Amelia loves The Paper Bag Princess. And although the board book version is not the same as the original, it still calls Ronald a “bum” and the end of the book. Amelia loves that part and if you listen closely you’ll hear her say “bum bum” when it gets to that bit of the story. [...]
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Written by Jennifer Kolari, Connected Parenting, Transform Your Challenging Child and Build Loving Bonds for Life is exactly the type of book I would normally glance at as it sits on the shelf at the local big box bookstore and then I’d keep walking. Why? Because from the title I would infer that it is [...]
Summer in the city
Posted in Books, baby, friends & family, home on May 3rd, 2009
Ok, it isn’t exactly summer yet but we have been having warm, sunny weather and have been trying to spend as much time outside as we can. Amelia and I have now made a habit of going to le petit gym for their weekly “bugs” class (4-10 months). It’s nice for Amelia to see other [...]
A few days after I received my first package from Penguin Canada, a second arrived with Elizabeth Noble’s latest work, The Girl Next Door. I haven’t read any other novels by this UK author, but this one was enjoyable enough that I would definitely buy another if I came across it in a bookstore table [...]
Review: Loser’s Town
Posted in Books on Apr 28th, 2009
Thanks to Twitter, I learned that Penguin Canada was looking for bloggers who would be willing to write book reviews for their titles. I figured Penguin would be seeking out bloggers who had tons of readers, but I applied anyway because I can’t pass up an offer for free books. Within a few days I [...]
Reading
Posted in Books, Photos, baby, friends & family on Feb 22nd, 2009
Amelia really loves looking at books. We typically read at least five or six books each day, sometimes as many as 10 or 12. Her favourites right now seem to be the Sandra Boynton board books, particularly But Not the Hippopotamus. She gets noticeably excited when you take that book out and as you can [...]
Weekend fun
Posted in Books, Photos, baby, friends & family on Feb 15th, 2009
Amelia loves it when Ian is home on the weekend. She gets to play with him all day long!
Here is what Amelia gave to Ian for his birthday. I’m not the most crafty person in the world, so I would not say the project that “artistic.” But, they came out ok in the end (despite paint getting everywhere and little feet that did not want to stay still long enough to get clean [...]
Here are some photos of Amelia and books. I hope this will be a life-long friendship.
I don’t know why I didn’t use Google Reader sooner. It is a handy way to have all the blogs you like to read at your fingertips. I had to test out Reader for work a while back, but somehow I just didn’t think to use it to keep track of sites I like online. [...]