The Accessories We Added to Our Fairy Garden This Year Earlier this season, I wowed the boys by putting together a dinosaur miniature container garden, which Sawyer promptly claimed as his own outdoor dollhouse with dirt. Every time he’s outside, he rearranges the accessories and makes “RAWR!!!” noises with the tiny plastic dinos. In short, …
A Prehistoric Fairy Garden for the Future Paleontologist Crowd When your three-year-old goes around telling random strangers he’s “faster than a Gallimimus” (and said strangers look at him like WTF is a Gallimimus), it’s time to plant the kid a dinosaur garden. Last year, the boys helped me with our first magical fairy garden and …
Tell my kids we’re going to look a sculptures outside and Easton would probably start whining instantly. But hand them a map and tell them we’re going on a troll hunt … well, that’s a game changer. The trolls at the Morton Arboretum are a new exhibit that opened in June, a series of six …
This may be the shortest blog post you’ll ever read. Here’s my best advice for hiking with little kids: Just don’t do it. Wait, you still want to? You can’t resist the Pinterest pictures in your head of walking sticks and climbing rocks and leafy green forest everywhere? OK … but don’t say I didn’t …
