don...

Today's "Book of the Day" was The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson.  I love the rhythm of Donaldson's books and t...

March is National Reading Month and we're going to celebrate by trying to do a book-related activity every day.  It may be as simple a...

H is 17 months old.  I have to gush about the photo above - aren't those sweet little hands just the cutest?  The learning spurt is st...

I am very excited to be part of the Booking Across the USA project hosted by Growing Book by Book.  Today I am joining over 50 other blog...