Inspired by the fairytale of Jack and the Beanstalk, your little ones will get a kick out of planting their own Magic Bean seeds. It’s really simple too, the hardest part is finding some of those coveted Magic Beans!
Inspired by the fairytale of Jack and the Beanstalk, your little ones will get a kick out of planting their own Magic Bean seeds. It’s really simple too, the hardest part is finding some of those coveted Magic Beans!
Since today is March 14th (3/14) people all around the world are celebrating the mathematical constant Pi (Greek letter “π”), which is equal to approximately 3.14159. We think a day that celebrates math is totally super! What is Pi? Here is a little math refresher so you can explain things properly to the kiddos: Pi…
We’ve been busy here brainstorming ways to trick pesky leprechauns into our trap — we just know this is our year to finally catch one!! Liam raided all the piggy banks in our home in search of pennies; he’s convinced the leprechauns will mistake pennies for gold and walk right into the trap. (Follow us…
We are lucky that one set of grandparents are right here in Phoenix with us, but my husband’s parents live up in Wyoming. We get to see them only a couple times a year, and so I thought it would be fun to send them a little St. Patrick’s Day surprise. I had my little…
Something about a rainy morning makes me just want to stay home in bed, but Aimee and I braved the storm here in Phoenix to head down to the local NBC studio. Want to see our live segment for Arizona Midday today? Click the image below to watch it online! You can also read more…
Our friends over at Phoenix NBC’s Arizona Midday have asked us to come on today and share tips for keeping kids busy while they’re home for Spring Break. We will be sharing some fun ideas to not only curb boredom, but encourage kids to READ (every mom’s dream, right?!). If you’re local, be sure to…
Since I read to my boys all the time when they were babies and toddlers, I really thought they would grow to love reading. But the truth is they don’t. (At least not yet.) So I’ve had to get creative. I’ve been trying to come up with activities we can do that correspond with our…
I’m sure it is completely unsurprising that my girls love Fancy Nancy. Actually if you can show me a little girl between the ages of two and eight that *doesn’t* adore Nancy I will be far more shocked. While this book has had a steady slot in our bedtime story circuit for a while, it’s…
I can’t remember how we came across DogFish, but the first time my girls and I read this book I immediately ordered a copy from Amazon for their bookshelf. Between the adorable retro-modern illustrations and the very useful moral — “If you can’t have what you want, you could try wanting what you have.” —…
I’m not sure exactly how it started, but my boys (and now Bettijo’s girls too) spend the month of March trying to figure out how to catch a Leprechaun. Each year as they prepare their Leprechaun Traps it’s serious business. I can almost see the wheels churning in the minds of my little engineers —…
