Responsibility – Page 2

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 […]

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 […]

A Mind Wide Open, Beautiful Curiosity, Biology, Bugz & Her Explorations, Care & Nurture, Compassion, Confidence, Demonstrating Empathy, Developing Self, Lils, Playing, Responsibility, Science Discoveries, Self Esteem, Simply Nature

Her Eggs

“I will become a mother. I have eggs to grow.” “Lils, you’re a cat…” “A Chicken-Cat.” Well, then. Ok. The video attached was filmed (is that what we still call it?) by Lily, with the assistance of Russ. Note: discover.cecilynixon.com has become, per the conversation that followed after she made the video, discover.cecilynixon.com. She’s already […]

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STEM, Optics First, Robots Next

After learning about the STEM program at our local university a few weeks ago, I spoke with Lily about her interest and upon her request began the process of trying to get her accepted, given that the requirement was a minimum of 4th grade. As we are not utilizing “grades” and she already meets about […]

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Lily Bakes

I told Lily that I didn’t want her to bake in the kitchen the other day because it was a mess and I already felt like I couldn’t keep up… I was mostly flat on my back and the kitchen was not cleaning itself. She wanted to bake cookies. I told her that I’d get […]

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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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Horses, Seatbelts, London, & Teenagehood

This past weekend, Labor Day 2013, Lily had a few firsts she found much delight and enjoyment experiencing. _________________________________________________________________________________________ First, we spent most of the week in Red River and so she got to ride her bike all over a town she’d never ridden in before. She rode solo and attached to me, and got […]

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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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Painting and the Mud

Lily assisted in painting the front room today, and she spent a good bit of time with me the day before yesterday splatting mud on the wall in the laundry room. I have had to skip trowel the entire room to compensate for the tile glue, wall paper, and missing sheet rock. I am very […]

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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 […]