Lunch
The Four-Year-Old, after taking a bite of her homemade quesadilla: “Mommyo, this quesadilla is yucky.” Mommyo, pushing her own plate aside: “Yeah. It kind of is.…
NIH Suspends Funding for Testing on Chimps and Other News of the Week
NIH suspends funding for testing on chimps We start this week with a follow-up to a previous Caterpickle which mentioned that the NIH was preparing a…
What to Give Your Favorite Blogger: A Caterpickles Holiday Gift Guide
Not sure what to get your buddy with the shiny new blog (or book) for the holidays this year? Shop no more. Have we got ideas for you! (And they’re all free.)
Caterpickles Cleans House, Again
Despite my best effort, The Four-Year-Old’s unanswered question index keeps getting longer. I’m at 137 and counting. In today’s post, I tackle her questions about pigs in space, duck tongues, mosquito hearts, and ancient butterflies.
Hey Mass Parents: Updated Santa Tracker for the Greater Boston Area
Via the Norwood Patch, I have learned that: Santa will be making daily visits between now and Dec 24 to the Walpole Mall, the Bass Pro…
“Why did FDR use a wheelchair?”
Franklin D. Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down from the time he was 39, so used a wheelchair in private settings. He felt his disability was a disadvantage for his political career, however, so trained himself to walk using a cane and iron braces. Only 3 pictures of him in a wheelchair exist.
“When did they invent wheelchairs?”
For reasons that are lost in the dustbin of my memory, The Four-Year-Old became intensely interested in wheelchairs about a month or two ago. “When did they invent wheelchairs, Mommyo?”
In which The Four-Year-Old answers her own question, sort of
The Four-Year-Old: Mommyo, I have both a question and an answer. Mommyo: OK. The Four-Year-Old: The question is, when did you get that bear poster? Mommyo:…
Ginger Seals! and Other News of the Week
Just two short stories today, as The Four-Year-Old is already bounding around upstairs. It’s Not Easy Being Red The first concerns Nafanya, a lonely ginger-haired seal…
“How many cameras are on the Curiosity?”
In the midst of adding one of two planned cameras to her LEGO-scale model of the Mars Rover Curiosity, The Four-Year-Old paused to ask, “How many cameras are on the Curiosity?”
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