Wordless Wednesday: Hug a tree today
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Wordless Wednesday: Giant Pumpkins
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“If you ate only spinach, how much spinach would you have to eat to maintain your weight?”
The Eight-Year-Old wandered into the kitchen the other day while I was prepping a blueberry and spinach smoothie. While watching me stuff the blender with spinach and almond milk, she asked, “Mommyo, if you ate only spinach, how much spinach would you have to eat to maintain your weight?”
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
The Eight-Year-Old has been quite concerned by news that her cousin’s cat has been peeing all over their house. This is not approved cat behavior. The Eight-Year-Old is clearly mulling over potential causes. I’m sure that’s why I caught her reading the ASPCA Cat Care Manual and The Pet Vet series by Darrel and Sally Odgers this week.
Wordless Wednesday: The View From Our Window
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“What does an ant’s mouth look like?”
My daughter wanted to know what an ant’s mouth looked like. So I used the power of the Google and found a bunch of images of ant mandibles for her, courtesy of Paul Illsley’s blog Tiny Faces in Nature.
The Eight-Year-Old’s room spins out of control
The Eight-Year-Old’s room typically looks like this: Last week, the maids came and transformed it into this: The Eight-Year-Old’s reaction on coming home from school and finding…
What’s The Eight-Year-Old reading this week?
Our mostly-weekly survey of the tidbits that cross The Eight-Year-Old’s desk. This week, The Eight-Year-Old is shocked to learn that Mommyo has never read Judy Blume and takes steps to rectify that Great Injustice immediately.
Wordless Wednesday: My Lego Store Husband
Have you been to the Lego store lately? You can make all kinds of little Lego people there now. Daddyo wasn’t with us, so naturally I…
Applied Vocabulary, Episode 3: “What is bliss?”
My cat has an extraordinary super power. He is able to demonstrate the meaning of words. (To be fair, he reads a lot.) In today’s lesson, Canelo teaches The EIght-Year-Old the meaning of bliss.
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