State Fair

We love the state fair, and this year we made two visits, one last weekend as a family and then another trip mid week on ride-all-you-want-for-$15 day with three of M’s friends and their moms and siblings. We’ve eaten corn dogs and cotton candy and freshly made cinnamon sugar doughtnuts and lemonade and we’ve seen [...]

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Recent Chapter Book Reading

We finished Clementine’s Letter and loved it as much as the first installment. We’re eagerly awaiting more adventures with Clementine.
We’ve continued working our way through the Ramona series by Beverly Cleary. M loves Ramona. Every time we start one of the books, she begs me to read to her at least ten times [...]

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Poetry Friday: Puddles by Jonathan London

Puddles by Jonathan London is one of our recent picture books find. I immediately fell in love with the poetic language. Here is a sample from the beginning:
All Night the slash
of rain and the flash
of lightning, and the
Ka-BOOM
of thunder rattling
the house and all
the windows. We cuddle
between fright
and glee and want it
to stop
and never stop.
Puddles [...]

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Picture Books About Chickens

C adores chickens. “Cluck, cluck” was one of the first animal sounds she made so we’ve checked out all the short pictures books we can find that feature chickens and these are our favorites:
Chicken to the Rescue by John Himmelman
The Little Red Hen by Byron Barton
Minerva Louise by Janet Stoeke (and others in the [...]

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Picture Books for Fall

We went apple picking on Labor Day. While it wasn’t actually crisp and cool yet, it was foggy and cooler, and it definitely got me in the mood for fall.  I am eagerly awaiting the first morning where I really need to wear a sweater when I leave the house.  We’ve been re-reading lots of [...]

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