I've mentioned before that R loves princesses. She told me last night that she dreamed she was a princess. She wants to wear sparkly dresses or princess dresses every single day. She plays with her Cinderella figurines as well as the princess dolls Santa brought her all the time.
I asked her day care teacher whether she talks about princesses at school as often as she does at home.
The answer? Yes.
I then asked if the other girls in the class were as into princesses as R is.
The answer? No. One girl is actively anti-princess and had a "Go, Diego, Go!" 4th birthday party. Three others like princesses off and on. And 2 others like princesses a lot but not as intensely as R.
Now, I know this might just be a phase. She was obsessed with Dora for awhile. And she still likes Dora but doesn't ask for Dora constantly anymore like she used to. So maybe this will pass. I just don't want her to be already fixated on "being beautiful" and things like that.
We've been talking about the importance of being healthy and strong, playing up the strong aspect from Mulan as well as the importance of working hard (Tiana and Cinderella) and being kind towards others. But that doesn't stop her from asking me 2-3 times a day whether she can wear "lipstick" (really just a touch of chapstick) and insisting on tights and dresses and skirts and looking princessy.
What do you think? Should I worry? Or should I just go with it?
Monday, January 31, 2011
Happy 33rd Birthday, J!
J turned 33 today. We had a nice quiet celebration two days ago with Grammie and Grampie and chocolate cupcakes with peanut buttercream frosting. I tried filling them using a pastry tip but the frosting was a little too thick and didn't really work well with the pastry tip. If I had softer and/or thinner frosting it would've probably worked better. Next time. The cupcakes were still yummy.
He got an Akron Zips hat, sweater, and a bunch of games and toys, including a Lego model of a Star Wars Star Destroyer that he had fun putting together the other evening.
He got an Akron Zips hat, sweater, and a bunch of games and toys, including a Lego model of a Star Wars Star Destroyer that he had fun putting together the other evening.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
This year's Snowman
We got a big storm mid-week that pretty much shut everything down Wednesday night and Thursday. It actually started by snowing overnight Tuesday and J and R went outside and made a snowman in the morning on Wednesday while J was shoveling. It was perfect snowman snow--heavy and wet and packing VERY well.
Then Wednesday night the really big storm hit and we got around 10 inches of snow. Sadly, our snowman did not survive the storm. You can see his "remains" in the picture below.
But it sure did look gorgeous out on Thursday morning.
Click on the "snow" tag below to see the post about last year's snowman.
Then Wednesday night the really big storm hit and we got around 10 inches of snow. Sadly, our snowman did not survive the storm. You can see his "remains" in the picture below.
But it sure did look gorgeous out on Thursday morning.
Click on the "snow" tag below to see the post about last year's snowman.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
R's review of tonight's dinner
"It's a little bit spicy but very very yummy!" (She was eating creamy cauliflower soup with brazil nut pesto.)
Sadly, it was not as big of a hit with J. I think he will be having a few bowls of cereal tonight.
Sadly, it was not as big of a hit with J. I think he will be having a few bowls of cereal tonight.
Monday, January 24, 2011
He said "puppy"!!
I have been working with RUS on saying all kinds of things lately and tonight he clearly and distinctly said "puppy" and pointed to his big soft puppy that Santa brought him for Christmas! He is seriously on the verge of some kind of explosion language-wise because he is so so close to saying all kinds of things.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Parent-Teacher Conferences and RUS's 15-month appointment
So we had parent-teacher conferences today with RUS's day care teacher. The low-down is that he is a wonderful, wonderful boy and they love him dearly. We talked a bit about how amazingly well-adjusted he is--one of the things his teacher said that she'd never really seen before was how well he adjusted to life at day care as a 10-month old. He started at the center in August, about 7 weeks before his first birthday, and from day one he has been 100% fine with being dropped off. No tears, no crying for mommy or daddy, no "where am I?", etc. In fact, his teacher said that she kept waiting for the shoe to drop, but it never did. He just seamlessly moved from not-in-daycare to being in daycare, and he is just a really happy, easygoing kid. If he could, he would live on the climber. He loves to go around and around and around and around on that thing.
The bulk of the conference focused on discussing RUS's developmental progress as they observe it at the center. They administer two kinds of assessments and basically present their observations to us. We talked about our reactions and whether we were seeing some of the same things.
There are four main areas of assessment: Personal/Social/Emotional, Motor Skills, Cognition, and Communication. RUS has met or exceeded all the milestones for his age group in Personal/Social/Emotional and Motor Skills, and he had several "emerging" skills in Communication and Cognition.
In Cognition, he is learning to (but does not consistently or always) "retrieve household (or classroom) objects from usual locations on request" nor does he "put away objects in correct places and notice when they are not in the correct place." We talked a bit about how this might be in part due to the relatively busy nature of the infant classroom as it is--the room is fairly small and there is not a lot of dedicated storage for specific items. At home it is a little bit of the same thing, and I'll be honest: we haven't really involved him in clean up a whole lot, other than to motivate him to put things in a basket or to move books back to the general shelf area. So it's something we can try to encourage more of.
In Communication he's a little bit behind as he's still working on a few 12-month skills such as imitating familiar two-syllable words with and without syllable change (e.g., "mama"; "uh-oh")-- he does imitate some things and he says a relatively limited range of sounds, but he does not just try to imitate whatever we are saying or really vary what he says in response to what we say to him. Basically, he's not really talking a whole lot. He signs, as I've posted about recently, and he communicates well. We know he can understand everything we say, and we are not at all concerned about a hearing loss because he can hear noises I can't and identify them. He just doesn't really change up what he says.
As of now, he regularly--and often--says "mamama," usually referring to me but sometimes it is just him babbling mamama; "uh-oh"; "ah-ah-ah-ah"; dada; "at" (we think, referring to the cats). At school they taught him to say "no" but we don't hear this at home. There's more I'm forgetting, too. He can also say "neigh" and "baa" and "eow" (for meow), and we've been working on a few others ("moo", in particular). So we talked about ways we can motivate him to try and talk more, and the thing that was emphasized several times is that it's not something to worry about--YET. It is something to keep an eye on.
Here's an excerpt from some guidelines his teacher provided for us:
"Toddlers 12-18 Months
"Toddlers at this stage should begin to watch others in their environment. They develop the ability to show emotion in their body language and babbling. They will begin to show understanding, or receptive language skills by pointing to objects when asked to do so or by following simple directions.
"During this period, delays may be a concern if the child:
In other news, we had his 15-month pediatrician check up too. He weighs 22 lbs exactly and was almost 31 inches long. This put him at somewhere between the 10th and 25th percentiles in weight and between the 25th and 50th percentiles in height, the same curve he was on at his 12-month appointment, too. He got 2 shots and cried, but calmed down well.
The bulk of the conference focused on discussing RUS's developmental progress as they observe it at the center. They administer two kinds of assessments and basically present their observations to us. We talked about our reactions and whether we were seeing some of the same things.
There are four main areas of assessment: Personal/Social/Emotional, Motor Skills, Cognition, and Communication. RUS has met or exceeded all the milestones for his age group in Personal/Social/Emotional and Motor Skills, and he had several "emerging" skills in Communication and Cognition.
In Cognition, he is learning to (but does not consistently or always) "retrieve household (or classroom) objects from usual locations on request" nor does he "put away objects in correct places and notice when they are not in the correct place." We talked a bit about how this might be in part due to the relatively busy nature of the infant classroom as it is--the room is fairly small and there is not a lot of dedicated storage for specific items. At home it is a little bit of the same thing, and I'll be honest: we haven't really involved him in clean up a whole lot, other than to motivate him to put things in a basket or to move books back to the general shelf area. So it's something we can try to encourage more of.
In Communication he's a little bit behind as he's still working on a few 12-month skills such as imitating familiar two-syllable words with and without syllable change (e.g., "mama"; "uh-oh")-- he does imitate some things and he says a relatively limited range of sounds, but he does not just try to imitate whatever we are saying or really vary what he says in response to what we say to him. Basically, he's not really talking a whole lot. He signs, as I've posted about recently, and he communicates well. We know he can understand everything we say, and we are not at all concerned about a hearing loss because he can hear noises I can't and identify them. He just doesn't really change up what he says.
As of now, he regularly--and often--says "mamama," usually referring to me but sometimes it is just him babbling mamama; "uh-oh"; "ah-ah-ah-ah"; dada; "at" (we think, referring to the cats). At school they taught him to say "no" but we don't hear this at home. There's more I'm forgetting, too. He can also say "neigh" and "baa" and "eow" (for meow), and we've been working on a few others ("moo", in particular). So we talked about ways we can motivate him to try and talk more, and the thing that was emphasized several times is that it's not something to worry about--YET. It is something to keep an eye on.
Here's an excerpt from some guidelines his teacher provided for us:
"Toddlers 12-18 Months
"Toddlers at this stage should begin to watch others in their environment. They develop the ability to show emotion in their body language and babbling. They will begin to show understanding, or receptive language skills by pointing to objects when asked to do so or by following simple directions.
"During this period, delays may be a concern if the child:
- continues to show little eye contact with caregivers and other children;
- appears to show a limited range of emotions;
- has not begun to say simple words for common people and objects;
- cannot point to two or three major body parts such as his head, arms, feet, or legs;
- does not point to familiar objects or people when asked or cannot point to pictures of common objects when asked;
- seems uninterested in his environment; and
- does not try to get others' attention or interaction."
In other news, we had his 15-month pediatrician check up too. He weighs 22 lbs exactly and was almost 31 inches long. This put him at somewhere between the 10th and 25th percentiles in weight and between the 25th and 50th percentiles in height, the same curve he was on at his 12-month appointment, too. He got 2 shots and cried, but calmed down well.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Superlative
In the mornings while eating her cereal R likes to ask me and J to read everything on the box. Yesterday she had me read the back of the box several times. She points and says, "read that part," or "read ALLLLL of it" (said while waving finger around entire area of box).
Anyway, the particular cereal she was eating yesterday had a blue pop-out box with the following text on it: "It's the best of what we know . . . superlative and unsurpassed just sounded a bit like bragging."
I said to her, "Do you know what superlative means?"
She shook her head.
I said, "It's like saying 'the best' or 'the most.' When something is superlative it is the most or the best of something."
She goes, "Oh, like princesses!"
Yes, R, like princesses.
Anyway, the particular cereal she was eating yesterday had a blue pop-out box with the following text on it: "It's the best of what we know . . . superlative and unsurpassed just sounded a bit like bragging."
I said to her, "Do you know what superlative means?"
She shook her head.
I said, "It's like saying 'the best' or 'the most.' When something is superlative it is the most or the best of something."
She goes, "Oh, like princesses!"
Yes, R, like princesses.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Another Connecticut Trip
J and I had a great time visiting Connecticut and hanging out Saturday at his grandmother & aunt's house with his brother and sister-in-law and Little Frog. We had a belated Christmas exchange and had a lot of fun catching up with everyone. Here's a photo of J, R, RUS, and I with Little Frog.
The kids had a blast playing together running all around the house!! RUS pulled out all the pots and pans from under the stove and banged them together while R and Little Frog dressed up in Tinkerbell and Cinderella dresses and carried lanterns from room to room going on a bear hunt. Later they had fun hanging out together on Little Frog's snow tube.
The next day R and Little Frog went sledding at the same park J went sledding on as a kid (even Grammie sledded there when she was a little girl, too). RUS and I stayed back at GiGi and PopPop's house and visited with Great-Aunt T. 
and then we all went down to southern CT for a playdate with two other friends of mine and their families. It was so much fun! We were served a decadent lunch of vegan chili, cornbread, and the. most. scrumptious. coffee. cake. EVER. from a place called Claire's Corner Copia that I think J and I really need to go visit in person the next time we are in Connecticut.
On top of just plain having a great time hanging out and getting to talk about such important topics as the wonders of Keurig coffee makers, the joys of DIY remodeling your kitchen, babywearing, and super-duper tips for organizing one's house, we had a ton of fun watching the kids all have a blast together. In fact, the three 3-year-old girls played together like they had been friends all their lives, and let me tell you, there is nothing sweeter than the sound of children squealing in laughter!!! J really had them all going when he let them all bury him in couch cushions. You can't even SEE him under those cushions--they really had him well-covered up!!!!
After hiding J, the girls all wanted to hide too, so they ran around the house hiding here and there and everywhere. A favorite hiding spot was in the bedroom closet (see picture, below) as well as on the bed underneath the quilt.
Here's the best shot we got of all three girls together:
And of course, we can't leave out the younger members of the get together, even though the three-year-olds definitely stole the show. They were so funny, and just so much fun to watch. Here's the two-month-old, who, astoundingly, slept through half the get together, even with all the children running around pell-mell in the living room . . .
. . . here's the 10-month-0ld who army-crawled everywhere--he definitely didn't want to be left out of the action . . .
. . . and of course, 15-month-old RUS, who found intense enjoyment in finding doors that were open and closing them. You can see me peeking through a door that RUS has just closed in the picture below.
And I just love this last one of him. It's just so sweet!
(caveat: none of the pictures in this blog post came from our camera--J's brother took the first three and the remainder were taken by one of my friends at the get-together).
The kids had a blast playing together running all around the house!! RUS pulled out all the pots and pans from under the stove and banged them together while R and Little Frog dressed up in Tinkerbell and Cinderella dresses and carried lanterns from room to room going on a bear hunt. Later they had fun hanging out together on Little Frog's snow tube.
The next day R and Little Frog went sledding at the same park J went sledding on as a kid (even Grammie sledded there when she was a little girl, too). RUS and I stayed back at GiGi and PopPop's house and visited with Great-Aunt T. 
and then we all went down to southern CT for a playdate with two other friends of mine and their families. It was so much fun! We were served a decadent lunch of vegan chili, cornbread, and the. most. scrumptious. coffee. cake. EVER. from a place called Claire's Corner Copia that I think J and I really need to go visit in person the next time we are in Connecticut.On top of just plain having a great time hanging out and getting to talk about such important topics as the wonders of Keurig coffee makers, the joys of DIY remodeling your kitchen, babywearing, and super-duper tips for organizing one's house, we had a ton of fun watching the kids all have a blast together. In fact, the three 3-year-old girls played together like they had been friends all their lives, and let me tell you, there is nothing sweeter than the sound of children squealing in laughter!!! J really had them all going when he let them all bury him in couch cushions. You can't even SEE him under those cushions--they really had him well-covered up!!!!
After hiding J, the girls all wanted to hide too, so they ran around the house hiding here and there and everywhere. A favorite hiding spot was in the bedroom closet (see picture, below) as well as on the bed underneath the quilt.
Here's the best shot we got of all three girls together:
And of course, we can't leave out the younger members of the get together, even though the three-year-olds definitely stole the show. They were so funny, and just so much fun to watch. Here's the two-month-old, who, astoundingly, slept through half the get together, even with all the children running around pell-mell in the living room . . .
. . . here's the 10-month-0ld who army-crawled everywhere--he definitely didn't want to be left out of the action . . .
. . . and of course, 15-month-old RUS, who found intense enjoyment in finding doors that were open and closing them. You can see me peeking through a door that RUS has just closed in the picture below.
And I just love this last one of him. It's just so sweet!
(caveat: none of the pictures in this blog post came from our camera--J's brother took the first three and the remainder were taken by one of my friends at the get-together).
Cousins!
We managed to get R and RUS together with their cousins for four days after Christmas this year. We met up with my parents, three of my four brothers, and two of my three sisters-in-law in Louisiana at A and M's house and had an absolute blast, staying through New Year's Eve. It was really really nice to connect, and to have some extended time for the cousins to get to know one another and play and have fun. And of course, seeing my parents, my brothers and my sisters-in-law is always good for my soul.
I sent ahead of our arrival two big boxes of baked goods and my mom brought along all the things I didn't make, and my dad and brother made batch after batch of Christmas tea punch and we just had a grand old time.
G and R had the best time together. They were like peas in a pod, really, and R had so much fun exploring all the boy toys that G has that we don't have as much of at our house. No princesses, but lots of dinosaurs, cars, trains, and trucks!
Here they are right before the family Christmas exchange dying to open presents--they were seriously trying to make little tears in the wrapping paper to see what the presents were! J and I had to stand guard to be sure they didn't actually go ahead and unwrap them!
Here's Little T eyeing the presents!!
The day after the Christmas exchange was G's birthday, so we had a party for him (and for A, whose birthday is the first week of January). M made an amazing cake that R and G could hardly wait to get their hands on. Here they are, with J sitting guard making sure they didn't dip their fingers into that frosting before the cake was cut!
And here's a close-up of the cake. It was awesome.
One of G's birthday gifts was this T-ball set (which Grammie and Grampie also gave to R). The kids had a blast with it, and we're already looking forward to breaking it out this spring with R and RUS!
Trucker and RUS are 8 months apart, and really didn't play that much together since they are at totally different developmental stages, but it was funny to see them staring at one another. There were several episodes where they just stood and looked at one another. RUS liked pulling Trucker's pacifier out, and Trucker would purposefully stand right in front of RUS waiting for him to pull it out.
I was really really impressed with how well Little T played with the trains. He loves them! And he's really good at getting them set up and running the trains around the tracks. While digging through the different trains I found a set of letter trains that spelled G's name, but I couldn't find all the different letters. Little T found them, too and lined them up in this picture.
And here's a shot of all the cousins--I wasn't brave enough to try and wrangle all the kids together except when they gathered to watch an episode of Thomas one evening. Aren't they just precious? It was really, really wonderful to see them all together--we're already trying to figure out plans for this year's Christmas!
I sent ahead of our arrival two big boxes of baked goods and my mom brought along all the things I didn't make, and my dad and brother made batch after batch of Christmas tea punch and we just had a grand old time.
G and R had the best time together. They were like peas in a pod, really, and R had so much fun exploring all the boy toys that G has that we don't have as much of at our house. No princesses, but lots of dinosaurs, cars, trains, and trucks!
Here they are right before the family Christmas exchange dying to open presents--they were seriously trying to make little tears in the wrapping paper to see what the presents were! J and I had to stand guard to be sure they didn't actually go ahead and unwrap them!
Here's Little T eyeing the presents!!
The day after the Christmas exchange was G's birthday, so we had a party for him (and for A, whose birthday is the first week of January). M made an amazing cake that R and G could hardly wait to get their hands on. Here they are, with J sitting guard making sure they didn't dip their fingers into that frosting before the cake was cut!
And here's a close-up of the cake. It was awesome.
One of G's birthday gifts was this T-ball set (which Grammie and Grampie also gave to R). The kids had a blast with it, and we're already looking forward to breaking it out this spring with R and RUS!
Trucker and RUS are 8 months apart, and really didn't play that much together since they are at totally different developmental stages, but it was funny to see them staring at one another. There were several episodes where they just stood and looked at one another. RUS liked pulling Trucker's pacifier out, and Trucker would purposefully stand right in front of RUS waiting for him to pull it out.
I was really really impressed with how well Little T played with the trains. He loves them! And he's really good at getting them set up and running the trains around the tracks. While digging through the different trains I found a set of letter trains that spelled G's name, but I couldn't find all the different letters. Little T found them, too and lined them up in this picture.
And here's a shot of all the cousins--I wasn't brave enough to try and wrangle all the kids together except when they gathered to watch an episode of Thomas one evening. Aren't they just precious? It was really, really wonderful to see them all together--we're already trying to figure out plans for this year's Christmas!
Friday, January 14, 2011
Pictures from Christmas Morning and My Blog-Related New Year's Resolution
We had the most lovely Christmas. I'm very very late putting pictures up, partly because I keep having grand notions of writing out a long blog post where I detail all the wonderful things that happened and tell you about the things we did and said and laughed about and had fun doing. But it's getting to the point where I need to just slap these pictures up or they're going to end up languishing far too long.
I'll also mention here that one of my New Year's Resolutions is to finish putting up blog posts about all the things we did in Japan for Local Hero and Local Heroine's wedding.
Santa left a few things unwrapped for the kids to find right away! A giant stuffed puppy for RUS and Cinderella and Prince Charming dolls for R.
The polka dots were a hit! RUS especially loved picking them up, and later in the morning R used them to put dolls on and to pretend to cook with.
Stockings!!!
But before we open stockings, let's play dolls!
Look at all these stocking goodies!!!!!!
TIGHTS!!!! (R absolutely loves wearing dresses and these tights are her favorite things to wear underneath her dresses.)
A Tiana doll!!!!
Richard Scarry's Cars, Trucks and Things That Go. R loves looking for Goldbug on each page and RUS just loves to point at everything.
Mulan!!!!!!!!
Touch and Feel Dinosaurs!!!! RUS is really into books with textures he can feel and these touch and feel books are awesome. (Great gift if you have a baby in your life you need to shop for, even if that child has older siblings--these books get pretty beat up.)
Now it's R's turn to open some books. These ended up being some books for her LeapFrog Tag Reader.
This pancake set was a huge hit for RUS--he cooked with it all morning! It's now all mixed in with our regular food in the kitchen set but I seriously bet if we pulled it out he would immediately gravitate towards it. His favorite part? The utensils, of course!
I think this is one of the last things that got opened, aside from gifts for J and I, which we ended up opening later in the morning (and have no pictures of). Boy, we were worn out after all that opening!
My little boy is plumb tuckered. Grampie gave him a soft place to rest after all that unwrapping.
Our living room looks like a toy store exploded!!!!!! (By the way, that large red package you see in the middle of the picture is my new, super-awesome, three-bin laundry sorter. Much needed.)
This was one of R's MOST favorite gifts this year--a Cinderella doll with magnetic dress-up clothes. This particular dress was blank, and it came with a pink dry-erase marker for her to decorate Cinderella's dress herself. She spent at least half an hour creating this one.
Later in the day she worked on eating one of her stocking stuffers and
tried on her new Cindrella dress-up dress, which has been a HUGE huge, HUGE hit.
I'll also mention here that one of my New Year's Resolutions is to finish putting up blog posts about all the things we did in Japan for Local Hero and Local Heroine's wedding.
Santa left a few things unwrapped for the kids to find right away! A giant stuffed puppy for RUS and Cinderella and Prince Charming dolls for R.
The polka dots were a hit! RUS especially loved picking them up, and later in the morning R used them to put dolls on and to pretend to cook with.
Stockings!!!
But before we open stockings, let's play dolls!
Look at all these stocking goodies!!!!!!
TIGHTS!!!! (R absolutely loves wearing dresses and these tights are her favorite things to wear underneath her dresses.)
A Tiana doll!!!!
Richard Scarry's Cars, Trucks and Things That Go. R loves looking for Goldbug on each page and RUS just loves to point at everything.
Mulan!!!!!!!!
Touch and Feel Dinosaurs!!!! RUS is really into books with textures he can feel and these touch and feel books are awesome. (Great gift if you have a baby in your life you need to shop for, even if that child has older siblings--these books get pretty beat up.)
Now it's R's turn to open some books. These ended up being some books for her LeapFrog Tag Reader.
This pancake set was a huge hit for RUS--he cooked with it all morning! It's now all mixed in with our regular food in the kitchen set but I seriously bet if we pulled it out he would immediately gravitate towards it. His favorite part? The utensils, of course!
I think this is one of the last things that got opened, aside from gifts for J and I, which we ended up opening later in the morning (and have no pictures of). Boy, we were worn out after all that opening!
My little boy is plumb tuckered. Grampie gave him a soft place to rest after all that unwrapping.
Our living room looks like a toy store exploded!!!!!! (By the way, that large red package you see in the middle of the picture is my new, super-awesome, three-bin laundry sorter. Much needed.)
This was one of R's MOST favorite gifts this year--a Cinderella doll with magnetic dress-up clothes. This particular dress was blank, and it came with a pink dry-erase marker for her to decorate Cinderella's dress herself. She spent at least half an hour creating this one.
Later in the day she worked on eating one of her stocking stuffers and
tried on her new Cindrella dress-up dress, which has been a HUGE huge, HUGE hit.
Monday, January 10, 2011
RUS's sign language vocabulary
RUS is almost 15 months and here is what he regularly signs (not all of these would be comprehensible to other people but he does have signs he uses for all these words that J and I can understand):
Basics
Food Words
People/Animals/Things
Actions
Basics
- more
- please
- thank you
Food Words
- eat/food
- milk
- apple
- orange
- spaghetti
- banana
- water
- bread
- hot
- all done
- cheese
People/Animals/Things
- Mommy
- Daddy
- train
- baby
- cat
- dog (kinda)
- horse/cow (kinda sorta)
- music
- bird
Actions
- wash hands
- brush teeth
- hello/bye bye
- blow kisses (complete with MWAH sound)
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
R's Drawing of the Grinch
I may have mentioned on here before R's fascination-slash-obsession with The Grinch Who Stole Christmas--not the book this time, but the movie starring Jim Carrey. She wanted Grinch stories almost 24-7, and asked us to draw pictures of the Grinch often. Here's a drawing she made of the Grinch that she brought home from school one afternoon sometime before Christmas.
The Great Wall of China
We got Mulan through our Blockbuster.com subscription the week before Christmas and let R watch it with us. J had already seen it but I never had, and R and I really enjoyed experiencing it for the first time. It's a really good movie and I couldn't believe this was the first time I was seeing it.
Anyway, after watching it R was playing with blocks in the morning before going to school and decided she wanted to build the Great Wall of China. What do you think???
Anyway, after watching it R was playing with blocks in the morning before going to school and decided she wanted to build the Great Wall of China. What do you think???
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