Step Away from the Fuzzy Tyrannosaur and Other News of the Week

Feathered dinosaurs, chocolate bilbies, and other news of the week

Product Review: Knot Genie

I hate brushing my daughter’s hair. I’m not alone in this. My daughter hates it when I brush her hair too. Sadly, The Five-Year-Old’s hair is super-fine and extra tangle-ly, which means that every morning we have to deal with a major case of bed head before packing her off to preschool.

Laundry day

One day while I was folding clothes, The Five-Year-Old came up and offered to help. Never one to turn that down, I pointed to a stack of towels and asked her to put them away.

The Sproing Cat’s Guide to Hunting with a Giganotosaur

This morning, when I came downstairs intent on rustling up a bit of breakfast, I found my daughter’s kitten class already well underway. This morning’s lesson was on hunting with a Giganotosaur, and seemed to consist mainly of my daughter running in circles around the house while shouting out various rules to her imaginary troupe of kittens and a juvenile Giganotosaur named Laura.

“How I Saved the Neanderthal” By The Five-Year-Old

In which my daughter writes a comic book.

This week’s menu, courtesy of The Five-Year-Old

The Five-Year-Old, helpfully as her mother works on the family’s dinner plans for the week. “That’s what we eat in Kitty World. Dead fish or injured…

Baby Eagles! and Other News of the Week

Baby eagle webcam, male trees in cities, and other news of the week

What? Where’s my Book Review?

Although you would hardly know it from the silence on the site today, we are still reading very good books here at Caterpickles Central. We highly recommend Coyote Steals the Blanket by Janet Stevens. We love it. In fact, we are so very busy loving it we haven’t had any time to write a proper review of it.

Parenting Fail

The Five-Year-Old, under her breathe: “[mild expletive, mild expletive], our phone is broken. [mild expletive, mild expletive].” I knew the day when The Five-Year-Old started using…