Dr. Dolittle

September 17, 2008 by Andrea · 1 Comment
Filed under: Art, Evan, Grayson

Over the past few weeks we have been reading The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle for the bedtime reading story. What an amazing hit! A naturalist–learning to talk to animals–exploring the world–exploring the ocean floor. I mean, my goodness! why don’t I just make a wish list for Evan and Grayson and request a book be written! We have summarized, made predictions, and been sorry when it was time for lights out every evening. What fun! Evan said tonight that this book would be ours forever.

We are already looking forward to another Doctor Dolittle story. I’m so glad there are several!!

These pictures show Doctor Dolittle with his parrot, Polynesia, and his dog, Jip.

Green Frog

September 10, 2008 by Andrea · 2 Comments
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I have not worked on pastels all summer! Since the fall season is coming (yeah!) I need to get cracking and get the emporiums stocked up. Inspired by my nature-loving children, I started out this time with salamanders. After doing three types, I wanted to try a frog. I am so excited that it looks like a frog! I’ve been playing around with some new techniques–using acrylics in the beginning stages and using water to change the pastel chalks. I’ve also worked with a pen to sharpen some of the outer lines. These are things I have wanted to try for a while. It’s been fun to get started again.

One wheel is all it takes

September 7, 2008 by Ben · 3 Comments
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I used to have a unicycle, long ago, maybe when I was 14 or 15. I can remember lots of trying and not too much progress being made for a while; though it was enough to keep me trying. I did learn to ride it and I was proud of the fact that I could do this thing (I knew no one else who could ride a unicycle).

Now, it’s many years later, and I requested a unicycle for my birthday this year. Andrea may not have known whether I was serious, but she took me at my word and gave me one! It sits and waits for me to ride it , and I practice when I can. So far, my top distance is about 20 feet, and usually I go about 5 before falling. But I have to say, it’s a thrill to ride it and I will keep at it. It’s a thrill to learn something new in a setting where the boys are learning, too. They are out riding their bikes as I practice on the unicycle, and they are excited by it. They shout, “go again, Dad!” and I try again. I fell off today and scratched my finger, and it was Evan who ran in to get a bandaid.

Here’s me riding today. I got pretty far…

Bendy Grayson

September 4, 2008 by Andrea · Comment
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We were practicing some yoga positions in the floor yesterday. Grayson is much more bendy than I am.

Grayson’s first day

September 3, 2008 by Andrea · 1 Comment
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Grayson was really ready to start his first day of Mommy and Me Preschool. He looks so big! He told me this morning that he was really feeling like a big boy. The sunglasses before heading out the door just cracked me up. He acted very shy when we got to Danielle’s house, but he was ready to go again the next day even though it wasn’t a Mommy and Me day.

Poem

August 29, 2008 by Andrea · 4 Comments
Filed under: Evan

Evan keeps a journal in his class at school. In it, there is space to draw as well as to write. When he came home, he said that he had drawn a book in his journal and then had written a poem inside of it:

I can read

I can write

I can tell a trilobite

Trains!

August 29, 2008 by Andrea · 2 Comments
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When Evan was four, it was trains trains trains–every day! That finally ran its course and the trains took some time in the closet, hoping to reemerge some day. Since Grayson so looks up to his brother and wants whatever his brother wants, I thought that our fun train set wouldn’t get much attention again. Well…since Evan has been back in school, Grayson has asked for the trains–every day! We have had a lot of fun trying to figure out how to set things up, without a helpful older brother to tell us a better way to do it.

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