While blow drying my hair the other day, I hear a weird noise coming from the living room area where I’d left Chibby sitting on the couch watching Nemo.  I turn off the dryer and head out into the living room.

When you’re a toddler there is no difference between smart baby and smart ass. 

I caught an episode of the Super Nanny recently in which the children in the episode were watching TV and playing age inappropriate video games all day long.  The children’s behavior didn’t even surprise me when I saw the parents saying “well we didn’t really think TV would have any effect on the them.”  Despite […]

When you were a kid the worst thing that could happen to you at school was to be the last kid picked for the team.  Grace being my middle name and al,l I was always picked dead last.  In fact i was often the odd man out….given a “special job” by the PE teacher.  In other words you […]

Chibby and I were the way to Techie’s office today when the red SUV next to us merged into our lane (because giant shiny blue mini-vans are hard to spot on perfectly clear days like today) and nearly merged into our van.
My son, seeing nothing but a wall of red coming right at his window […]

After a long day of flying, car rental, wrong hotel directions, and getting up way too early I had pretty much decided that Chibby and I would spend today at the hotel while Techie did his thing.  This morning with a full night of sleep and full tank of bravery I thought I’d take Chibby to […]

Toddlers are very observant little creatures.  Remember the pile of crap on the porch?  My Craigslist items are selling and people are stopping by the house to claim their items. 
Today one very pregnant mom-to-be came to pick up a sling.  Chibby wandered out onto the porch with us.  He stopped directly in front of the […]