Today was a special day for Lyons Cub. It was raining, so we didn’t drive to the animal park to walk around outside. Instead, we drove to three pet stores to visit the animals. He couldn’t pet them, but he got to look at bunnies and budgies in their cages, and—best of all—a clerk allowed…
Right next to bristle shapes, I would recommend magnetic building blocks as an educational toy for toddlers and preschoolers. They train the hand and brain, because kiddo has to assemble structures with the understanding of magnetic forces, which is not an easy task. (Although, once your kids find out that the fridge and the range…
Ahhh, finally!!! The otters were out. Maybe because it was a sunny day for a change (although it was quite cold for October, brrr… Lyons Cub wore a scarf and woolen hat for the first time outside). We made a trip to the Wildpark in Leverkusen again, in the hopes of seeing some animals that…
Lyons Cub loves parks, like the one with the climbing animals and exercisers, but most of all, he likes to pet animals. (Well, he grew up with two dogs, Honey and Sally, and two cats, Felix and Frankie, and several crested and gargoyle geckos.) So today, he was in for a treat. He had been…
Lyons Cub wanted to cut hair today–no, not his or mine, thankfully, but that of a little plastic doll that grandma lion found in an old box of her bigger grandkids’ stored play things. She brought a bag of playdough and utensils for play time yesterday, and my son excitedly stuffed the little dolly with…
Okay, so here’s something for the big builders among you: Feel inclined to spend many hours crafting a super-duper cool wooden marble race track table for your child? The one Lyons Cub and I found was in a Mall, but you can put one together at home with spare building blocks from eBay and an…
The time was right a couple of days ago to invest in BNTX shares again for Lyons Cub, when their price hovered at a low $246. I tried right from the beginning to give him a good start into a financially secure future, so I invested in different stocks I strongly believe in, such as…
Do your kids love those ride-on machines, too? Lyons Cub likes the ice-cream truck, Bob the Builder, the Minions’ space shuttle, the horse merry-go-round, and the fire-engine at the mall, but the bright red helicopter at the beer garden in the park with the climbing animals and the exercisers is something special. It costs one…
Also feel like you’re already consuming too many pre-Christmas treats and chocolates? We certainly are!! So it’s off to the park and onto the exercisers for us. Strictly speaking, this parcours was created for seniors (at least, that’s what a senior told me when my son started climbing, rotating, stepping on, and hanging from them),…
Looking for a great educational tool for your toddler builder? Next to Duplo, MegaBloks, and Lego, I discovered bristle shapes. Lyons Cub received a package from a dear friend for his second birthday. I remember them vaguely from my childhood in the 1970s and 80s as “Nopper Steckbausteine.” Curious, I looked them up and found…
It will be Christmas soon! Have you started creating your kid’s Christmas wish list yet? If not, it’s about time–you don’t want to be stuck in the Christmas rush, especially if you (like we) live quite far away from most family and friends and get many things by mail. The post offices will be overwhelmed…
Does your toddler also have the problem that the pants slide down his butt all the time? It’s important to me that my kid is well dressed. My son has short legs and is slim around the waist. This means that jeans and most types of trousers without an elastic waistband don’t fit him, since…
Already at 10 months of age, Lyons Cub saw a fire engine, but he didn’t enjoy this one, because it was at a pediatrician’s office in Michigan; he had gotten an ear infection while we were visiting relatives of Daddy’s. His love for fire engines remained unbroken, though. Of course, he had the little fire…
It’s the beginning of October, and the chestnuts are falling from the trees in abundance and knocking on the cars parked underneath. So we thought it’s time to collect some to make cute chestnut animals with grandma. We set out on a cloudy but dry day with a blue bucket and a green bag. An…