Charlotte is a creative little girl. If you start making up a story, she’ll add to it. Today I decided to see what she could create on her own. I only helped her with prompts like “what would she do when she is a great-grandma?” The sequence, ideas, and pictures all came from her.
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Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Is that I get to hang out with my cousin’s wife and their kids. I think we get along very well and are similar in strange ways. Like we both cry at the drop of a hat (or the sound of a shoe falling down the stairs—there’s a story behind this that made me both [...]
Posted on April 30th, 2010 by Kathleen
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She uses her “magic” wand to turn things pink.
Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I took Isaac and Charlotte to fun night at Isaac’s school. We bought ten tickets for $5.00. They spent their first two tickets on a bag of cotton candy, which they split.They spent the rest of their tickets on the inflatable games. The first thing they choose was the obstacle course that ended in a [...]
Posted on April 28th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Isaac really wanted to make something with this heart sticker, so we decided that he could write a letter to his grandma. This is his first handwritten letter to grandma:
He insists on making periods and dotting the letter i with an enormous circle.
Posted on April 28th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I bought a Bumbo when Nicole was a baby and I was desperate for a way to put her down and have her remain happy. She wasn’t happy with the swing, or bouncer, or lying on her back and as it turned out, she wasn’t particularly thrilled with the Bumbo either and I thought that [...]
Posted on April 25th, 2010 by Kathleen
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We have an assignment to write about our memories of elementary school for our Cochran Family Blog so I dug up this post which it turns out I wrote, but never published. I had my mother send some elementary school pictures to go with them. For some reason, I thought that would be a nice [...]
Posted on April 24th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Nicole insists on sleeping on toys and books. If you try to move them, she’ll put them right back. She likes to have a stuffed animal (usually Curious George) or doll under each arm and then she places books in the middle and sleeps on her tummy on top of all of them! And she [...]
Posted on April 23rd, 2010 by Kathleen
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Isaac loves to ride his bicycle, but he will only ride a turn or two (if that) before he starts trying to experiment or attach things. He has tried to attach various yard tools in a variety of different ways. One day he was riding along with a rake. As the rake dragged along the [...]
Posted on April 22nd, 2010 by Kathleen
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When I try to take a picture of Ila smiling, I end up with a lot of pictures that look like this: Not only does she stare at the camera instead of me, but when the camera flashes she seems a little startled by it and I end up with pictures that have what I [...]
Posted on April 21st, 2010 by Kathleen
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was this morning when as I walked down the hall to get Isaac up, I heard Nicole’s sweat little voice calling out “Mom, where are you?” over and over again. She’s just at that age where her language skills are exploding. Not only is her vocabulary increasing, but she is starting to string two words [...]
Posted on April 20th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Before anyone went shopping, I thought I’d post some pertinent info. I hope this isn’t too presumptuous of me. We’re really ok if no-one gets her anything. She is only turning 2, but I know that a grandma or two may be thinking of sending something and I thought this format would be acceptable. If [...]
Posted on April 19th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Charlotte: I learned about Adam and Eve
Me: What did you learn about them?
Charlotte: I learned how to draw them
Me: Did you color a picture of them at church?
Charlotte: yeah
Me: Did you learn what they did?
Charlotte: They ate a tree.
Me: They ate a tree?!
Charlotte: They ate all the fruit on the tree.
Me: What did they [...]
Posted on April 18th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I get this question regularly. The short answer is that I just don’t sleep, at least not much. For the long answer, click read more.
Posted on April 17th, 2010 by Kathleen
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It’s funny how reading something sometimes reminds you of things that you might not have recalled on your own. I was reading a post by my mother-in-law about her mother (Zach’s Grandma) and it reminded me of the aprons we had as children. I remember me and Barb having aprons with our names sewn [...]
Posted on April 16th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I think it’s beneficial to consider the differences in how one would organize single use items differently than multiple use items.
Definitions: Single use items are things like a can of soup or a box of macaroni and cheese. Multiple use items include things like spices and oils.
I avoid giving places to single use items [...]
Posted on April 14th, 2010 by Kathleen
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Luckily I had my camera with me when Isaac rode his bike around the corner like this:
He has devised a way to sweep as he rides. Now if only his Lego building resulted in a clean bathroom, I’d be set.
Posted on April 13th, 2010 by Kathleen
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I like this picture of Nicole. I found her sitting on the kitchen floor, wearing her father’s hat and looking at this book that she took from our bedroom.
There’s just something about this picture that seems very silly to me. Maybe it’s that she didn’t just take the book or the hat, but [...]
Posted on April 12th, 2010 by Kathleen
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General Container Considerations:
In most areas I use clear containers. I like the look of the baskets and cloth containers, but they’re for style more than function and if you’re organizing a cupboard or closet, it just makes more sense to be able to see what’s inside at a glance,especially when they’re behind a door most [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2010 by Kathleen
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It occurred to me today that I ought to make a habit of posting well check stats here .(particularly for my children’s grandparents, but also for anyone else who wants to know)
Name: Ila Jane Cochran (side note: It annoys me that most fonts don’t differentiate the capital I from the lowercase L so it [...]
Posted on April 9th, 2010 by Kathleen
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