Category: parenting
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Easy answer to : What’s for dinner?
It’s been the same answer for the past few weeks. She wants fresh pasta, she helps make it. Gather the ingredient, stir in water, break the eggs, measure the flour, mix, help roll the dough, cut into fettuccine or pappardelle, cook the pasta, wash the basil, mix with olive oil, add salt. I’m just the…
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Yes Kate, No Dad
Kate got mad at me for some reason and went back to her table to write me a warning note. She first said I was in trouble 🙁 “From Kate For Tony” “Yes Kate, No Dad” “I am getting mad at you”
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Kate’s Fifth Birthday Party: 23 kids
For Kate’s Fifth Birthday Party At http://mocha.org/ We had 23 kids, probably 18 parents packed into a 2 hour birthday party for Kate. I got up at 6:30am to cut up 3 cantelopes, 2 melons, 1 4lb papaya, 10 apples, 6 pears, 8 bell peppers. The dish I’m most proud of is this big bowl…
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Love from Kate
Kate: Do you know who I love the most? Tony: Mom? K: nope T: Me? K: nope T: Gandmom? Grandpa? Auntie Liana? Your best friend Olivia? You sister Lauren? K: nope, nope. I love all my family the same. This way no one would feel sad. It’s Kate’s 5th birthday this week., how she has…
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How To Talk About Death To Your Children (2006)
Cate has been watching Cinderella and other Disney movies which mention the subject of death of a family member. So she has been mentioning that subject to me. Does everyone die? Kids who are 5 years old don’t die for a long long time right? What does it mean to die? Dad, when are you…
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Dance performance this Sunday
I have been taking Kate to her dance lessons ever since she was 2 1/2. When she first started, she refused to participate and we spend nearly 2 months just sitting and watching. How time has flown. She was in a dance performance 2 years before and she frozed on stage. She skipped last year’s…
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Make Your Dreams And Wishes Come True
Kate came up with the phrase for a birthday card for her friend Pauline
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Name That Princesses
Kate did a wonderful drawing and I forget which princess was which. Snow White, Cinderella?? , Auora? Jasmine (jumping out of a bottle), Sleeping Beauty, Ariel
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Non Non Pas Moi
Kate’s drawing of me and her, after she translated my shirt from Paris . I had a big laugh when she wanted to write down what was on my shirt.