Category Archives: the girl
Yes read the book!
Watching Zoe learn to read has been one of those crazy things. In a way, it’s very reminiscent of when she was first learning to talk. Before starting kindergarten, she had one or two words she recognized (“no”, “on”, and “zoo”), but then she started coming home with small simple books, and she’d work hard …
6 and 2
I’m a bit late here … the girls turned 6 and 2 in the middle of October. Zoe’s now 6, and full in to being a Kindergartner. It’s astounding how much she’s learning now, though she’s exhausted by the end of most days. She brings home books from school and slowly works through them, working …
quiet
I was cleaning up after lunch and Hazel was happily and quietly entertaining herself. A little too quietly, come to think of it. I stepped around the corner to find this.
teaching life lessons in Pre-K: You’re doing it wrong
It’s Thursday evening at the dinner table, I ask Zoe about her day. Me: What did you do at school today, Zoe? Zoe: Well, our teacher brought us lemons. But we didn’t make lemonade.
So how is Hazel?
Ah the poor, neglected second child. You know how they joke that a first child has lots of photos and the second, not so much? It’s grounded in just a bit of truth here. And I’m pretty clearly not too good at keeping this place updated as much as I used to either. Heck, I …
Haiku
Sweet, sick girl of mine, Who sleeps only in my lap, How, then, do I sleep?
the birds and the bees and the doctors
We got the question at dinner tonight. You know the one. We were talking about women having babies and then Zoe asks the obvious next question, “how do you get a baby?” I wanted to leave it at a woman gets pregnant, Chris tried to make a joke, but Zoe was having none of it, …
cool vs pretty
Spring has come early this year. In fact, it feels like winter hardly had a chance. So we had our first dinner outside. Nothing fancy: chicken, cauliflower, frozen blueberries that left our fingers purple-stained. In between handfuls of blueberries, Zoe pipes up: “P [a boy at daycare] told me today about the difference between boy …
of science and cats
This morning, Zoe comes to us and tells us she learned some new things about our cats, that they don’t like orange things and they don’t like balloons. When we asked how she learned this, she said she’d taken her orange balloon and held it in front of the cat’s face, and the cat walked …
1-2-3-4-5
Zoe turned 5 today. Five!!! Five. Wow. The day didn’t start too well, I was sitting with Hazel on my bed, and turned away, and down she went. Lesson for the day: if you find yourself saying to your baby, “Why don’t we put you on the floor so I’m not so nervous with you …
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