Sand dollar: Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?
Inquiring Four-Year-Old minds want to know: “Is a sand dollar an animal, vegetable, or mineral?”
“How do they make cooking oil?”
After using vegetable oil to make homemade play-doh, my daughter naturally wanted to know how the vegetable oil itself had been made.
“What is cream of tartar?”
After she learned that we needed cream of tartar to make both snickerdoodles and homemade Play-doh, my four-year-old daughter naturally wanted to know more about this mysterious stuff. So did my husband. “What is cream of tartar anyway?” he asked a bit dubiously.
Reason #2491 why watching football is more fun with the Four-Year-Old
The Patriots receiver is flying down the field, ball in hand just yards shy of the goal, Baltimore Ravens in hot pursuit. The Four-Year-Old jumps up…
Aloha
The Four-Year-Old, on learning that Hawaiians use the same word to say hello and goodbye: “How can you tell one Hello-ha from another?”
And another thing…
Not political, just too awesome to wait until next week’s news wrap-up. ‘Extinct’ monkey rediscovered in Indonesia jungle | Environment | The Guardian. Happy weekend, y’all.…
SOPA/PIPA votes delayed
This is not a political blog. I have no intention of turning it into a political blog, but since I brought up SOPA/PIPA earlier this week,…
The Day I Got Lazy and Other News of the Week
Etiquette for preschoolers, new wing of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and other news of the week
Book Review: Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland: A Math Adventure
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland: A Math Adventure By Cindy Neuschwander Illustrated by Wayne Geehan Charlesbridge Publishing, 2001 Age Range: 6 and up…
What’s with the black ribbon?
Normally, I try to avoid political statements on my blog. It’s a blog about living life with a preschooler, after all. No need to muck it…
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