Category: Steelykid!

SteelyKid has a new friend, who she shows off in this week’s Toddler Blogging: She’s a huge fan of Goldbug in Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, so when we found out that there’s a plush Goldbug toy available on the Internet, it was a real no-brainer. She recognized it immediately, despite… Continue reading Thursday Beloved Arthropod Blogging 100710

SteelyKid has been expanding her repertoire of songs lately– it now includes “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” and “The Alphabet Song” along with “Ring Around the Rosey,” “The Wheels on the Bus” and “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes”– so for this week’s picture, she decided to get in touch with her inner Bono: Irish shirt, check;… Continue reading Thursday Toddler Blogging 092310

For this week’s Toddler Blogging, a shot of Family Reading Time: SteelyKid looks very serious, because she’s going about the important job of locating Goldbug in Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go. Grandma and Grandpa still have the copy of this that I loved when I was little, and introduced SteelyKid to… Continue reading Thursday Toddler Blogging 091610

SteelyKid returns today from her weekend at Grandma and Grandpa’s, and there’s going to be a surprise waiting for her: She hadn’t exactly outgrown her crib yet, but she was getting kind of big for it, so we decided to move her to a big girl bed. It’s a “captain’s bed” with drawers underneath the… Continue reading She’s a Big Girl Now

SteelyKid goes to day care at the Jewish Community Center, which is closed today and tomorrow for Rosh Hashanah. Here we see her calling all her friends on the phone in her play house to wish them a happy new year, and let Appa offer his own greetings: The two-day closing is, as you might… Continue reading Thursday Shana Tova Blogging 090910

We had a Barfy Toddler Incident yesterday, making a mess of Kate’s spiffy new car seat, but that seems to have been a passing thing, perhaps caused by an excess of cranberry juice while on campus yesterday morning greeting new students. Thus, we went ahead with our plan to take SteelyKid to the zoo today:… Continue reading SteelyKid’s Weekend Excursion

For this week’s Toddler Blogging, SteelyKid demonstrates her mastery of bubble technology. Appa is not that impressed. Her other big new trick is bossing us around in great detail– she’ll put something on her fake grill, close the lid, turn the knobs, then say, “Daddy! No touch! Hot!” pointing at the grill, followed by a… Continue reading Thursday Toddler Blogging 090210