Posted in Cute Kid Stories on May 16th, 2007 1 Comment »
Kids copy us, and they are keen observers of everything we do, even when we think they aren’t paying attention. Here is a funny conversation that I overheard yesterday:
DaycareBoy: “My elbow hurts, just like my Grandma. So I can’t pick up anything heavy.” Clutches elbow dramatically and refuses to pick up a toy.
Carbon: “Well, my […]
Posted in Cute Kid Stories on Apr 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
The other day, Carbon and I were having a discussion about herbivores and carnivores (it must have been either when we were reading about wolves or when we were watching I Dig Dinosaurs), and I said that we were omnivores. He asked what an omnivore is, and I said “something that eats everything”. A poor […]
Posted in Cute Kid Stories on Apr 2nd, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve been making an alphabet book with Carbon, creating a page a month. We do crafts for things that start with that letter, and then put either the original or a picture in his scrapbook. While we are concentrating on a letter, I frequently ask him to find the letter during our reading time or […]
Posted in Cute Kid Stories on Jan 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
As I’m getting dressed for a night out …
Carbon: “Mommy, are you going to be the prettiest in the theater?”
Me: “Probably not. There are lots of pretty people, and different ways to be pretty.” (notice how hard I’m trying here?)
Carbon: “Well, Mommy, I think you are as pretty as a fish.”
Isn’t it heartwarming? Actually, fish […]
Posted in Cute Kid Stories on Jan 6th, 2007 2 Comments »
“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere”
G.K. Chesterton
“Art is pattern informed by sensibility”
Sir Herbert Read
“Art is what you can get away with”
Marshall McLuhan
“Beware of artists - they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous”
Queen Victoria
“Artists are people who make big messes - Look Mommy, I’m an artist”
Carbon, after he […]
Posted in Cute Kid Stories on Dec 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
Last year, I built a solar system model with Carbon, and it has been hanging on the ceiling of his room ever since. We made it from a kit that was styrofoam balls and wires, and he painted all the planets.
Of course, that was before Pluto was downgraded to a planetoid, so we had it […]
Posted in Domestic Bliss, Happy and Healthy Childhoods, Cute Kid Stories on Nov 16th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve been incorporating more yoga into my exercise routine, and at first it was really hard to work it in around the kids. Then I got some extra yoga mats as hand-me-downs, and the kids just naturally wanted to unroll their very own mat and play at doing yoga while I was doing it. It […]
Posted in Cute Kid Stories on Nov 11th, 2006 3 Comments »
I’ve been talking to Carbon about where he lives - trying to get him to memorize his address and phone number. It seemed like a good idea to go to mapquest and show him the aerial view of our neighborhood. We could get a pretty good zoom in, and even see details of our yard! […]
Posted in Cute Kid Stories on Sep 15th, 2006 No Comments »
My husband has been trying for months to get our baby daughter to say “Daddy”. She recently said “mama” for the first time, and he was even more interested in getting her to say “daddy”. He tells her “say daddy” all the time, over and over and over again.
I’m usually the one that feeds her, […]
Posted in Cute Kid Stories on Aug 9th, 2006 3 Comments »
I think it’s really funny what Carbon’s first sight word has turned out to be. I think STOP was my first sight word, because I saw it all the time on the stop signs, and because Go, Dog, Go was my favorite book as a toddler.
But what does my son see all the time? Apparently, […]
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