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Post 314: Going On a Bear Hunt

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There is a very popular children’s book entitled “We’re Going On  bear Hunt” which depicts a family circumnavigating many natural obstacles in search of a bear. They fjord a river, hike the tall grass, plod through the snow and indeed find a bear, in his cave to which they respond by going back over every event in reverse order as quickly as possible only to lock themselves into their home and jump in bed promising to never go on a bear hunt again!

Now that Lily is in school three days a week and now that my mother lives within a mile of my house, on route to Luke’s school, I have days where I (without exaggerating) travel the same exact route five or six times.

Home to Luke’s school, back home to have breakfast and wait for Lily’s school to start, then off to Lily’s school, then back home to something, then off to see my mom, then back home, then off to pick up Lily from school, then over to pick up Luke from school and back home.

There ARE times I feel like locking myself in my house, getting into my bed and saying I will never take anyone to there respective places of learning or living AGAIN!

But I don’t, because I love them all.

Post 312: Minions

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img_5434Somewhere somehow we wound up with one of these Minion characters in our house. I(I am not even sure if that is the right thing to call them, but that is what we call them around here). The kids have never seen the movie, just a glimpse of products at Target or the occasional billboard.

Over time two more minions showed up and to be honest I don’t really know how or where those came from.

Today Lily was playing with them and I saw a fourth Minion. Now I am sure that there were only three of these guys previously, so it is quite perplexing where all these minions are coming from?

So, I did the obvious, I asked Lily,

“Where did that Minion come from Lily?” (pointing at the fourth one)

She said: “Oh that is baby minion, you see this one is Mommy Minion and this one is Daddy Minion, so now there is also baby minion.

 

Post 311: Chess

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Luke came home from school one day and said:

“I learned how to play chess today”

Now, there are many things that Luke says about fully comprehending a new concept that I am familiar with, lie “I know how to count how many atoms there are in my hand”, so I figured he had started learning the relatively complicated rules of chess.

The next day I bought a chess board and brought it home, after school we played chess. He almost beat me.

HE KNOWS HOW TO PLAY CHESS after two days of learning?

Sure, I chalk it up to the amazing elasticity of the young mind, but c’mon, chess? I mean I think that is pretty cool.

Post 310: Hot Water Bottle

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The other night Luke asked if he could have the hot water bottle. I explained that mom was using it for a very sore neck. He was not convinced that she needed it more than him, but when I suggested I would bring it in to him after she was done, he acquiesced.

Cut to late in the evening when I brought a cold water bottle in and tossed it up onto his bunk so that when he woke up it would be there.

Cut to 3am when Luke starts crying in bed. I go in and he says his blanket fell on the floor, I pick up the blanket and he says that the hot water bottle is in his bead and he does not understand how it got there and it is cold. I explained how it got there and he asks to fill it up again.

I dutifully filled the hot water bottle at 3am.

The next night as Mom and Dad are getting ready for bed, long past Luke’s bed time he comes sauntering in and says to mom:

“Is it OK if I use the hot water bottle for my very sore back, or do you need it tonight?” In the calmest, most pleasant manner you can imagine.

Mom fills the hot water bottle.

Post 308: Candy

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Lily and Luke are really starting to have there own secret world. On the days I pick them both up from school (Lily now goes three days a week), there is a wonderful discourse in the back seat mostly Luke asking Lily questions about her day, because Luke went to the same preschool. It is a delightful conversation to overhear.

We have a candy bowl up in a cabinet, it contains candy from last Halloween as well as odds and ends picked up from time to time, some gum, a candy cane, a few chocolate kisses, etc.

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A few weeks ago I found this hiding spot in the garage filled with candy wrappers. All stuff from our “bowl”. I decided to throw away everything else that was in the bowl to deter further unobserved candy parties, but about two weeks later I found another assortment of wrappers in the same place.

So Lily and Luke must have a super secret sub-hiding place somewhere yet to be discovered. Kind of the like the squirrels that have multiple hiding spots for there nuts in case they forget one or incase it gets raided.

These are some smart kids.