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Stuff Kids Say on Haircut Day

December 9, 2012 By Gwen Brown Leave a Comment

Some of the funny stuff my kids say on haircut day… (Mom) “If you are a good boy, you can have a sucker while I cut your hair, but you have to sit VERY still, and keep your mouth closed. And don’t chew on the sucker.”   “Mom, remember when I didn’t like you to…

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Filed Under: Reflections Tagged With: kid quotes, my baby girl, the Boy, the Viking

Little Fashion Miss

October 10, 2011 By Gwen Brown 5 Comments

This girl.  She loves fashion.  She jumps and claps if she opens a gift that contains ‘only’ clothes.  Fancy socks are a favorite as well.This particular day, she’s chosen a vintage Raggedy Ann & Andy dress, and accessorized with lace stockings. Really beautiful lace stockings…ones that I have no memory of her owning.  And upon…

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Filed Under: Reflections Tagged With: funny kid stories, kid crazyiness, my baby girl, toddler

A Little Stink

April 4, 2011 By Gwen Brown 1 Comment

The small girly one on the end there. I was sitting next to her today at lunch, and I smelled a little something-something.  So I leaned over quietly and said “Do you need to go potty?” To which she whispered back, “No.  I just poof-ted”

Filed Under: Reflections Tagged With: kid crazyiness, my baby girl

The Sanity Drawer- Toddler Homeschool Ideas

August 30, 2010 By Gwen Brown Leave a Comment

homeschooling with a toddler

Toddler homeschool ideas that will maintain your sanity- that’s the goal here. We’ve started into our second year of homeschooling this year, and one of the main “issues” (if you will) was to prevent a certain little someone from peeling the drywall off the walls silently while we were studying spelling. The solution that I…

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Filed Under: Baby & Todder, Creative Home, Kids & Learning Tagged With: kid solutions, my baby girl, toddler

The Wicked Doll

August 12, 2010 By Gwen Brown Leave a Comment

The Wicked Doll a true poem Once upon a time there was a very wicked doll. She hit the baby on the head and drew upon the wall. She wouldn’t eat her supper. She peed upon the floor. But when her Mommy went to bed, she wasn’t naughty anymore. The end.

Filed Under: Reflections Tagged With: funny kid stories, my baby girl

Sunday Best

April 22, 2010 By Gwen Brown Leave a Comment

My baby girl was wearing a beautiful dress and bonnet last week.  Her sister had worn it when she was 2, and I really wanted a few photos of her.  Isn’t she just precious? I will never, ever, ever try to take cute outfit photos after church again… on the week we start potty training…

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