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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 |
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 |
Monday, October 20, 2008
A very big ostrich
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| From Fall 2008 |
Magoo and I were drawing on a white board this morning when he decided to draw a "mana" (banana) you'll see one on the bottom. The second mana was then turned into a robot. Then he deliberately and carefully drew a round body, two legs coming down, a neck or tail to the left, a circle wing in the middle, and another line off to the right. He had been asking me to draw a giraffe so that's what I was expecting, but instead he said, "A very big ostrich, don't ever touch it unless you ask a grown up." He later added claws to the legs so "be careful, there's claws." I can't tell you were he gets these ideas but I'm glad he's obviously soaking up a lot from somewhere!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Fall Orchard
Magoo has been learning a ton at school. I'm sure it's due to both a mental growth spurt but also exposure to new and more things at school. We asked him today if he knew what an orchard was he said, "Yeah." a typical answer to this type of question, then foolishly we always ask him the follow up question, "What is an orchard?" Today he surprised us, straying from scripted, "I don't know" to "Where fruit grows on trees." What a smarty.
We both had a half day off of work today and being a nice day took him up to Afton Apples. We had a fantastic time, though, I was a little disappointed in the orchard, I think of it as being a little more expensive but you get more out of it, you did get tractor drawn hay rides and both an orchard and a pumpkin patch, but other than that I'm not sure it was worth it. I hope I remember this in the future and stick with the more local homegrown, not bigger-more-expensive-is-better orchards in the future.
None-the-less we had fun, we road the tractor hay rides around, picked apples, walked through the pumpkin pasture (as Magoo called it) and each selected a pumpkin, then played on the swings a little, finally fed the animals. I have to tell you it was hilarious, the donkey started coming to the fence when he saw Magoo had food, when I bent down to take a picture the donkey let out the loudest, longest bray I've ever heard from donkey. Magoo buried his head in papa's lap but didn't cry, just said, "That was loudest I ever heard."
Is that a worm hole?
Look I picked an apple.
Need I say more
Picking a pumpkin from the pumpkin pasture
We both had a half day off of work today and being a nice day took him up to Afton Apples. We had a fantastic time, though, I was a little disappointed in the orchard, I think of it as being a little more expensive but you get more out of it, you did get tractor drawn hay rides and both an orchard and a pumpkin patch, but other than that I'm not sure it was worth it. I hope I remember this in the future and stick with the more local homegrown, not bigger-more-expensive-is-better orchards in the future.
None-the-less we had fun, we road the tractor hay rides around, picked apples, walked through the pumpkin pasture (as Magoo called it) and each selected a pumpkin, then played on the swings a little, finally fed the animals. I have to tell you it was hilarious, the donkey started coming to the fence when he saw Magoo had food, when I bent down to take a picture the donkey let out the loudest, longest bray I've ever heard from donkey. Magoo buried his head in papa's lap but didn't cry, just said, "That was loudest I ever heard."
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