Super Rachel Zana's Spot

Squirmy is turning out to be quite the fussy little eater.  He really only ever wants squash and applesauce, sometimes oatmeal and bananas.  He’s certainly not a fan of peas, and a lot of other foods as well.  When he doesn’t like something, he vehemently doesn’t like it.  There is…

A few years ago we scored this amazing fold out Victorian paper doll house at a garage sale in our neighborhood.  We snatched it up.  Everything about the house is so detailed and old fashioned.  Then, just a few weeks later, we stumbled on a book of reproduced antique paper…

Music class started last week at the assisted living centers, so I have been super busy getting everything ready for the preschoolers and their families.   The first two classes were terrific, last Thursday and Friday.  All of the activities were based on fairy tales and nursery rhymes.  The kids…

All the big kidlets have been getting a big kick out of tipping Squirmy back up so he can sit again when he tumbles over.  The Banana especially loves hanging out with Squirmy on the floor and entertaining him.  She is very excited about being a mom someday, and has…

Someone is thrilled to be sitting up all on his own. He spends countless hours picking up this orange crocheted carrot and chewing on it.  He’s very proud of himself, and loves to be sitting right in the middle of a frenzy of activity.  He does NOT like to be…

YaYa said to me the other day, “Wouldn’t it be interesting if the conductor of the symphony or your choir heard the audience coughing and shifting around and got frustrated, turned around, and stomped his foot on the podium like this?”  She stood up, hunched up her back, clenched her…

How can you not love a girl that snuggles up next to you in the morning, and when you tell her you’d just like to snuggle with her all day, she looks at you sympathetically and says, “Mama, as soon as I get home from school we can snuggle all…

A sledding hill does not necessarily need to be long to be entertaining.  The kidlets have built a track that goes down the steep  front yard onto the sidewalk that sort of resembles a skateboard park.  They woosh down the super steep slope and down across the sidewalk, up the…

While I was in the kitchen cooking supper, Dr. Peds was going through an enormous pile of his mail while sitting next to the fireplace, and Mr. SP was a few feet away working on homework. Mr. SP:  I HATE this homework! Dr. Peds:  Well, what kind of homework would…

Squirmy has started to give snuggle hugs.  I love it. He’s a smiley guy, always looking around, hoping for some interesting commotion to happen.  He can sit up a bit with the help of a pillow. He can wiggle on the floor a bit.  He loves to put things in…