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This is year five for us! It can be a bit of a hassle if you have travel plans or just a super busy week, but it has always been worth it. We also joined a CSF which brings us goodies like sustainably fished swordfish and the best scallops we've ever tasted.

i love billy's vanilla cupcake recipe. its easy and makes spongy, not-too-sweet cupcakes with the perfect crumb. here's a link

http://www.food.com/recipe/billys-vanilla-vanilla-cupcakes-167664

alas--my life will never be this organized *sigh*

Joe Colombo Boby Cart. Google it and you can find them in all kinds of colors and sizes.

Christopher Daniels! I love his work. It's a political and a bit dark, but its all in crayon!

http://www.christopherchanningdaniels.com/paper/sometimes-i-dream-this-world/

Great post! Especially since I am about to enter into big girl bed territory with my 3 year old (she finally stopped with the jimmy legs). Does anyone have any experience with the mattresses at Land of Nod?

This doll is cracking me up. Any kid that gets a Barbie generally strips her and redresses her anyway. Only grown-ups really care what she's wearing out of the package.

I played with Barbie as a child. I asked for one and I got it. My parents didn't believe in censoring the world, but explaining it to me. I think that approach fostered intellectual curiosity. Instead of simply denouncing something as bad, I could explain why it wasn't a good idea.

As far as Barbie was concerned, my mother simply told me that real women don't look like this. She's a doll, period. We made clothes for her from fabric scraps and painted her in magic marker. Cut her hair and virtually destroyed her. But she was able to perform her doll function as being an outlet for imagination and making us believe that we could become rock stars or cowgirls or doctors or veterinarians or even dominatrices.