| From Fall 2008 |
Friday, November 14, 2008
Friday, November 7, 2008
Snow
Waking up this morning to a light dusting of snow and a little more coming down I instantly felt the quiet of winter. There's a sense of peace for me that I get from the snow, until about February, then it's just bitter cold, unless it's snowing, then the peace even takes away the bitterness. Hmmm, the first snows, waxing nestalgic.
Snow, Snow, do you like the snow? Yes or no?
Do you like it in your face? Yes, Yes I like it any place.
Thanks--P.D. Eastman
Snow, Snow, do you like the snow? Yes or no?
Do you like it in your face? Yes, Yes I like it any place.
Thanks--P.D. Eastman
Monday, November 3, 2008
Fixing my tractor
We finally put batteries back in Magoo's remote controlled tractor but as it was played with outside a little this fall it wouldn't drive straight. I said, "Let me take a look at it and see if I can fix it." Magoo said, "Let me get my tools, I'll fix it." So I looked at it saw that one of the tires was slipping from the "gear" and so the other tire would go consistently causing the tractor to turn, there didn't appear to be a fix so I tried messing with it and tested it out and it still drove all crooked like. So Magoo picks it up, says, "I need my screwdriver." Find it from his tool kit, flips over the tractor and begins working on it. Gives it a test drive and it drives straight. Dad, if you're listening, thanks for sending him mechanical skills!
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| From Fall 2008 |
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| From Fall 2008 |
Halloween: pumpkins, friends, tricks and treats!
We had a great family evening watching "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" and carving our pumpkins, complete with pizza! Magoo had been asking for a month or more what's in the pumpkins we got from the garden. When we cut his (from the orchard not our garden) open and he had to reach in to get out the guts he wasn't so sure, in fact needed a lot of talking into it.
But after a while, he finally got into it.
The best part was of course, getting to carve it. He knew exactly what he wanted, "a rectangle here"one "here" and "a big circle here, for the mouth."
Then a "little circle, right here [between the eyes, despite my suggestions]."
Voila! the finished product. After they were placed on the steps and lit, Brad said, "I love Magoo's, it looks like it's yelling, "Get off my lawn!""
The next morning we had invited some friends over for some pumpkin fun! We had ghost peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches, spooky party mix, juice with eyeballs (grapes), bone (string cheese) fingers, pumpking popcorn balls, a little candy, and a friend brought a wonderful plate of Halloween cookies and another brought a wonderful caterpillar! We had a "Haunted" hallway with a cave in the back (and some glow sticks to see the way, lots of dress-up hats, we made clothes pin ghosts, felt jack-o-lanterns, and ended with trick-or-treating to each of the moms to fill up our bags and get in some practice for the big event!
After a much needed nap and dinner we were ready for round two, tricks or treats in the neighborhood. Mama and Papa had tried to convince Magoo to be Bo Duke AKA a race car driver (as he was very resistant to the "Bo Duke" idea), he had also mentioned, an elephant, a tomato, a construction driver, an egg. We had a bug costume from a month earlier but that never seemed to be of interest. Then I was talking to his daycare teacher and she said he had been saying a bug all week! In the meantime I had been building a race car hoping at the last minute he would go for it, and if not we'd figure out something else. When I asked him if he wanted to be a bug or a race car driver he said, "A bug driving a race car." Finally we had a costume!
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| From Fall 2008 |
But after a while, he finally got into it.
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| From Fall 2008 |
The best part was of course, getting to carve it. He knew exactly what he wanted, "a rectangle here"one "here" and "a big circle here, for the mouth."
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| From Fall 2008 |
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| From Fall 2008 |
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| From Fall 2008 |
Voila! the finished product. After they were placed on the steps and lit, Brad said, "I love Magoo's, it looks like it's yelling, "Get off my lawn!""
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| From Fall 2008 |
The next morning we had invited some friends over for some pumpkin fun! We had ghost peanutbutter and jelly sandwiches, spooky party mix, juice with eyeballs (grapes), bone (string cheese) fingers, pumpking popcorn balls, a little candy, and a friend brought a wonderful plate of Halloween cookies and another brought a wonderful caterpillar! We had a "Haunted" hallway with a cave in the back (and some glow sticks to see the way, lots of dress-up hats, we made clothes pin ghosts, felt jack-o-lanterns, and ended with trick-or-treating to each of the moms to fill up our bags and get in some practice for the big event!
After a much needed nap and dinner we were ready for round two, tricks or treats in the neighborhood. Mama and Papa had tried to convince Magoo to be Bo Duke AKA a race car driver (as he was very resistant to the "Bo Duke" idea), he had also mentioned, an elephant, a tomato, a construction driver, an egg. We had a bug costume from a month earlier but that never seemed to be of interest. Then I was talking to his daycare teacher and she said he had been saying a bug all week! In the meantime I had been building a race car hoping at the last minute he would go for it, and if not we'd figure out something else. When I asked him if he wanted to be a bug or a race car driver he said, "A bug driving a race car." Finally we had a costume!
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| From Fall 2008 |
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