Maybe it’s because we’ve had the stomach flu at our house and have used videos in place of parenting the past couple days.
Maybe it’s because we often have the television on when HawkInWinter brings Siena into the office to nurse a few hours after bedtime.
Maybe it’s just because we have a toddler with her own [...]

A friend of ours recently said, “Each time Siena says a real word I think, ‘Woah! A talking baby!”
I’ve been adding to a list of our talking baby’s words and signs for a while now, meaning to post them. I think it’s time.
Signed Words:

more
airplane
cat
bird
eat
potty
nurse

Verbal words and pronunciations, in approximate order learned:

hi
dog (daw)
woof woof (woo woo)
down [...]

When I was a Special Education student, I was fascinated by language development. It was so intriguing to research various theories of how we learn language, how our language separates us from even highly trained animals, and methods of teaching students who have not naturally “absorbed” language as do most children.
As a Special Education teacher, [...]

Siena has made an appearance on a third blog! Mine, her Daddy’s, and now her Grandma Betty’s professional blog too.

My mom used this picture of Siena to illustrate a post she wrote about simplicity being a path to joy. I’m also pretty sure she had Siena in mind for the first few paragraphs of this [...]

Ever since learning there is such thing as Pi Day, when the date is 3-14, like the first digits of pi (3.14), I have wanted to celebrate by baking a pie. Somehow that has never happened, either because I remember it on March 14th and don’t have what I need, or remember it sometime after [...]

Welcome to a slightly different version of Not Me! Monday – it’s Not My Child! Monday instead. Both blog carnivals were started by MckMama over on her blog, My Charming Kids.  Not My Child! Monday is where I tell you all sorts of things my child has certainly NOT done recently. Thing that, [...]