Today, Lily and I spent the day in Chama, NM. Russ was working on a new site build, so she and I went exploring. We walked a couple miles into town, found basically um, nothing, except a place to have lunch. While at lunch, she and I colored a couple pages full of fairies and […]
Anatomy Answering Session
I don’t usually have a chance to capture the interactions with Lily, unless it’s her idea or she doesn’t know about it. Today she acquiesced. While what follows is just her answering me, not initiating as such (though she initiated the activity originally), there are often times when she begins to talk and inevitably teach those […]
Self Directed? A Slight Bit Perhaps
Bugz has taken to dressing herself almost exclusively now. That generally means as some character either from her imagination or from some external source she’s taken a liking to. Today she was a purple wind fairy. She ate breakfast with us, and then disappeared to her room. About 40 minutes later, she emerged, dressed, and […]
Sooooooooooo, What's Adoption?
I asked her to give me her idea of it first.. Twas an interesting conversation. We continued our discussion… She decided the concept is a good one, and one with which she is already intimately aware! In a manner of speaking, given that our way of thinking is that Russ and Angie were, and then […]
What Do You Wanna Be When You Grow Up?
Taking this from a FB posting… Thierry says to Ray: I have read your comments on someone else’s wall about graphing calculators. I am of a “in between” generation: I have never had a slide rule–too young–and never had a graphing calculator–too old. That being said, I am a geek, and thought at some point […]
All About October 18
Lily graced us with the privilege of sharing her memories of both the day she joined us on the outside, and while still inside. She shared many of her memories with me, just me, about 6 months ago. I wrote in detail then what she spoke, as I will now. To date, Lily has seen […]
Singling Bowls
That’s what she thinks it is, anyway. Got this today for $.25 (yes, that was twenty-five cents) at the local thrift! Woohoo! Anyone care to take a gander at the amount of learning, discovery, and development is going on here? Lily has learned to click it, whack it with the mallet, and is trying to […]
Word Construction, Roller Blades, Helping, Ratio, and Headed North?
Yeesh, the last two days have been full! Lily made a new friend yesterday, and today decided to roller blade with them (and the entire run of kids on our street), as well as Russ and I around the neighborhood. She has learned how to have mama on her blades while Lils enjoys a very […]
Flinging Planetary Rings – They Make Great Boomerangs!
We watched a Zula today on the planets and their rings. So, rings are made of ice, dust, and rock… “Mom? Why are the rings stuck around the planet like that? Why don’t the rings orbit on their own? Cecily comprehends gravity well. She also understands the relationship between orbits and gravity, as well as […]
Helicopters, Fire Trucks, and Mama WITHOUT a Camera
Yes, that’s correct. Only mine and Lily’s memories will hold this experience visually.. I didn’t actually expect she’d get to do anything but glance at it from the car, so I didn’t grab the phone. I walked outside this evening after a helicopter flew over our house, so low that I assumed someone was in […]