Next up on the 50 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do itinerary is… drumroll… #34: Deconstruct an Appliance. Actually, a camera we picked up from the thrift store, although we would like to deconstruct a blender or other…
Ashton’s thumbsucking days may officially be coming to a close. After 20 days of no sucking, her flitter fairy arrived in the mail (on the exact day, thank goodness!), and she is really so happy to have a…
Fifty Dangerous Things has officially begun here at the Jones house with #23: Break Glass. Sorry to break several of your mason jars, dear mother-in-law, but hey, when you gotta break glass you gotta use what you got.…
Awhile back, we watched a TED video called Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do. The speaker, Gever Tulley, sold us on the merits of giving our children freedom to learn and explore, control and manipulate,…
If you didn’t read yesterday’s post, go there first to view the drawings Ashton has been diligently creating. Today she and Matt, and Cedar too, put them together into a book. We now have a special section on…
Ashton’s drawings are getting much more detailed lately, and she’s been at it quite a lot over the last couple of weeks. This stack of drawings will soon be turned into a book and play. The interest in…
Ashton brought out an armful of big cardboard boxes along with containers of ribbon, paper, pipe cleaners, glue, and glitter. She declared that she was going to make and decorate a fairy house. Ahem… glitter? On giant cardboard…
Oh January, oh winter, will you please end soon so we can go outside and play? The wind here is bitter cold– too much even for us Montanans– so inside we will continue to stay for awhile. Even…
I think the green blanket showed up as a gift when Ashton was born, and you can see by the photos below that it has remained an important piece in her life. We have supported Ashton fully in…
I was thinking about asking Ashton soon if she’d like to work on copying pictures from books, but she went ahead and did it before I even had a chance to mention it. When she is excited…
