Smattery

I just had one of the sweetest moments I’ve had so far as a parent. I was cleaning some things up in the kitchen and bumped my hand and said “ow!” Brad asked me what had happened and I said I hurt my hand. Eva, who was playing by herself and didn’t appear to be …

One of the necessities of living in a very small house with a child is that we don’t allow ourselves to acquire too much needless gear for her. Eva’s room is too small for anything other than her crib, dresser, rocking chair and one little bookshelf. So we only have a few big toys at …

Eva is at a verbal crossroads these days. At 19 months, she’s been transitioning into the world of sentences. A typical Eva phrase these days is something like this: “Have it!” Or “milk nummy drink more want-it mine!” They’re not really sentences, but are instead Eva throwing every applicable word out there in hopes that …

My parents had to patch a section of their sidewalk this weekend and I joked that we should have Eva walk across the wet cement. Apparently, everyone thought it was a great idea. Eva had fun too. She wasn’t too fazed by the weird feeling of wet cement under her foot. So far, so good. …