Now that our family is together and adjusted…moving on!

Now that we are all fully transitioned, which was our top priority for many months, I can focus on some other stuff in addition to parenting: Fitting in to my jeans After a 6 day “cleanse”, I am now committed to getting some physical activity which means cycling, yoga or walking daily. A yoga studio [...]

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Trusting Toddlers To Make Their Own Food Decisions

We decided before we ever had children that we would not restrict access to any foods based on this study published on PBS and Scientific American. Our tots have always had free range access to the refrigerator and any other food in the house. However, we ran into an issue with not having enough variety [...]

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What I’ve Been Strewing Lately

I learned about strewing our children’s paths with interesting things a while back.  However, I just wasn’t doing it at first. I guess it comes naturally for others, but it takes me a bit of time and effort. We live in a small apartment and don’t have a play room, so the girls’ things are [...]

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What We’ve Been Up To: A Photo Update

What we’ve been up to lately: We also got to meet our Auntie and new baby cousin, but I don’t think we can post pics online. So fun!

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Adoption Transition – Trying to Retain her Original Language

From what we understand, a child loses their original language within 3-4 months of being submerged in their new language. Ali has been home 1 month so far and we have been trying desperately to help her retain Russi*n language. The chances that it will work are slim from what we understand, but we want [...]

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Family of 4 Cycles 3 Years from Alaska to Argentina

Way back in March 2010, I wrote a post about this incredible family of 4 cycling the Pan-American highway from Alaska to Argentina. Amazingly, after 3 years cycling 17,000 miles, they have completed their journey! This interview is a MUST READ for everyone interested in adventure traveling with children and/or worldwide life learning. I am [...]

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Preparing for Speech Delays / Speech Therapy

Now that we’ve met our little ones, it seems clear that one of the major things we’ll be working on with them is speech as they both have speech delays. I’m going to have the luxury of being an at-home / full-time Mom, so I’m going to be working with them on speech and language [...]

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A Blubbering Mess

So what set me off into a blubbering mess today? A postal delivery of “The Family Book” by Todd Parr (I buy used books). Oh, forget it…I was crying by the first page: “Some families are big [colorful illustration of 2 parents with 9 children]. Some families are small [one parent with one child]. Some [...]

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Must See Learning Videos

http://www.youtube.com/v/p6l8-1kHUsA?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0   http://www.youtube.com/v/UuMTSU9DcqQ?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0

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And the Children Played

Great article on the Life Learning blog today. And the Children Played.

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