Home: Sleepover Results

Life at Home: I had a sleepover in Carolyn’s room. Then I fed her cinnamon cereal for breakfast, and now she’s having a crazy reaction. Maybe I mean

Beautiful Bears

More than 50 well-dressed bears were up for auction at the Lincoln Public Library.

We went to see the bears, but first we dressed up a bear of our own. For ideas, we looked at pictures online, but Carolyn couldn’t decide, so I pulled out some of the doll clothes and stuff we have. Immediately after seeing a cute greenish dress, Carolyn was decided – she wanted to dress her bear up as a baby. We had great fun gathering up props, wrapping the “baby” in a blanket, and filling up a “diaper bag.” She carefully considered the options – toy stroller, toy carseat, or diaper bag, and chose the diaper bag. She is a very careful and meticulous girl. It’s one of the things I love about her and one of the things that I think would make school a hard match for her.

Read about the Bear Auction on the Valley Breeze site, or look at pictures of well-dressed bears online at The Vermont Teddy Bear Factory and Build-A-Bear.

C Discovers Paper

Hey, Mom! I’m making paper!

Why doesn’t this thrill me? She’s in the bath tub and has been playing with the papery packet from her oatmeal bath powder. As it begins to disintegrate in the water, she comments, “Mom, we could use this to make paper!” There’s a pause while she considers this and feels the squishy, mushy paper. She adds, “Wait, this already is paper pulp.”

Mom (she continues), I don’t need to make paper. I’m going to make paper right now.

We’ve made paper at home a few times in the last year, and I feel like I should be thrilled that she’s carrying her observations over into a new setting. But it’s the end of a long day and her paper pulp discovery looks more like a gooey mess than brilliance.