Wordless Wednesday: The best part of The Six-Year-Old’s week
Adjusting to a new school has been tough on The Six-Year-Old, so on Friday, we celebrated the end of her first week with a visit to…
Wordless Wednesday: T. Rex Eats Chicago
Ever since The Six-Year-Old adopted Grace Elvis from the Field Museum earlier this year, she has taken her responsibilities as a dinosaur parent very seriously. Things…
Wordless Wednesday: One last hurrah at the Shedd Aquarium
Yeah. I’m going to miss summer too. Related Links: Wordless Wednesday on Caterpickles What’s Wordless Wednesday? Recently I discovered Wordless Wednesdays through the blog, 5 Minutes…
Wordless Wednesday: World’s Biggest Dragonfly
Look who I found when I wandered out into our parking lot one afternoon this summer. Man, bugs get big here. Related Links: Wordless Wednesday on…
Wordless Wednesday: The Basil Patch at the Chicago Botanic Garden
A week or so ago, some friends invited us out to the Chicago Botanic Garden. It was a gorgeous day, and in my usual camera-impaired style,…
Wordless Wednesday: My Sky Yesterday
While this image of the Earth from Saturn was making the rounds of the Internet yesterday, The Six-Year-Old and I were hanging out at our little…
The View from our Window
We’ve landed–not only in Chicago, but as of 11 a.m. yesterday–in our actual condo (we’re renting a place for a year to give ourselves time to…
Wordless Wednesday: The Six-Year-Old Goes to Chicago
Recently I discovered Wordless Wednesdays through the blog, 5 Minutes for Mom. Basically, on Wednesdays all around the Internet, bloggers post their favorite photos, ideally without…
“What’s wrong with ketchup on hot dogs?”
While passing through Chicago O’Hare airport late last year, my daughter was deeply disturbed to learn that Chicagoans don’t put ketchup on their hot dogs. What’s wrong with putting ketchup on hot dogs? And what could you possibly use instead?
“I thought T. Rexes only had three toes. What’s that back thing for?”
Last year, The Five-Year-Old had a chance to cross a major item off her bucket list. She met Sue. For those of you who do not have your own in-house five-year-old dinosaur specialist, Sue is the largest, most complete, and best preserved T. Rex skeleton ever found. When she introduced Sue to Daddyo, he noticed something peculiar. “Hey, I thought T. Rexes only had three toes. What’s that back thing for?”
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