General site news and happenings

The English language is a crazy thing, isn't it? I got this one in an email today and thought it was interesting, given this site has a children's dictionary and all:

The letter combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all:

I was reading a blog over on http://www.phdinparenting.com and came across an interesting snippet on baby names in Germany:

The myth of "When naming your child, go for as original as possible"

It's getting colder now, so we bought nice new full length fuzzy pajamas for the toddler. They are the sort that are in one piece, with long sleeves and long legs with feet and press studs down the front. Her old pajamas are a singlet style one piece with press studs at the crotch. Both purchased for the same reason - so she can't take them off at night.

It is becoming clearer and clearer that the root of most of Aisha's annoyances is she simply can't tell when people are paying her attention, and thus acts inappropriately a lot of the time. Like just now.

We finally have a good concrete example of bad things happening when you talk to people without them listening to you.

On Friday, Aisha slid down a rope too fast and got a ropeburn. She told the teacher.