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The Gateway Acrobatic

While these sweet little somersaults are all in good fun I’m afraid of what this fearless girl will think of next! Forward, backward, sideways; in the air,  on the ground… off the furniture or the walls… who knows!...

‘A’ is for Art

I’ve been faced with the problem of how to handle the constant stream of arts and crafts coming home with E from daycare week after week. I love each piece so much I can’t ever bare to toss anything in the trash. As you can imagine, the finger paintings accumulate at alarming rates and there will never be enough square footage to display each one. So until her first gallery opens, I had the brilliant idea of devoting a whole page on Smart at What I Know to Emerson’s art! Check out the new ‘A’ is for Art link in the navigation at the top of the page to see Em’s...

House Painting 101

Back in December I asked Emerson several times what she wanted for Christmas. For whatever reason she replied each time with great enthusiasm, “I want to paint a bird’s house, mom!” My first thought? Thank God she can speak because I never would have guessed that! My second thought? What in the world… A few weeks passed and she was still set on this bird home improvement craft — reminding me often. Gaga came to the rescue finding a bird house in the closet previously painted by aunt Mimi (maybe it runs in the family). Emerson was thrilled to makeover the bird house in a lovely shade of pink she...

Tuesday with Emme

Sitting fireside in thermal p.j.’s with my tea-partying tike is the perfect way to spend this frigid day. It’s the bite in the air that led to the broken water main which caused the closure of daycare which led to this Tuesday at home with Em. I can’t help but to feel like the best gift ever has been given to me today! While it’s wonderful to be with family every day, I have been missing these special one-on-one moments with E that I had once had in abundance… … Several hours later Emerson is asleep and I’m imagining the amount of destruction a toddler would be capable of without...