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Books I’m surprised my kids like

24 Apr

Sometimes things are so predictable.  Like a book with a digger on the front is easily a favorite book for a 3 and a half year old boy.

And a book with a dinosaur AND a digger?  Golden.

But this book?  It’s about a mouse who is a dentist. ( And a patient who may or may not want to eat him!)  The guys love it.   I’ve had to read it a zillion times.  ( I just noticed that amazon had it as a book on cd-I’m going to have to see if we can get a copy!)

And this one I thought would be way over their heads.

It’s about a girl who’s house burns down and she is saving coins to buy her mom a new chair. Again, we’ve read it over and over.

And this is the book that confuses me the most.

It’s about a little mouse who pretty much lazes around the whole summer while his family works to save food and then entertains them with his poetic prowess. They LOVE Frederick.  I have to admit he is pretty cute.

Does anyone else have surprising books that their kids love?  I’d love to add more to our repertoire:)

Puppets for little English major wannabes

7 Mar

I can only imagine what my guys would say if I got them these puppets instead of say, Mickey Mouse and Goofy, or even random safari animals.  (I like that Virginia Woolf and Tolstoy are holding hands-that would have made an interesting English 101 discussion.) And although finger puppets do make great airplane toys for preschoolers I’m doubtful these will make the cut for our carry-ons.

Things you don’t really need at Ikea but should buy anyway

6 Jan

This morning we headed to Ikea because we wanted to get some drawer pulls to replace some that had broken.  Unfortunately we couldn’t find them in the maze and it felt very cliche to be shopping for organizational stuff the first week of January anyways.  So we didn’t buy anything functional.  It was just a mom and sons fun shopping trip.

We found our carts and set off to fill them.

We signed up for the Ikea Family program.  I love it because you get free coffee or tea everytime you go. Which helps if you end up getting cake (something you definitely don’t need 6 days into January but remember, we were not on a real, organizational, New Years resolution type of shopping trip).  And it was delicious.

The boys decided on these animal carriers for their huggies.

And I found the easel that I’ve been wanting for only 14.99.  I seriously got a mini-workout hefting it around from the children’s area to the checkout. (I wonder if anyone has clocked how far that trek actually is??)  Hopefully having this easel will help foster creativity in the New Year.  If anything it will at least look like I’m trying to create artists, right?

 

 

Other things that may or may not have made it into my shopping bin:  Ikea Felt Food, a little grooming kit for animals, a farm animal set that would be fantastic for an airplane trip, and the best swivel chair ever. (I have to keep this part vague as my hubby tends to read this, tally the total in cost and house/space reduction and panic.)

And no trip to Ikea would be complete without these bag clips.  They are probably the only thing we really need from this store. For 2.99 they seal bags reducing mess in my kitchen.  But they also disappear mysteriously and the boys use them to ‘cut nails’, feed their animals and do my hair.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’ll probably be back again next week, because once you’ve been bitten by the Ikea bug, you just can’t get enough.  At least I didn’t come home with bunkbeds this trip. (But I kind of wanted to to.)

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