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Aug. 26th, 2010 08:44 amMagical moments with my children:
-Aaron, Isaac and Jake are drawing SUCH COOL STUFF! Aaron made a comic strip today with a robot and a dog, and a big step by step set of illustrations of the anthropomorphized fire from Howl's Moving Castle; Isaac drew a diagram of a boy lighting fireworks, complete with the word "BOOM", as well as a bunch of monsters rendered according to his "How to Draw Monsters" book. Jake did more elaborate scribblings that come clear as he explains them to you in elaborate detail.
-We're reading SO MUCH: I'm reading the 3 oldest each entry (one per day) from LIFE's "100 People Who Changed the World" - so far we've done Abraham, Buddha and Confucius (it's organized by section and begins with religious and philosophical figures); Ananda, Aaron and I are reading The Island of the Blue Dolphins; Isaac and I The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; and Jake and I, Alice's Advenutures in Wonderland. That last really impresses me - it's slightly antiquated language and spare on the (albeit awesome) illustrations, the real Lewis Carroll version that is many many chapters long, and he is totally into it. Elise and I read something like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie or The Parable of the Lily every day.
-Food today really boggled my mind. That pound cake I mentioned being for breakfast in the previous entry, the one that had FIVE EGGS AND HALF A POUND OF BUTTER in it? They ate it for breakfast. The entire thing. Then the big old pot of lentil and kale stew, plus pan of peanut butter fudge? They took it down, for lunch. Minus the small bowl Grant had last night and the chunk of fudge I gave Bob, they took it all down. It's frightening, I tell you, although also good to see them tearing into such nutritious stuff (that soup was not something you'd expect kids to beg for more of). I ended up going and buying 3 boxes of family size macaraoni and cheese tonight, and mixing a bunch of (6 boneless tenderloins) chicken, (3 heads of) broccoli and (half a bag, frozen) peas into it. There are definitely not leftovers. We don't eat mac n cheese much as Isaac really shouldn't have it.
It was a pretty good day around here overall. I took Elise and went and paid on the electric bill and deposited Usborne checks in the bank. Later, I gave my sister in law (who was full of wild stories about car accidents, the methadone clinic and supposedly false accusations by police officers) a ride to work, and grabbed the mac n cheese from Publix.
There was a brief interlude where I groaned and showed the kids the maps and charts at http://nhc.noaa.gov, which is a site all South Floridians are intimately familiar with, and then called my sister to warn her to be on the lookout (neither of us has cable or gets the paper so we could potentially get caught by surprise one morning when everyone in the neighborhood is putting their shutters up, and not get to the stores until all the supplies are gone).
Tomorrow I'm taking Aaron up to Miami Children's bright and early to get his cast off (FINALLY!!! YES!!!). I also have to go to BJ's to pay them for the freaking aforementioned check that bounced. Then to the dance studio to pay on his remaining JUMP fees.
(posted late: fell asleep before this was finished)
-Aaron, Isaac and Jake are drawing SUCH COOL STUFF! Aaron made a comic strip today with a robot and a dog, and a big step by step set of illustrations of the anthropomorphized fire from Howl's Moving Castle; Isaac drew a diagram of a boy lighting fireworks, complete with the word "BOOM", as well as a bunch of monsters rendered according to his "How to Draw Monsters" book. Jake did more elaborate scribblings that come clear as he explains them to you in elaborate detail.
-We're reading SO MUCH: I'm reading the 3 oldest each entry (one per day) from LIFE's "100 People Who Changed the World" - so far we've done Abraham, Buddha and Confucius (it's organized by section and begins with religious and philosophical figures); Ananda, Aaron and I are reading The Island of the Blue Dolphins; Isaac and I The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; and Jake and I, Alice's Advenutures in Wonderland. That last really impresses me - it's slightly antiquated language and spare on the (albeit awesome) illustrations, the real Lewis Carroll version that is many many chapters long, and he is totally into it. Elise and I read something like If You Give a Mouse a Cookie or The Parable of the Lily every day.
-Food today really boggled my mind. That pound cake I mentioned being for breakfast in the previous entry, the one that had FIVE EGGS AND HALF A POUND OF BUTTER in it? They ate it for breakfast. The entire thing. Then the big old pot of lentil and kale stew, plus pan of peanut butter fudge? They took it down, for lunch. Minus the small bowl Grant had last night and the chunk of fudge I gave Bob, they took it all down. It's frightening, I tell you, although also good to see them tearing into such nutritious stuff (that soup was not something you'd expect kids to beg for more of). I ended up going and buying 3 boxes of family size macaraoni and cheese tonight, and mixing a bunch of (6 boneless tenderloins) chicken, (3 heads of) broccoli and (half a bag, frozen) peas into it. There are definitely not leftovers. We don't eat mac n cheese much as Isaac really shouldn't have it.
It was a pretty good day around here overall. I took Elise and went and paid on the electric bill and deposited Usborne checks in the bank. Later, I gave my sister in law (who was full of wild stories about car accidents, the methadone clinic and supposedly false accusations by police officers) a ride to work, and grabbed the mac n cheese from Publix.
There was a brief interlude where I groaned and showed the kids the maps and charts at http://nhc.noaa.gov, which is a site all South Floridians are intimately familiar with, and then called my sister to warn her to be on the lookout (neither of us has cable or gets the paper so we could potentially get caught by surprise one morning when everyone in the neighborhood is putting their shutters up, and not get to the stores until all the supplies are gone).
Tomorrow I'm taking Aaron up to Miami Children's bright and early to get his cast off (FINALLY!!! YES!!!). I also have to go to BJ's to pay them for the freaking aforementioned check that bounced. Then to the dance studio to pay on his remaining JUMP fees.
(posted late: fell asleep before this was finished)