“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 […]
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 […]
BOT
“Buh, ahh, tuh” “What’s that spell?” “Bot” “What letters make the word ‘bot’?” “Beeee, ohhhhh, ppeeee” “Those letters make ‘bop’.” “Oh, oh, oh, beeeeee, ohhhhhh, tuhtuhtuhteeeeee.” “Yep.” Lily is generating/spelling words both tangibly (like with fridge letters and foam, etc..) and virtually (abstract). In the last week, she has begun to decide to read […]
Word Building
Cecily launched herself into the realm of og, ug, ag in, un, an, and FROG, TREE, FREE, and other 4 letter words today. And to think, just yesterday I was commenting on a current assessment that she hadn’t yet developed a comprehension that spanned greater than 3 letters. WELL…….. THAT was yesterday. We used the […]
Word Building
Cecily launched herself into the realm of og, ug, ag in, un, an, and FROG, TREE, FREE, and other 4 letter words today. And to think, just yesterday I was commenting on a current assessment that she hadn’t yet developed a comprehension that spanned greater than 3 letters. WELL…….. THAT was yesterday. We used the […]
A & T, Last Tuesday
On May 17, Cecily’s ability to read and build words solidified. While she is still developing an awareness and knowledge base of many of the letter combinations (since English is so straight forward, after all), she is demonstrating a reliable and solid comprehension of the concept of word construction, sound, parts of a word (at […]
Recognizing Fouled Hay
London pees. Lots. Grass is notoriously annoyed by it.. in fact, it ceases to exist in the presence of it. Today we raked up a bit of dead grass, and even with watering and snow, and rain (haha), it reeeeked. London’s pee is so seriously pungent that the entire area smells of it (it’s not […]
Aug, 2010 | March, 2011
Then & Now And Now… She started spontaneously singing this, along with the dialog that follows. I tried to encourage her to give me a little more footage, but discovered singing in a whisper is well, I sound like I’m 6. AND she copies me (on the quiet factor). But, hey, it was worth it […]
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 […]
Of Christmas Past
Lily let me put the christmas tree away. 🙂 She did all of that.