In the spirit of Everything Educational Thursday, I wanted to post about the website, Starfall. It has online abc games, videos that Becca loves to watch. It uses a phonics approach to reading, simple pictures and lots of repetition. Becca will echo the songs being song and will yell, “mas! mas!” when [...]
Entries from May 2008
May 21, 2008
Everything Educational Thursday
Jen and I would like to introduce “Everything Educational Thursday.” The idea started because I have been posting about Becca becoming Bilingual and had decided to post something about language development (and specifically bilingual language development) each week which would naturally turn into discussions about her reading/writing in English/Spanish. Since both Jen and [...]
May 21, 2008
How Much is that Girlie in the Window?
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Mary Kate
May 19, 2008
Happy 95th Birthday, Grandma!
My family had a family BBQ to celebrate my Grandmother’s 95th birthday this past weekend. It ended up being a beautiful day at my Aunt’s house which meant that Becca had a chance to run around with her cousins (this is one of my favorite memories as a child– running around in the backyard with [...]
May 17, 2008
Blog Block
So I’ve been having some difficulty writing on my blog this week. I am not sure exactly what has been going on with me. I had some really great post ideas but haven’t been able to execute any of them. Instead, I find myself making excuses for not blogging or writing/rewriting a [...]
May 9, 2008
Shame on Kathie Lee!
This week I would like to dedicate my “Walk of Shame” post to Kathie Lee’s Today show segment on “Mommy Bloggers.” If you somehow missed the segment, you can see it here.
Shame on Kathie Lee for not researching the subject of blogging before actually participating in a segment on it.
Shame on Kathie Lee for [...]
May 8, 2008
Cool Translation Site!
Are you struggling to communicate with someone in an unfamiliar language? Well, I do and I have a really great computer translation site that I use that you might find helpful, Babel Fish Translation*. It has definitely made communicating with my mother-in-law a whole lot easier.
I may have mentioned once (or [...]
May 7, 2008
The Next Female NASCAR Winner?
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Mary Kate
May 5, 2008
And I thought I looked good…
Last night I had plans to go see a movie with my best friend. Because I don’t get out much (surprise, surprise), I thought I’d get a little “dolled” up and at least make an effort to not smell like spit up.
I should preface this story by saying that I was definitely NOT one [...]
May 3, 2008
Warning, Warning: The Diaper will Fail in 3, 2, 1…
wah, wah, wah…
As my eyes adjusted to the dark, I tried to figure out what was the best course of action. Was this an attention-seeking cry or a problem cry? I decided to give it a few minutes and see if Becca would settle back down again.
Wah, WAH, WWWW-AAA-HHH rattle-rattle
Clearly, she wasn’t settling [...]
