Birthday Month Day 5 Update
Eye Spy can be an challenging game at meal time. "I spy w/ my little eye something that is red." "A cat." ..."Something that is brown." "A cat." "Something that is spotty. "A cat." "Something that is.. oh never mind."
It can be challenging while walking dogs on a dark country road too. "...Something that is yellow." "Pole light." "Something that is grey." Road.' "Something that is white." "Snow." Something that is... again, never mind."
So we stopped playing and sang all the kid show theme songs we could remember. Came home and read Winnie-the -pooh. End of day 4.
On this morning's walk I caught snowflakes on my tongue, no mean feat-there wasn't much falling, and tried to break ice, but the Canadian February ice gave me the finger. I'll try again later. Then came home and began my reread of favorite books.
Started with The Velveteen Rabbit. I have a number of copies of this book because each illustrator brings a new interpretation to an old favorite. Then read another favorite: Never Tease a Weasel. My sister Isabelle and I loved this book as kids. Moved on to Hans Christian Andersen. Read The Tinder Box, The Nightingale and The Snow Queen.
Lunch was a Happy meal. Ok so there's nothing unusual in this but I made sure to play w/ the Hot Wheels car and put the stickers on it. After work my Goddaughter, her mother and I went to see The Woman in Black where I had a seriously blue slurpie, M&Ms and popcorn.
The icing on the cake was introducing them to The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Not a childhood thing- I was 22 when the original Terminator came out- but there is no celebration so cool that it cannot be made better by the most awesome kick-ass female characters ever fighting giant robots. And one of them's a cyborg.
It can be challenging while walking dogs on a dark country road too. "...Something that is yellow." "Pole light." "Something that is grey." Road.' "Something that is white." "Snow." Something that is... again, never mind."
So we stopped playing and sang all the kid show theme songs we could remember. Came home and read Winnie-the -pooh. End of day 4.
On this morning's walk I caught snowflakes on my tongue, no mean feat-there wasn't much falling, and tried to break ice, but the Canadian February ice gave me the finger. I'll try again later. Then came home and began my reread of favorite books.
Started with The Velveteen Rabbit. I have a number of copies of this book because each illustrator brings a new interpretation to an old favorite. Then read another favorite: Never Tease a Weasel. My sister Isabelle and I loved this book as kids. Moved on to Hans Christian Andersen. Read The Tinder Box, The Nightingale and The Snow Queen.
Lunch was a Happy meal. Ok so there's nothing unusual in this but I made sure to play w/ the Hot Wheels car and put the stickers on it. After work my Goddaughter, her mother and I went to see The Woman in Black where I had a seriously blue slurpie, M&Ms and popcorn.
The icing on the cake was introducing them to The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Not a childhood thing- I was 22 when the original Terminator came out- but there is no celebration so cool that it cannot be made better by the most awesome kick-ass female characters ever fighting giant robots. And one of them's a cyborg.