Category: H/T

  • “Butterfly” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old

    “Butterfly” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old

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    We have yet to find a stall tactic we have not been able to avert. But the disappearing toddler trick, that’s a new one for me.

  • “Shark” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old

    “Shark” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old

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    Isabel hasn’t yet created any comprehensible stories, but I have a feeling she is going to take us on many interesting journeys, which may or may not include undersea adventures.

  • “Monkey Bars” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old

    “Monkey Bars” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old

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    Isabel is a little daredevil sometimes. She sees something to climb on and thinks that she can start climbing and nothing will happen because we will magically save her, or carry her up the ladder/slide/steps/dangerous apparatus.

  • “Public Bathroom” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old

    “Public Bathroom” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old

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    We started exploring potty training several weeks ago. Mama bought the kid-sized potty, toilet seat adapter, hand-washing stool, and several books to encourage and hype-up “the potty”. We even got lucky a couple times and Isabel went potty while sitting on her own potty. (She also crapped on the floor next to the potty because…

  • “Cat” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old

    “Cat” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old

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    We are a cat house. Our two cats have been with Mama FWL and me for 8 years and they were our first “children”. So all you cat haters out there can go find something else to read (please don’t go!).

  • “Fore” – Convos With My 4-year Old

    “Fore” – Convos With My 4-year Old

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    I started playing sports when I was 5. Beginning with the “gateway” sport, soccer, and progressing through baseball, track, basketball, and ultimate frisbee (yes, that is a sport), I’ve been playing organized sports all my life. This doesn’t event count the unorganized dabblings in golf, ping pong, football, laser tag, and mud-running.

  • “Friends” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old

    “Friends” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old

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    Friendships aren’t easy. Some last forever, some end sooner than anticipated, and others serve a temporary purpose and fade away without any fanfare. I’d like Isabel to develop solid friendships and sometimes even wonder just how she will do that (how do kids “make” friends?). But I also know my little angel can be very…