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Author Archives: Laura
Our Experiment In Ignoring Ellie’s Education
Unlike most everyone else I know, we are deliberating avoiding teaching Ellie about letters, or numbers, or words, or writing, or anything else related to academics. It’s not that we’re cavalier or careless about her education. It’s just that all … Continue reading
This is What Happens When I Don’t Blog About Ellie’s Language Acquisition for Five Months
A couple years ago, I said that I wanted to blog about Ellie’s language acquisition as it happened. I’m particularly fascinated by this because one of my favorite classes in grad school was about the theories of language learning. We … Continue reading
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Puzzles So Big They Require Stomachs on Tables
Look Grandpa! Ellie finally put together her birthday puzzle! It’s so big she has to lean on the table to get to it all! Thank you!!
Laugh, Kookaburra, Laugh, Kookaburra
Last Saturday, we took a family trip to the zoo. In the “Creature Encounters” area, one of the animals we could get close to was a kookaburra. “Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree” is one of the songs that … Continue reading
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My Daring, Darling, Danger-loving Boy
nothing like balancing on one arm! Silly me for worrying – of course he got down safely! (Although clearly I wasn’t that worried – I was taking pictures and not trying to catch him! :))
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Mark Doesn’t Like the Ravens Either (who, by the way, are NOT the world champions)
Mark is in the very fun phase where he’s always shaking his head no (although, obviously, he doesn’t know what he’s saying). For some reason, he only does it when he’s sitting in his chair for meals. I figured I … Continue reading
Heading To New Heights
About a month ago, I walked out of our living room and found this: And yes, I grabbed the camera and took a picture before I moved him to safety. Quick, move the piano bench back over!! As you may … Continue reading
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Birthday Dinners (all three of them!)
Ellie, Nik, and I all celebrate our birthdays in a two-week span in late September/early October. Nik and I don’t generally give many (or any) gifts to each other but we do love good food! So our birthday dinners are … Continue reading
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The Obligatory “Children in a Lot of Pumpkins” Pictures, Because It’s Fall!
(This is the best we got of Ellie by herself – not so into picture taking that night! :)) And a few outtakes: You are actually letting this girl hold me, on a table, with pumpkins?!?!?!?! Whee!!! “I’m trying to … Continue reading
Mark Figures Out How To Climb
(and Mama starts having daily/hourly/minutely heart attacks) because why just climb into the chair if you can also climb higher to get Mama’s book? from 10/9/13
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Salmon and Souvlaki 