July 27, 2026

Category: Invention

A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, Biology, Botany, Care & Nurture, CDE Standards Reference, Compassion, Construction, Developing Self, Empathic Awareness, Engineering, Geometry, Imagination, Invention, Lils, Math Discoveries, Movement & Coordination, Physical Development, Playing, Responsibility, Self Awareness, Simply Nature

Houses, Castles, & Questions

I’ve decided that to best keep track of my own mind, as well as attempt to record the finer points of Lily’s development and her day, that I really have to just leave a post window open all day long. I see it, I write, I add pics, whatever… Today began with Lily showing us […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Artistry, Beautiful Curiosity, Bugz & Her Explorations, Chemistry, Geography, History, Imagination, Invention, Lils, Movement & Coordination, Neurological Development, Physics, Science Discoveries, Society & Culture, Storytelling / Recollection, Thought Process & Development

The Stone Age

In keeping with Eep, we worked on our own cave paintings today. We learned about the El Castillo cave drawings, and how it is believed to be the oldest known example, dating some 40,000 years. This would be caveman era, and the symbols were of hands and sun. We learned how the pigments were created […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Biology, Care & Nurture, CDE Standards Reference, Compassion, Demonstrating Empathy, Engineering, Geography, Invention, Kindness, Lils, Literacy, Neurological Development, Playing, Responsibility, Self Esteem, Self Management

A Distinct Possibility

This week, while we spent a few days in Red River hoping to have a chance to lend a hand at the stables, Lily was able to explore and develop a few cool new tricks. Cecily began riding a two wheel bike this summer; she commenced her balancing act on 12″ wheels.  Shortly thereafter, she […]

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Is That Our CecilyBugz??
A Mind Wide Open, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Developing Self, Engineering, Imagination, Invention, Lils, Playing, Responsibility, Self Awareness, Self Esteem, Thought Process & Development, Writing

Is That Our CecilyBugz??

  Lily heard the highschool marching band playing from our bedroom window this evening.  She disappeared for about 10 minutes and returned like this!  Formerly, she was in something that resembled Pippi and pj’s.  She indicated she was “Ready to go see what they were doing!”, and was quite disappointed when she learned that they’d […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Artistry, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Construction, Developing Self, Engineering, Imagination, Invention, Lils, Playing, Self Esteem

Clothing Designer and Creator

Lils has recently decided she can sew and be like her grandma… she says she’s an awesome sewer.  I reply that she is quite the seamstress.  She responds, “Huh? Nope, I’m a sewer like my grandma.” Ok. ___________________________ So far, I haven’t managed to capture a pic of anything she’s created except this dress (er, […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Artistry, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Construction, Drawing, Engineering, Imagination, Invention, Lils, Movement & Coordination, Music, Storytelling / Recollection, Thought Process & Development

"Those are musics, they sound like this…."

She decided to make a camera the other day.  She harvested the Discovery Kids Tornado box, chopped and sawed, taped and glued, and ended up with a box that looks like the camera that Shawn (of the Shawn the Sheep) uses (90’s style video).  She then decided to mount it, offering the explanation that she […]

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A Mind Wide Open, Art, Artistry, Bugz & Her Explorations, CDE Standards Reference, Engineering, Geography, Imagination, Invention, Lils, Math Discoveries, Responsibility, Science Discoveries, Self Awareness, Society & Culture, Storytelling / Recollection, Thought Process & Development, Writing

BRAVE fille

Lily is sometimes Merida, sometimes Elinor as a bear, and today, she’s a little and nice version of Mor’du. She’s beginning to memorize the movie in French.. We ordered a How to Draw Brave Characters book, which has been in constant use since its arrival. First, she now knows what a character is… Second, she […]

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