As I mentioned last week, The Five-Year-Old is the proud owner of a Fisher-Price Kid-Tough See Yourself Camera and the shiny new title of Official Caterpickles Junior Photojournalist. I took The Five-Year-Old and her camera to Franklin Park Zoo this weekend to tour the Zoo’s new Zoorassic Park! exhibit.
Overheard at an undisclosed location, a mother and her daughter making plans for Father’s Day: Mommyo, enthusiastically: “As Daddyo would say, The Five-Year-Old, that plan is…
This week, I’ve been mulling over the Trophies for Everyone approach to childhood. Granted, a lot of life is simply showing up. But eventually I’m going to need my daughter to want to do more than that.
School may be out, but that doesn’t mean I want The Five-Year-Old to lose ground when it comes to her new-found writing and reading skills. That where Harriet Ziefert’s I’m Going to Write! Upper Case Letters comes in.
One evening, while learning the fine art of peanut shell cracking, The Five-Year-Old naturally wanted to know more about the substance she was working with. The Five-Year-Old: “Mommyo, are peanut shells made of wood?”
The Five-Year-Old: “Daddyo, this summer I want to catch a dragonfly, put him in a bottle, punch holes in the bottle and keep him as a…
A series of photographs The Five-Year-Old took with her new Fisher-Price Kid Tough Camera. Cozy the Cat, Daddyo, and her favorite balloon all kindly posed for the camera.
In which The Five-Year-Old and I have a conversation about the right age to begin reading Jane Austen.
Last week’s ice cream hunt brought us to the Dairy Twist in Pembroke, Massachusetts, (about 15 minutes northeast of Kingston). It’s an open-air ice cream shop, where you buy your ice cream at the storefront, then go somewhere else to eat it.
If you’re just joining us, recently The Five-Year-Old asked me how Americans used to make ketchup in those bleak days before Henry Heinz brought his ketchup to market in 1876. Monday we found and translated an old-timey recipe. Yesterday we cooked it. And today we’re putting our old-timey ketchup to the test.
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