Tag Archives: Cat

Classic Caterpickles: “Why can’t cats drink milk?”

Posted on November 7, 2012 by

I need a day to catch up on some things. You know what that means… Time for a Classic Caterpickle. For a girl obsessed with cats, The Four-Year-Old is oddly indifferent to the Disney movie The Aristocats. I suspect this … Continue reading →

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Kittens! Knitting! Dinosaurs! Oh My!

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

A post with infinite cross-gender appeal. Ah well. It can’t be helped. It’s that sort of Friday. First, the Kittens. Did you know that the NY Times has a science page dedicated to news about cats? No really. The Four-Year-Old … Continue reading →

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In sickness and in health

Posted on December 17, 2011 by

Daddyo, on finding me slumped in a fetal position on the couch, buried in cats: “Mommyo, do you want to go lie down? You look like you feel awful.” Mommyo, beset by a migraine and an uncommonly severe allergy attack: … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Three More Stories You Can Read to Your Cat

Posted on November 10, 2011 by

Three More Stories You Can Read to Your Cat By Sara Swan Miller Illustrated by True Kelley Houghton Mifflin Company, 2002 Age Range: Ages 8 and up As Sara Swan Miller explains in her introduction to this collection, cats sleep … Continue reading →

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“What’s that red stuff coming out of the cat’s eye?”

Posted on November 1, 2011 by

I know what you’re thinking. I can hear you from here. “For heaven’s sake, woman! Get that cat to a vet! Don’t sit around blogging about it!” And while in general I would agree with you, in this particular case, … Continue reading →

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Immortality Through Nouns and Other News of the Week

Posted on September 30, 2011 by

Krulwich Wonders is chock full of helpful advice on the topic of achieving immortality through nouns. Turns out maverick, bloomer, cardigan, and guillotine all were the names of people once, and have now become nouns with definitions that range greatly … Continue reading →

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In which my daughter channels Mary Poppins

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

The Four-Year-Old: “Mommyo, can I give the cats their medicine? I can do it all by myself. I even know the song: ‘Just a spoonful of tuna makes the medicine go down, the medicine go down.’ “

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“Can it rain cats and dogs, Mommyo?”

Posted on September 17, 2011 by

The Four-Year-Old, on the afternoon of the third of three very rainy days: “Can it rain cats and dogs, Mommyo?” Mother, tired after fielding an unusually active bout of questioning and trying out a new strategy of tossing one of … Continue reading →

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In which my daughter rolls some dice and tells another story

Posted on September 12, 2011 by

As you may recall from an earlier post, my daughter loves playing Story Cubes. During a recent bout, she rolled the following: It was only with great difficulty that I kept her from rolling the dice again.

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Review: Little Labs Weather Beginner Experiment Kit

Posted on September 8, 2011 by

Little Labs Weather Beginner Experiment Kit By Thames & Kosmos Franckh-Kosmos Verlag, LLC, 2007 (English translation Thames & Kosmos, LLC, 2007) Age Range: 5 and up This kit is one of the items I picked up earlier this summer from … Continue reading →

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