“THAT’S TOO LOUD”, says an annoyed and somewhat intimidated Cecily, who got to experience a fireworks show closer than she’s ever been before. Lily decided to do the evening on blades! We went to Pueblo, to the Riverwalk for the celebration. Fireworks and a live orchestra, playing, you guessed it, their idea of patriotic music […]
Rocking Chair Music
About a month ago, Lily lost it in a panic of tears and dread. She’d managed to pull the string on the music box, on the bottom of her rocking chair (previously mine, previously my mother’s). She panicked that she’d ruined it entirely, and came running to me for help. Russ managed to sooth her […]
Anti-Gravity Serum
Yesterday Lily and the neighborhood setup our family room for play; they turned it into a theatre, complete with snack bar and ticket counter. Lily was taking a turn as the associate behind the counter, so I ordered some anti-gravity serum. She turned around, picked up a cup, did something magical that I couldn’t see, […]
Let's Build a Boat
This morning, while we were watering the sunflowers in Lily’s labyrinth (maze eventually, after they grow a bit), she decided she wanted to build a boat. She brought to my attention a rock that she had placed in a bowl, and asked for a bin of water. I decided we’d have some fun. 🙂 […]
Spell That, Color That In, Tsunami's, Water's Energy, and Plate Tectonics
Japan, washed away in a moment of massive energy liberation due to the same. Take a pencil, bend from both ends. Watch… it will break. The earth is no different… but try to explain the shifting of chunks of ground, pressing against each other to the point where they start to bend and eventually break, […]
Spell That, Color That In, Tsunami's, Water's Energy, and Plate Tectonics
Japan, washed away in a moment of massive energy liberation due to the same. Take a pencil, bend from both ends. Watch… it will break. The earth is no different… but try to explain the shifting of chunks of ground, pressing against each other to the point where they start to bend and eventually break, […]
Early Mathematics, Surprised Me
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 […]
P aA P A
She wrote P, then a, and asked if she could make a big A because it is a much better A… So, the second P A followed suit. She shocked us at the end of July demonstrating out of the blue her ability to write Lily. She wrote MAMA sort of about two weeks ago, […]
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 […]
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 […]