Carbon used a pacifier until quite recently, and I was getting a lot of trouble from people for letting him continue to use it. I lost count of the number of times someone told him to tell me that he didn’t need that nasty thing. Excuse me! Keep your opinion to [...]
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My son can’t eat wheat, shouldn’t have too much dairy (me either), and can’t eat apples, grapes, and some other fruits. I’m allergic to pork, tomatoes, and eggplants. We have a special needs kitchen!
Orange Cheesecake I made this weekend (not dairy sensitive friendly):
2 cups gluten free cookie crumbs, I used those Rice [...]
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Here’s a fun art project. We took one of the many garden catalogs we’ve received in the mail and Carbon ripped out pictures of flowers he liked. He glued those down and also glued down tissue paper to make 3D flowers. It was a great project for little hands without as much coordination, because he [...]
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Here are some pictures of us planting Carbon’s garden. We’re doing container gardening for him, so that he sticks to his own area. He’s helping in the big garden too, but with more supervision!
Birdwatching at the Wildlife Refuge. He has a field guide and his birdjournal in that little backpack.
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I’ve just finalized the list of themes for next year for my Thematic Units. For those of you (most of you!) who don’t know, I write a little newsletter for subscribers that gives a mini unit study on a different theme each month. Each unit is totally interdisciplinary, with language arts, art and music, science [...]
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How much can you pack into a weekend? I’m beginning to feel like my whole week is just preparation and clean up for the weekends. It’s not true, but at the moment it feels that way. This is mostly because my husband has time at home on the weekends, so things move [...]
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I had a great conversation with my mom this morning. I was stressing about whether to take Carbon to his kindergym class this morning, because I was up a lot last night with the girl (she had a congested nose and couldn’t breath very well). We ended up digressing (as we always do when we [...]
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I took Carbon to the Pacific Science Center yesterday when we did our trip to Seattle. It was going to cost about $18 for the two of us to get in, and they convinced me that it was worth it to buy the annual family membership for $75. After all, I just have to go [...]
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