Do any 3-year-olds willingly lie down and take a nap?
Grace doesn’t, but – really – she never has. Somewhere around 2 months, she stopped napping nicely and started resisting daytime sleep.
I should also admit that she’s been a great nighttime sleeper since that time. She was sleeping through the night (for 8 to 12 hours) around 2 months old. We got a trade off, I think.
Still, Grace needs a nap in the afternoon in order to be friendly and cooperative and enthusiastic and herself in the evening.
These days, Grace doesn’t …

I don’t know the details, but it’s dangerous for an in-ground pool to have too much water in it. It has something to do with the liner collapsing. Or something.
At any rate, last Thursday, we had several inches of rain in an afternoon. And then it rained on Friday.
Water had to come out.
I’m sure there’s some other way to remove the water, but the boys like to remove it by jumping and splashing.
Big boys and little boys do cannon ball jumps over and over and over. It splashes out more …

For the last six months or so, Grace has been really into three of her toys: her Fisher-Price Loving Family Dollhouse, her Littlest Pet Shop Pets, and her Polly Pocket.
We rotate between the three every single day, several times each.
To be honest, this pregnant Momma is not currently enjoying playing on the floor. I do enjoy playing with Grace, however, and I try to split my time between the couch and the floor.

We got the Littlest Pet Shop Cozy Care Adoption Center last week, and it immediately became Grace’s most-loved …

Grace and I were invited to Blogger Day at the Philadelphia Zoo this week.
Wow. Just wow.
Before we left, Grace and I checked out the Philadelphia Zoo’s website. We looked at pictures of many of the animals, and Grace decided that she was most interested in seeing the hippopotamus, the rhinoceros, and the parrot. I was excited about seeing the gorillas, orangutan, and otters.
Being 18 weeks pregnant, traveling alone with Grace, and knowing the temperature was to creep up into the 90′s with very high humidity, I made a mental plan …

Grace loves to read.
Actually, that’s not true. Grace hates to read, but she loves to be read to.
Whenever I tell her to read her book, she cries and says, But I don’t know the words! and then the whole thing goes south.
Quickly.
It may or may not have started to change, though. We’ve discovered some “ready to read” books that exchange some of the words for pictures.
Anyway, Grace would be happy to sit on the couch all day long and listen to books. I don’t allow that, tempting as it might …