Lately, life, has been a battle with a small little child. His older brother sleeps at night. C has different plans. But the last two nights  he has slept by himself in his crib without feeling the need the involve mommy . This is marvelous. I don’t think anything we tried actually worked. But I’m glad that C started to sleep anyway. He is lots happy now that he isn’t sleep deprived.

Last week was mail week. We mailed letters, read stories, looked for mailboxes and stalked postman. The most successful activity was a mailbox for Peter, hung up in his room. He placed mail in through the slot, and checked his mail far too frequently until a few days later when it fell down.

I also made the wonderful discovery of a free ink pad. I like stamps. They are fun. But ink stains, and I have never felt the need to go buy an ink pad. After a bit of googling, and thinking I came up with a solution: baby wipes and food coloring. It worked wonderfully. It was also basically free, disposable, and doesn’t stain as bad as an ink pad.