Lyons Cub was half a year old when, on our summer trip from Clarksville, TN to Düsseldorf, Germany, he had a hernia emergency right on the flight. Needless to say, as soon as we landed and our relatives had picked us up, we drove to the University Clinics of Düsseldorf, and he was put under…
Okay, admittedly, those wonderful teepees were already there, built by bigger kids, maybe from a Montessori school or scouts, but Lyons Cub carried several sticks and branches to “improve” them. In his former kindergarten, Amare Montessori in Clarksville, TN, they had big branches like that to build tents with, too. Then, he showed mommy around…
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Today, Lyons Cub baked a Very Hungry Caterpillar cake. It was fun! The mold is made of silicone. He liked how rubbery…
Last time, I’ve shown you how to make hyperbolic tilings of photos, which was great fun already. Well, let’s step it up a notch–my mathematician brother-in-law has sent me the link for a kaleidoscope app, which creates even crazier and more beautiful images! They appear immediately and don’t take as long to build up as…
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Duplo and Mega Bloks are great toys to let your little one practice fine motor skills and thinking logically. Lyons Cub loves…
Hey moms, It’s such an easy trick, and it doesn’t cost you anything. You’ve probably long tried it already. I mean, it happens without your doing; you unpack a present or a big kitchen appliance, and kiddo is already snatching up the packaging material, doing his own thing. No need to buy expensive cardboard playhouses…
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. When Lyons Cub was 1.5 years old, he got his blue, wooden toy kitchen. At that time, he was too young yet…
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Lyons Cub has been fascinated with volcanoes, lava, and dinos since he was a year old. To celebrate his first day of…
As a German kid, I had never encountered the inchworm, although I’m a child of the 1970s… It was invented in the early 1970s by Joseph M. Burck and produced by Hasbro. Burck fabricated his model with his old dryer hose and tested it on his own toddler 😉 It apparently worked, and kids love…
When running around on the playground, Lyons Cub stumbled upon something extraordinary–well, for a little boy: a lime hawk moth caterpillar! No, it doesn’t sting with its blue horn. It just looks a bit scary. It was rather big, about as thick and long as the index finger of an adult: It had tiny, white…
Disclosure: Some of the links below are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, I will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase. Kids love slime. Parents and grandparents probably less so (well, they are the ones left with the clean-up!). But nothing compares to…