Posted in Milestones, Journal on Nov 10th, 2006 2 Comments »
Paddy and Aidan have come down with some sort of virus. When they don’t sleep, I don’t sleep…. and Paddy seems to need a permanent motherly presence around him; he leaps out of bed the moment he senses my absence. So between that, and my Novel in a Month goals, I haven’t […]
Posted in Literacy and Language, Early Childhood, Milestones on Sep 8th, 2006 No Comments »
It is interesting to watch Aidan and Paddy in the early stages of literacy.
Paddy is extremely quick and facile. After several years with Aidan, who attains milestones with difficulty and perseverance and often by indirect “compensation” routes, Paddy reminds me all over how easily things normally “click” with the preschool child.
Paddy loves to […]
Posted in Milestones, Journal on Sep 6th, 2006 No Comments »
Aidan sitting on a rocking horse: “Paddy, when you grow up you will be a Brewer. We will play T-ball next summer.”
Paddy: “When I grow up I’m going to be a skeleton. With a SWORD. ” Runs off and comes back. “When I grow up I’m […]
Posted in Milestones, Big Picture, Journal, Living and learning on Sep 4th, 2006 2 Comments »
Paddy, who is going to be four this December, is really going through a development in his imagination. He comes up to me, “Mama, I’m a kitty. You’re the mama kitty. Miaow!” Being a kitty seems to be a recurrent activity, rounding out his traditional “fighting” games where he takes […]
Posted in Milestones, special needs on Jun 29th, 2006 2 Comments »
Aidan has a gift for challenging himself, in his good time.
Last fall our old vacuum cleaner died and we got a new one. Aidan was terrified of it. At first, he cried whenever I brought it out of the closet. All this winter, whenever it came out, he would run into […]
Posted in Milestones, special needs, Journal on Jun 23rd, 2006 No Comments »
That’s how hot it’s supposed to get in town during this weekend. Help! So glad it’s about 20 degrees cooller up at this altitude.
In the car today on the way back from the homeschool group meeting, Clare told me about High Noon which they watched earlier in the week. She and […]
Posted in Milestones, Nature on Jun 17th, 2006 1 Comment »
Liam brought me over to the granite ridge near our house to show me the carpenter ant hive he had discovered last year before he went off to college. We walked along a trail dotted with wildflowers, jumped over a small creek and were at last near a fallen, decaying, massive trunk […]
Posted in Milestones, Journal on Jun 3rd, 2006 1 Comment »
I wonder why I’ve been sleeping so much recently? I should start timing, to see exactly how much sleep I am getting. Since Aidan and Paddy have been sleeping through the night recently and I’ve stopped having anxiety attacks at 3 am (I don’t know what that was about but it lasted for a couple […]
Posted in Milestones, special needs on Jun 2nd, 2006 2 Comments »
Aidan is up early today and I can hear him chatting to his two older brothers who are sleeping up in the loft. “I can’t believe it…!” his voice carries over to the bedroom where I’m typing, but then drops into a lower tone. He’s probably telling them to do their chores […]
Posted in Milestones, Big Picture, Books on May 28th, 2006 2 Comments »
Last Friday I finished reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to Brendan. It was nice how it tied into our epic theme of the last three years. It was a spectacularly organized and vividly realized poem and the ending was a revelation to me. Before that I read him Thorstein […]
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