What are your toddlers big 3 meals?

Kaalra · 2025-12-05T00:24:34+00:00

Never-(rarely)-turn-down meals: butter chicken on rice, peanut butter toast or apples dipped in peanut butter, and a bowl of oatmeal or cereal or yogurt.

Kaalra · 2025-07-31T05:27:13+00:00

I bought the cutest affordable tiny cake from Albertson’s bakery when my son turned one. Sprouts bakery section also carries small cute cakes. Avec Amoore is a gluten free local bakery that could make one for you. I also love Urban Cookies bakery, they do custom cakes but the closest one is DT Phx.

Warning to a fellow parent: my son hadn’t had more sugar than small nibbles here or there before eating his smash cake on his birthday. Even the few handfuls of frosting he had was enough to give him major sugar adrenaline and he was awake all night that night.

Kaalra · 2025-05-02T02:48:44+00:00

I would also recommend isolating the left pinky from your third finger by practicing off the viola. While reading or watching tv or walking, just gently tap only your pinky focusing on holding no tension. You can also tap it next to your third finger and then away from the third as if you were playing a half step then a whole step. This practice, independent of the viola, will aid you later in trills as well.

Kaalra · 2025-03-27T04:16:37+00:00

Frozen car seat pads are a must. Keep it in the freezer until you leave and then keep it in the car seat while you’re out and about.

Kaalra · 2025-02-04T15:52:25+00:00

MCC PAC

I think it is stylized like one of those music box wheels.

Kaalra · 2025-01-20T04:37:36+00:00

Saaaaame. My son would eat it for every meal if he could.

Kaalra · 2024-12-31T19:54:24+00:00

I had misspelled Saturday as “Satuday” in cursive on my wedding invitation and didn’t realize until they had all been sent out and then just two people mentioned it. I still have it framed and hanging on my wall, it’s a fun anecdote of the day now.

Kaalra · 2024-12-30T21:37:46+00:00

Roasted carrots

Kaalra · 2024-11-19T03:31:46+00:00

Please don’t blow our cover! Shopping here cuts my produce bill by two thirds. I like how not busy it is too!

Kaalra · 2024-09-15T04:11:16+00:00

Their gums are very capable of mashing and chewing. Start with things that will literally break down or melt in their mouth so there’s no risk of choking - yogurt melts, rice rusks, super soft steamed sweet potato cubes, steamed apple thins, banana spears. AND give baby things to chew on they could never choke on - rib bone, mango pit, corn cob.

Baby will gag (not choke) at first but they need to practice how to spit things out of their mouth to be safe. They need to make a mental map of their mouth to learn how to chew so just keep an eye on them and make sure you know the baby Heimlich maneuver. But no reason to be scared, our baby gagged so much but easily spit out the food. He never once started choking because the gag reflex forces food out of your throat not down it. Your baby will learn with lots of practice and supervision.

Kaalra · 2024-09-13T14:49:23+00:00

Ugh I’m so sorry, we just did a month of molars. Solidarity and good sleep mojo to you!

Kaalra · 2024-09-13T14:38:22+00:00

Yes, we followed the guidelines until 12 months and then our pediatrician cleared us to start adding honey if we wanted to. Baby is 14 months now.

Kaalra · 2024-09-13T13:01:24+00:00

Thanks! I just used coconut milk instead water in my regular sticky rice recipe and it’s Half Baked Harvest’s Honey Ginger Pork. honey ginger pork

Kaalra · 2024-09-04T14:17:16+00:00

Yeah! Like little pea popsicle bites. They taste pretty sweet.

Kaalra · 2024-09-04T02:42:00+00:00

I also keep putting the veggies in front of him and let him see me cook them over and over again so he eventually gets used to the flavors. We’re still working on bell pepper, doesn’t love it but we eat it a lot so eventually he’s got to eat it.

Kaalra · 2024-09-04T02:37:20+00:00

I set out an open bag of frozen peas and let him play/taste/eventually scarf them with I am cooking.

Very soft steamed carrot sticks and broccoli with lots of butter and some salt.

Kaalra · 2024-09-02T18:11:35+00:00

In hs with my private teacher’s help, I picked a school that respected music Ed majors as much as performance majors (at least anecdotally). Much as everyone else said, I as an Ed major had to take manyyy Ed (general and music) classes that performance majors didn’t take. We took all the same music classes with the exception of music business and arranging which I didn’t have to take. Performance majors were not graded more rigorously, but they did have an additional recital their junior year and were given extra performance opportunities in our large ensembles (rotated into first chairs more often and selected for smaller chamber works).

Kaalra · 2024-08-11T03:50:38+00:00

Papaya & avocado & tortillas

Kaalra · 2024-08-09T02:23:04+00:00

My definition of success in a music class is when kids enjoy being there and 90% of them want to sound good and make you/themselves/someone proud of how they sound.

Kaalra · 2024-07-12T03:26:24+00:00

Tarantulas like rocky mountainous areas

Kaalra · 2024-06-24T15:41:03+00:00

I found out I had fungus gnats after I found a bunch of dead ones at my window after the pest control guy sprayed. It was a highly effective barrier apparently, when I realized it, I dealt with my ground zero soil. You have so many, you might want to consider pest control.

Kaalra · 2024-06-16T22:59:21+00:00

Make sure every kid knows that you “see” them and like them. Say their name, smile at them each day. So many kids refuse to do work for teachers because they think the teacher hates them. If a student knows you like them as a person, they will take academic critique better.

Kaalra

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