Recently Jake and James discovered free books on the iPad. I’m not sure exactly how they chose the two stories they downloaded, but most nights we now listen to strange versions of Goldilocks and The Princess and the Pea. I say “strange” because they seem to have changed the stories…
It was approximately a year ago when Jake’s previous classroom devolved, as James describes it, into Lord of the Flies. Ultimately the problem seemed to be too many kids, a disproportionate age spread, and perhaps a tad too much “free play.” Every day I would encourage Jake to keep his…
We’ve suddenly noticed Nate talks. I mean, we’ve known he says things, but now all of a sudden, I think he’s saying lots of things. Here’s a little cheat sheet, in case you find yourself in a deep discussion with our littlest conversationalist: Mama = Mama Dada = Dada Mo…
I think I’ve mentioned something about Nate and climbing… If my kids were goats, Jakey is a farm goat and Natesy is a mountain goat. Every time we turn around, Nate has figured out how to climb up something we’d previously considered “safe.” We find him standing on the coffee…
At one point Jakey was trilingual. At least in the case of one word: mo. He could express the word “more” in English, Spanish, and his own version of American Sign Language. I wonder what the odds are for two babies, born two years apart, to have the same first…