Month: April 2015
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Before & After Kids: Car Rides
The next time parents arrive at your house for a dinner party party or family holiday with child in tow, and they look like they’ve been to hell and back, just offer a glass of wine and let them regain their composure, since they might have just endured the wrath of an unhappy child.
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Elders React to Snapchat
Snapchat makes no friggin’ sense to me, but I have it nonetheless. I mean, any millennial that runs a website should use Snapchat, right? Regardless, I’ve never sent a snap, and have pretty much forgot about it.
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Learning Spanish with Lil’ Libros
There was a time in Isabel’s brief life that half of her understandable vocabulary was Spanish. That was also the time when she only knew about 6 words. Needless to say, she now says a few more words, and seems to be saying more words in English. But ask her something in Spanish, and she knows exactly…
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Little Things
Isabel loves to read. And she loves when we read to her even more. She grabs her books from the shelf and assumes the position in our lap, without fail. But for some god forsaken reason, she has been insisting that we read to her the minute she wakes up at 6:30 am.
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Mama Speaks #15
I was reminded of something Mrs. FWL said a long time ago. Whether we’re consoling her in the middle of the night, or waking up with her in the pre-dawn hours, she is still our fabulous, energetic, determined, little mammal.
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Before & After Kids: Weekends
The other night, Mrs. FWL commented, “Weekends used to be for recharging for the next week, but it’s almost the reverse now.” Bingo! I had been thinking about this recently, and couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but she summed it up in one sentence (as she frequently does).
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6 Toddler Meltdown Triggers
It’s has been well-documented across the internet that toddlers lose their shit over the most random things. Inspired by an off-hand comment made by Mrs. FWL a few days ago, this is my short list of meltdown triggers.