Lina on November 4th, 2009

We stumbled across The Magic Tree House series when we got a single CD of the author reading “Dingos at Dinnertime” and listened to it, oh, maybe 800 times in the car.  The kids love it and Grandma was kind enough to send us 8 entire stories on CD, plus the first four books.  They [...]

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Lina on November 30th, 2008

I’ve read a lot of blogs lately that are loving the book “Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day” and since we are always looking for good, easy bread so we had to check it out.  This is the bread I made for dinner tonight and there is dough for 3 more loaves in my [...]

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Lina on August 5th, 2008

In case you didn’t receive 3 copies of this book for your babyshower, I just wanted to remind you how good of a book Goodnight Moon is for kids. My 3 year old and my 18 month old still love it and its usually at the top of the heap for books before bedtime. [...]

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Lina on July 22nd, 2008

Okay, this is a non-typical recommendation for a kids book.  My 18 month old son loves In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (author of Where the Wild Things Are).  He carries it around, he refers to it even when it is no where in sight (the Mickey book!), he stares at each page with [...]

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Lina on June 16th, 2008

Such an important question!  This is a cute little book that we’ve just rediscovered from underneath the couch (no comments on my housecleaning schedule please).  Basically, its a litany of questions about going to sleep that dinosaurs would never do – like fall on the top of their covers and cry.  Cute pictures with lots [...]

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