Posted on March 12th, 2007 by Writer
A few years ago, my five-year old was in the church Nativity play. He and other children practiced their roles in the play four several weeks leading up to the performance. On our way home from practices, he was full of questions about events and characters in the play. One evening, the children playing shepherds […]
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Posted on February 20th, 2007 by Writer
Deep Thinker built a spaceship out of lego’s, and Rowdy Rebel threw it on the ground. It broke in half (easy to fix though). So Deep Thinker was really mad, crying, and kept talking about it even after we fixed it–just all bent out of shape. I wanted to teach him about forgiving and moving […]
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Posted on January 10th, 2007 by Writer
This little story made me cry. I was walking my kindergartner home from school. As usual, I asked him how his day went, who he sat with at lunch, and who he played with at recess. He said, “I didn’t play with anyone at recess.” I asked why, and he explained that he waited in […]
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Posted on December 10th, 2006 by Writer
Rowdy Rebel’s favorite question is “Whassat!” (What’s that?) He says it very, very excitedly. And over and over. When we read stories before bedtime, my job is to turn pages and remain quiet while yells over and over and over, “Whassat!? Whassat!? Whassat!?” This morning, I walked in and Denise (our part-time nanny) was reading […]
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Posted on November 24th, 2006 by Writer
Deep Thinker and I love watching SpongeBob and reading SpongeBob stories. So, last night before bed, we were reading one we bought at a school bookfair. I was trying to do a SpongeBob imitation (which sounded exactly like SpongeBob, and extremely funny, in my opinion). After I read a few lines using the ‘SpongeBob voice,’ […]
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Posted on November 17th, 2006 by Writer
The other night, Deep Thinker and I were reading about gliding possums. (As many of you know, children’s books have some yucky topics–bugs that kill frogs, possums that fly, I’m serious, it gets crude, but the cruder it is, the more my boys seem to love it…). So, the book explained how the wings aren’t […]
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Posted on October 28th, 2006 by Writer
Rowdy Rebel’s now pointing to EVERYTHING all over the place and telling me the name. It’s fun to see how many words he’s learned. I have a shirt that Rowdy Rebel LOVES. The shirt has a bird on it. So the other day, he points to the head of the bird on my shirt and […]
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Posted on October 2nd, 2006 by Writer
Deep Thinker read his first word today. It was the word “he.” 🙂 This totally made me cry. We practice reading a lot now. He can sound out the first few letters of words and guess what they are based on the story beyond that.
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Posted on August 2nd, 2006 by Writer
So, cute story from yesterday. Deep Thinker is going to baseball clinic (camp) for four days. We were walking, and we passed a construction site with a crane digging a huge hole, and piling dirt to the side. There was a small mountain of dirt and gravel, probably 15 or more feet high. My son […]
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Posted on July 21st, 2006 by Writer
This story is slightly crude, but it has a funny and innocent element. Deep Thinker came in and told me he’d beaten up the Hulk in his video game. I said, “really?” and he said, “yes, I was Spiderman, and I did some web-slinging ass-kicking!” And I said, “Oh goodness, we can’t say words like […]
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