It’s 2:00 am and I can’t sleep yet; I’m too wound up. We’ve got company in the house, so I was up late cleaning the dishes and whatnot, then came to the computer to check email and was surprised to hear someone walking around in the night. Then I heard a door shut [...]

Around dinnertime, I popped the dish into the oven and headed out to pull some weeds in the flower garden. Captain Earthquake was having a snack in the kitchen and I told him I’d be back shortly.
In the grand excitement of weeding, I kind of lost track of time. Needless to say, I [...]

photo credit: tachyondecay
TechnoBoy usually completes his math assignments by starting at the last problem on the page and working backward to the first. Normally this isn’t a problem but every once in a while he neglects to notice that he’s not on the right lesson and accidentally works on the wrong one.
This happened [...]

Sing the Hokey Pokey to learn left and right.
Spin in circles while practicing your counting to 100
Offer a choice: “Do you want to read on the red couch or the brown couch today?”
Act out stories with Papo figures.
Draw a picture of the story you just read.
Go on a bike ride in the middle of the [...]

I love The Mercenary with all my heart. I do. And he really is a sweet boy. Honest. Ask his grandparents.
That said, he can be a bull in a china shop some days. Here are a few choice quotes:

“This is a waste of time.” We’d listened to [...]

I wrote my weekly post over at GNMParents about our adventures in sleeping with Captain Earthquake.