Looking for a totally discouraging experience?  Follow these proven steps to motherhood angst, and you’ll be on your way!
First:  observe your toddler throwing the most irrational tantrums – knocking down dining room chairs, biting his big brother, hitting the dog, violently pullings plugs out of the wall, and clearing the kitchen counters with huge sweeps [...]

It’s not a phrase I say at all, so I guess I have my husband and kids to thank for last night’s Funny Toddler Moment at dinner.  We were eating pizza, and had ordered some breadsticks on the side.  My 2yo, who is apparently not very familiar with breadsticks, looked at them and asked:
What da [...]

In December I submitted a video to the Johnson&Johnson Health Channel on YouTube.  This week it was published as part of their video collection!  Check it out:

 
*DISCLOSURE:  As it says on the J&J website:  Some producers have received nominal compensation for use of their videos on this channel. >>that would be me
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My 2yo son started climbing out of his crib several months ago.  I joked with someone today that as often as he worked on it, you would have thought he was training for an Olympic sport.  Rather than fuss with a crib tent or go straight to a big boy bed, we came up with [...]

This video of my boys absolutely melts my heart and makes me giggle.  This one is destined to be a classic.

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Tell me I’m not the only parent who makes their kid repeat cute words over and over.  Poor Eli sometimes gets treated like a circus act – oooooh, see his tricks! – but honestly, his most recent words “c-kie” (cookie) and “pum-pin” (pumpkin) are just too delicious.  And because I love to torture him so, [...]

Now that my 2yo son is old enough to enjoy looking through books, oftentimes when he wakes up in the morning, I hear him over the monitor flipping through the pages of his favorite stories.  He mumbles and murmurs to himself, narrating scenes of puppies and robots and cars in the kind of gibberish that [...]

Instead of telling you in detail about how tyrannical our 2yo has become, I thought I would just draw you a picture representing the wealth of our time together recently:

Ahhhh….drawing that was a welcome distraction.  Now back to our regularly scheduled tantrums/fits/hits/and screams.*
 
*ps:  he’s really such a lovey-dovey boy, but is changing so much in [...]

Traditionally here at Tree, Root, and Twig, I write spotlights, reviews, and giveaways on products that companies approach me about and that I find relevant to our family’s needs and interests.  Periodically, though, I find products on my own that I would love to share, too.  Hence, I’m starting a new category called “My Find.”
My first [...]

Ok, I concede that this video is probably the kind of thing only friends and family will be lining up to see, but my 2yo is just too darned cute to not share with the world.
He’s crazy for the alphabet lately, and has learned to identify all the letters.  I have found a few games online [...]