I’ve been thinking about issues of scale recently. I am working on a 10-story office building at work and when you’ve looked at lines on paper for a long time you forget about the massive scale of the real building. …
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Too Big to Understand
Posted in Parenting, San Diego Tagged with: locomotive, museum, number two, parenting, scale, titan, train, trucks
Ground Bound
When you’re half the height of an adult human you live in a completely different stratum. Instead of teetering around on stilt legs you scuttle around near the ground like a millipede. Falling down is no problem—you can practically bounce…
Posted in Parenting Tagged with: activity table, cars, floor, number two, parenting, toddlers, train table, trains, trucks
The Day a Firetruck Came to Our House and Other Fine Adventures
You have no idea what an exciting world we live in. Really, you don’t. Maybe your synapses are scorched, your eyes filmed over, your heart ossified, but there are everyday things around us that are REALLY AMAZING. I took Number…
Flying With Toddlers, Part Two
The long return from our vacation required us to cross the continent, and like the return leg of a boomerang’s flight, we were losing energy and altitude fast. Since Child Harbat is staying an extra two weeks with grandparents on…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: airplane, airport, flying with toddlers, number two, parenting, richard scarry, travel
Land’s Edge
Stop Two: a borderland with the biggest horizon you’ll ever see. A place where sand and salt coat everything in a sticky gritty sheen. A place where the hush of foam on the beach follows a contra-bass thump as water…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: beach, child harbat, duck, number two, ocean, outer banks, vacation
Out and About
It’s been a long overdue vacation for the family. First clue: we took a five-hour plane ride, about an hour too long for The Boy. Child Harbat was fine, even pulling a piece of luggage larger than her. She was…
Posted in Events, Parenting Tagged with: airplanes, CH, flying, flying with toddlers, number two, plane
Skinny Dipping
To start off, I apologize to all those who came look for racy pictures. This happens with some of my posts, like “Gruesome Crime Scene Photos”, “Rainbow! Unicorns! Rainbow Unicorns!”, and “Click Here to Make Money Spew Out of Your…
Reading Time with Kids
I’ve been reading to my kids for over five years now and have found some great books and some clunkers. I’ve learned that while Child Harbat, previously Baby Harbat, would happily sit still for a prolonged book reading session, The…
Everybody Needs Something To Do
Boredom liquefies the brain. We are not only social animals but working ones. Don’t let the stereotype of slack-jawed youth fill your head–today’s young ones are energetic and ready to do their part! Already at one and a half, Number…
The Happy Children
The end of the day is tough for everyone. Child Harbat is usually over-stimulated and tired, Number Two has had a full day of preschool and has no idea how to read his body’s own cues that he is accelerating…
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