toddlers – Toulouse and Tonic https://toulouseandtonic.com Making my kids hate me one post at a time. Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:39:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.17 39181224 Confessions of a PlayGroup Hater https://toulouseandtonic.com/confessions-playgroup-hater/ https://toulouseandtonic.com/confessions-playgroup-hater/#respond Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:45:38 +0000 https://toulouseandtonic.com//?p=6473 I haven’t been to an official “playgroup” in years but now I have a toddler again and since he’s now the same age Asher was when I was taking him to playgroups, I’m having flashbacks.  I don’t think I’ll be doing it this time around and here’s why.  I confess.  I hated playgroup. I went […]

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]]> https://toulouseandtonic.com/confessions-playgroup-hater/feed/ 0 6473 Fook it. https://toulouseandtonic.com/fook/ https://toulouseandtonic.com/fook/#comments Wed, 07 May 2014 22:14:15 +0000 https://toulouseandtonic.com//?p=6138 There’s nothing like a cursing toddler to make you check yourself, is there?  It wasn’t until Asher (6) was first starting to talk that I even thought about what a potty mouth I had. Years of working in music, spending time in bars and being around my foul-mouthed friends (do you like the way I […]

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]]> https://toulouseandtonic.com/fook/feed/ 4 6138 The More Bang For Your Buck Gift Guide for Toddlers https://toulouseandtonic.com/the-more-bang-for-your-buck-gift-guide-for-toddlers/ https://toulouseandtonic.com/the-more-bang-for-your-buck-gift-guide-for-toddlers/#comments Sun, 08 Dec 2013 03:59:46 +0000 https://toulouseandtonic.com//?p=5729 This post is several years old (my kids are now 9 and 4) and I just went down the list and I still stand by everything I said. These are the things they played with the most and the longest. At 9 and 5, they are still playing with the magnatiles, the gears, the bath […]

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]]> https://toulouseandtonic.com/the-more-bang-for-your-buck-gift-guide-for-toddlers/feed/ 6 5729 The One Where The Baby Puts His Finger In My Mouth https://toulouseandtonic.com/the-one-where-the-baby-puts-his-finger-in-my-mouth/ https://toulouseandtonic.com/the-one-where-the-baby-puts-his-finger-in-my-mouth/#comments Tue, 29 Oct 2013 02:15:05 +0000 https://toulouseandtonic.com//?p=5603 “Eye,” the baby says, shoving his chubby little finger into my eye socket.  “Eye!” I grab his finger and gentle-up his prodding. “Yes, eye,” I say.  I point at mine.  “Mommy’s eye.”  I point at his.  “Meyer’s eye.” He smiles with pride at his accomplishment. “Where’s mommy’s nose,” I ask.  “Nooooose?”  Drawing it out, inflection […]

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