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I know I am little late in the season for this now but still...

Don´t ever tell your kids that you ate their Halloween candy. Even if it´s just a joke. They do NOT find it funny in the least bit.

Dear Diary

Dear Diary,

My shelf

I go to kinder garden now. It´s nice to go in the morning with my dad. He takes me everyday and in the tram we listen to music together. My really like my teachers Nicole, Dolores and Annika.

But of course the best part of the day is when I get picked up.

My handprint paints a little hedgehog

My group is called the "chicks"

Toybox

Paint-soap is guaranteed to make bath time more fun. Aurora in particular doesn´t like bathing too much. But she sure loves to smear stuff around. Anything that makes her feel like she´s actually making things dirtier rather than cleaner is huge fun for her.

On the downside: when you take the tube away you get this attitude:  

Saubär at DM

Closet

How good is this??? 

Of course your pre-pre-puberty boy is going to get a cold chin during the winter! He can´t grow a beard yet! This hat-beard combination is the answer he´s been waiting for. How genius?!

On Etsy 

Cool Kids

The other day on the playground a boy (guessed age 7 or 8) came and sat with me and Aurora and out of the blue started the following most awesomely random conversation:

1. 

Boy: "Do you know what I hate?" 

Me: "No. What do you hate?"

Boy: "When kids are grown together, you know... Siamese twins. I know one pair that´s grown together at the heads, one at the shoulders and a dog too."

Me: "That condition is pretty rare, it´s a big coincidence that you happen to know so many." 

Boy: "Yeah, I saw pictures on the Internet."

Me: "Oh ok, on the Internet, I see."

Boy: "Yeah no, they´re not all my cousins or something like that. Did you think they were all cousins of mine?" 

2. 

Boy: "Do you know how old my great grandma is? 85!"

Me: "That´s pretty old."

Boy: "Yeah she´s not going to make it till 100 though. Maximum to 96."

3.

Boy: "In my school there is a huge gem and my teacher said that if the owner doesn´t show up I can have it. With the money I am going to buy myself a house when I move out. With the money that´s left over I´m going to buy myself some pets and if there´s still money left some food for them as well. I want a turtle and a lizard. I used to want a goat so I don´t have to go buy milk and cheese. "

Me:"You´re going to have to buy an aquarium for the pets to live in." 

Boy: "Can I ask you a question? Is it illegal to have a whole room for your pets?"

"And if the pets start freaking out I´ll just turn on the radio for them." 

Photo

She does love me, trust me. Just some times a little less than other times.

 

Utensils

 This little inconspicuous sieve has proven to be a real genius in the kitchen if you have a baby (I´m sure without the baby it´s very helpful too). You put a little water in the pot, place the sieve in the pot and cut your vegetables into the sieve - that´s it! 

Here is why it´s awesome for when you have a baby:

- for some reason it seems to me the vegetables get cooked a lot faster

- steaming the food is recommended by all the baby-food-guides over cooking them

- there are no worries of burning hot water boiling over, even if you went into the living room to find out why the little stinker has been so suspiciously quite for a while now and then forgot about the stove

- if you cook potatoes too long in water it always turns basically into soup because they flake and whatnot, it just seems so much messier, with the steaming-sieve, the vegetables aren´t over cooked right away and they´ll make it at least onto the plate

- I feel like the food soaks up less water too, so if you want to make crisp potato wedges this thing also helps

Is that enough reasons yet? 

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