Lily started drawing portraits of me and mom and taping them up all over the house. Luke caught on and I just thought this self portrait was priceless. Totally captures his inner Lukiness.
Post 292: Don’t Want To Go
Shirley Hughes is an author we like a lot around here. She also one that we did not know about for a long time. She is British and some of her work is out of print, never the less, her drawings and stories capture childhood development in a visceral way and our kids love them.
One of her books entitled Don’t want to go coincidentally about a young girl named Lily who does not want to spend the day being cared for by a neighbor when her mom has the flu and her dad has to go to work.
Ultimately Lily has a great time and when her dad picks her up from the neighbors, she intones “Don’t want to go”
This episode is one that has been played out over and over in many households, and we had what I hope will be a winning moment in preparing Lily for preschool in the fall.
I played my guitar for the kids at Luke’s preschool last year. To my great joy and satisfaction I am now playing there again as a way to get Lily used to the environment and keep a connection for her upcoming attendance. The first day she was not at all interested and said over and over “me no like that!”
But low and behold after 20 minutes of singing and Lily finally getting up and joining in the dancing of her own accord, what do I hear, but “me no want to leave”
That translates a week later to her leading the charge, basically running into the school for our next “concert” she even had a request, one of Luke’s favorite songs:
Go figure.
Post 291: Mini Pier
We went to the Santa Monica pier and the next day Luke built one out of plasticine.
That’s the ferris wheel at the end and middle is the bridge and the little things are all the people.
Post 290: Little House Grill
Luke has been working on this for awhile, he finally asked me for some help getting one of the screws in and I asked a few questions.
How did you get the screws in?
He screwed them directly into the 2×4, I imagined it was in partnership with a hammer, but he basically muscled the screw through the would, do you understand how difficult that is?
What is it?
It is a grilling device based on one that he heard about in “Little House in the Big Woods“. One of the Laura Ingalls Wilder books that we have read many times. When I told mom about it her only comment was, “I can’t wait to use it”
Post 289: Tree (Three)
Lily turned three. I could say a lot about how it feels like only yesterday…, but what I really think is that she is three today and she will be six tomorrow, why, because she told me she would be. Literally, she said “tomorrow I be six”
She wanted a blue kitty cat cake. We decided on ice cream and when it came time to frost it, she decided she didn’t want that (her words) and when we served her she didn’t want the graham cracker crust it was sitting on either, what did she want?
VANILLA ICE CREAM of course!
The level of her growth is beyond description.
Today at 10:30 am I asked her what she wanted to do and her reply was “Go pick up Lukie'” which was four hours away form happening, but it tells you where her mind is at.
She also went and picked some blueberries from a blueberry bush we have, she brought them to me and I thanked her and I told her that she should leave the reddish ones on the plant until they are blue. She immediately disappeared and when she came back there were only ripe ones in the bowl. I asked her where the other ones were add she told me she had put them back on the tree.
I have been out of the blog cycle for many months, Ill try to play catch up now.