Two things I love: tools that make my life easier and anything that makes me look like a fun mom! Play Today DC does BOTH! There are many web sites that help parents find local events and family-friendly things to do and I love them all, but newcomer Play Today DC has a very clean sorting interface that allows you [...]
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Clifford the Big Red Dog and his friends from Birdwell Island are at Baltimore’s Port Discovery as part of a traveling exhibit. If your kids are fans of this lovable canine and his adventures, I highly recommend visiting this well-planned exhibit as a lot of activities are packed into a small space. The exhibit is set [...]
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The Nutcracker with puppets? A purist at heart, I couldn’t quite fathom it. After all, the Nutcracker I grew up with was performed by the Miami Ballet Company, one of the few licensed to perform George Balanchine’s version of The Nutcracker™. But the JavaKids’ first exposure to a live version of this classic tale was yesterday at The [...]
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“Please pick up your backpacks!” “Did you brush your hair? Your teeth?” ”Have you done your homework?” I know we aren’t the only household constantly asking our children these questions because I see parents kvetching about it on blogs, Twitter and Facebook and when we visit friends I see a variety of chore charts and reward [...]
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With one full Little League baseball practice under his belt, JavaBoy decided to get industrious Sunday and made noises about putting together a “field” in the backyard. Happy that he was playing outside with his sister, I didn’t think much of it until he announced he had named it after JavaGirl as an early birthday [...]
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The JavaKids didn’t have school yesterday, but since JavaBoy had a bit of a cough, I curtailed any thoughts of taking a field trip, and instead gave us a lazy “yes” day. I decided to go with the flow, and to say yes to most of their requests! Yes, I will read every book you [...]
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Legos seem like they’d be the easiest thing to organize (they snap together, so modular, so neat!) and yet they are the cause of so much playroom clutter, both by my own informal visual inspection and according to online anecdotes. Somehow they morph from the initial single bin or box into overflowing containers, toppling towers of boxes, or [...]
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With the sun shining on our backs, my children and I were trying to grab a little bit of shade in the picnic table area of Lake Fairfax’s Water Mine as JavaDad stood in line to grab us an early dinner. We were trying to squeeze in a little bit of summer fun — after [...]
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As a mom, there are some things that come naturally, and there are some things that definitely do NOT. Teaching my kids to ride a bike is one of those things. I wasn’t even aware I was supposed to be teaching my kids to ride a bike yet. For whatever reason, my parents didn’t teach [...]
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