Lily popped into our room this morning with a smile! Up on the bed, she announced, “I had a most wonderful dream!” I asked her to tell me a bit about it and she stated that it was just a yucky dream but then got better, and was most wonderful. Sometimes she will recall a […]
What's Your Name Today?
Madeline Super Martian Robot Girl Super Martian Robot (strong, climbing, fast) Girl…. and other adjectives often tacked on after “girl”. Luis Bunny Madeline/Luis/Little Fish… and Angie is Noodah and Ms. Bell… Papa is Dayduh (Star Trek on both the Noodah and Dayduh…) — London is Genevie (from Genevieve on Madeline) Not to be missed – […]
Reptilian, Smelly and Slimey
Waitress Read Bracelet (make me more) What sort of lights are those? Abstract some? What does _________________ mean? …. A fav new game. What we did on Thursday.
Scenes and Something
Yesterday we endeavored to create a theatre for Lily to direct a few scenes with the Yo Gabba Gabba crew! I think it took me probably 3 hours to get it all together, but once complete, she had 4 lands/scenes and 5 characters. She instantly started assigning which characters belong in which land. She had […]
Great, Great Grandma Forbes Wears Again!
Grandma & Grandpa (Russ’s side) gave Lily a sweater this Christmas that came from deep within the family. Mary Forbes made Russ a sweater many years ago and now, Bugz is wearing it. She is aware that Papa’s great grandma made it for him, and her rationalization was, “So, it’s really old”. She comprehends the […]
We Live on the Earth
The sun wakes up because we go to sleep. And we live on the Earth. The moon is a very little planet. Well, it’s not really a planet, it’s a satellite. A satellite? Ok. So, why do we only live on the earth? Because the earth is the only planet in our solar system […]
A Part of Our Solar System
Lily has decided that Luis (from Meet the Robinsons) is definitely a part of our solar system. “So is Jupes.”
Lily's Universe
Cecily loves her galaxy. Tonight, we observed the planets of our solar system hanging from her ceiling, with the Milky Way Galaxy projected behind them. Pretty awesome stuff.
Dealing with Death
Our neighbor’s wife died a couple of weeks ago; we found out at 4am this morning (neither Russ nor I could sleep – sick – and happened to get a late night email from our neighbor explaining the details). Tonight Russ went over to spend some time with our new friend and we tried to […]