Friday evening, after the nanny left, was a wonderful time for me and Sasha. For almost two hours we played together happily, dancing, babbling, rolling a ball around the apartment, and playing peekaboo. Whee! And just that morning I’d written “What Do I Do Now?,” a post lamenting my inability to really get into it …
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The Times’s Motherlode blog just ran an item about a woman in Florida who tweeted about the death of her 2-year-old boy. Here’s a recount of the events to give an idea of the scale of this thing: Two-year-old Bryson Ross drowned on Monday in the swimming pool of the home his family had just …
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Check out this article from the Superficial (which I, of course, read religiously), which is actually nothing more than a few photos of Jon Gosselin shooting a gun. Unfair? Yes. Piling on? Certainly. Cheap shot? You betcha. Happy Friday.
Ever since we began discussing music for kids the other week, I’ve been listening to Sasha’s music with a closer ear. And by “Sasha’s music,” I mean, primarily, Dan Zanes—the ex-Del Fuegos lead singer who in the last decade has become a Brooklyn kiddie-tune fixture. By and large, his music is fantastic, a mix of …
