(almost) Wordless Wednesday: Canelo picks his favorite book
When my daughter’s babysitter cleaned out her bookshelf, she very kindly offered The Nine-Year-Old the pick of her collection — including an astounding number of Warriors…
What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The 9 year-old reviews If Your Name Was Changed at Ellis Island by Ellen Levine and The Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl by Daniel Pinkwater.
Throwback Thursday: “Are caterpillars ticklish?” Part Two: The Tickling
Every once in a while people ask me why I named my blog Caterpickles. Believe it or not, there is actually a reason. Back in the days when my daughter’s question-to-declarative sentence ratio was a hefty 15:1, she asked me a question about caterpillars that launched an impromptu science experiment that was so much fun, I decided to document it (and a few of my daughter’s other questions) for posterity. “Mommyo, are caterpillars ticklish?”
(almost) Wordless Wednesday: Grandpa’s giant box
Remember that time Grandpa gave Grandma a mysterious something in a box that was almost as large as The (then) Six-Year-Old? Well, this past Christmas Grandma…
“Is a mink a weasel?”
After explaining to my husband how he could tell the difference between white weasels and ermines, his mind had another question: “So, is a mink a weasel?”
What’s The Nine-Year-Old reading this week?
This week, The Nine-Year-Old reviews First Light by Rebecca Stead and Abrakapow by Isaiah Campbell.
The Six-Year-Old Watches Cartoons – “Superman Episode 3: The Arctic Giant” (1942) #ThrowbackThursday
Every Sunday afternoon (at least, every Sunday that we can manage it), our family clusters on the couch with a bowl of fresh-popped popcorn and proceeds to haggle over our Sunday Afternoon Movie. This week, Daddyo put together a montage of 1940s Superman cartoons. Watching the original Superman cartoons with The Six-Year-Old was much more fun than even my husband expected. My daughter comments freely on what she sees, and with Superman, what she saw was a lot of stuff people got wrong about dinosaurs.
Wordless Wednesday: Happy New Year!
As you can see, The Nine-Year-Old is making quick work of her New Year’s Resolutions. “Take Darth Vader and Yoda to see Rogue One” is already…
The Nine-Year-Old’s year in books
I’ve been using Goodreads on a personal basis for years now. All those years, I’ve been tracking the books we review on Caterpickles on my children’s…
Wordless Wednesday: The Aftermath
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