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Computer: Set Blog to Auto-Post...The Old Lady's out at some fancy perfess'r-party tonight, so it has been just me and the spawnage all afternoon/eve'n. Hence, I barely have a fucking will-to-live, let alone an ounce of will-to-blog. So, instead, I'm just gonna post some doodles of Mr. Z's that I found tucked in his math book. • Email to a friend • Related • More Recent Articles |
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We recently travelled to Cairns, Australia where my mother lives, its hot and the humidity is a killer! The thought of not only having our little girl in the heat, was a little off putting but also the first hurdle was more of a worry – Travelling with a 6 month old overseas!
We obtained a passport for her last year, now have you ever had to hold a 3 month old baby still for the camera and making sure that she doesn't have any facial expression on her face at all – this is crazy, the lady behind the counter ended up photo shopping the photo to make it look normal and also something that would be excepted by the officials.
Now one good thing about travelling with her is that we can still take a 20kg luggage allowance for her and any excess of our's will go in her, now don't make the same mistake of thinking that she might be allowed an alcohol allowance – she isn't. ... read more >>
Pyper has been going to day care twice a week on a part time basis for just on 3 weeks now, and although this is great, I wonder sometimes how they treat her?
It's not as if they can tell you at the end of the day "Daddy that lady was mean to me ..." so I guess you have to just trust your judgement and hope that they really are being nice, and everything is being taken care of!! So I found myself thinking "hmm I'm not sure this place is for her, maybe she should just stay at home with me? Does she get anything out of it? Do I get anything out of it?"
Then it struck me that the one thing that I was resisting was the one thing that I wanted for her – being able to interact with other children. I felt a little selfish. Like, why would I pay all that money to then not trust the process. ... read more >>
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Putting the "Ow!" in Workout...Sorry I missed a day -- work has been wacky and I've just started a freelance gig with a ridiculously hasty deadline, so excuse me if I don't have an extra few minutes to tap out my latest fascinating musings about woodpeckers and poop. • Email to a friend • Related • More Recent Articles
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Sunday 6 April 2008Where the Wild Books Are What does every kid love?Because I am the TA's dad (and she is my TA), I want to say that she loves books. And the TA would no doubt agree she adores books. Lots of 'em. And preferably scattered everywhere. Books at bedtime. Waterproof books in the tub. Coloring books in the diaper bag. Board books underfoot in the kitchen. But who is kidding whom? The truth is that TA's one true love is not books, but stairs. Lots of stairs. Stairs to go up. Stairs to come down. Stairs to run toward with open arms. Stairs to stare at lovingly before ascending and descending infinitum. But because I'm the Dad, we started our day not in pursuit of stairs, but in pursuit of books. And when it comes to books, Barefoot Books, in Cambridge MA, is probably the coolest bookstore on the planet. Titles like Alligator Alphabet, Counting Cockatoos, Zoe and Her Zebra, and, of course, Bear's Busy Family are staples of the TA's expanding library. Although maybe exploding library would best explain the scene in her room. Let's just say the Dewey decimal system is nonstarter. Barefoot Books is street level (i.e., no stairs), but she was thrilled all the same.  The TA runs wild through the offerings of Barefoot Books.For whatever reason, she kept grabbing titles in Spanish and asking me to read them to her. What did I do? El punto en cuadros y arregla cosas! (Point at pictures and make things up!) In the end, we bought Yoga Pretzels for the TA to share with Mama, and some African Wildlife Finger Puppets for her to pass the time en route to our next stop.  The venerable Grolier Poetry Book Shop in Harvard Square is renowned both for being the oldest bookstore in America devoted exclusively to poetry and for its epic struggles to remain open. The public may be indifferent to poetry, but Grolier is a hidden jewel.Spacious as a phone booth, but boundless in her offerings, Grolier is worth the trip from anywhere on the planet. We discovered a copy of Rodney Jones' "The Kingdom of the Instant" and were on our way. Later, I read some poems to the TA, while she provided interpretation with assistance from Ms. Giraffe and Mr. Lion. The next stop was Harvard Yard. It's a short walk across the street, and it gave me an excuse to cut the TA loose for a romp.  Legend has it the Widener Library contains 53 miles of books.This might make Dad's book-loving heart go pitter-pat, but the TA had other plans.  With an immediate about face, the TA bolts for the Memorial Church There are few books in a church (actually, just one).But for the TA, it was all about the stairs. Twenty-five minutes of her go up and down unmercifully hard granite steps wore me out. I tossed her in the backpack, and we wandered towards the Barker Center.  Helen Vendler's office.It's not every day you can introduce your toddler to a living legend. Organic chemist. Mathematician. Keats scholar. The first woman offered an instructorship at Harvard. Introducing the TA to as many accomplished independent women as possible can only help. Unfortunately, she wasn't home. I wasn't sure what we were going to do if she was home. Maybe just wave and ask her to sign the TA's backpack copy of "The Runaway Bunny."  The next stop was Curious George Goes to Wordsworth.The monkey, of course, needs little introduction.  Of course, the TA simply ignored the booksand insisted instead on walking up and down the stairs for the next 20 minutes. (All the while, liberating random monkeys from their pails.) All in all, it was good trip, but I've been mulling over some possibilities for our next jaunt into the world.  Like maybe a lighthouse . . .  or maybe something further east . . . or maybe we'll just stay home with a video, whilethe TA breaks in her newest toy . . . .  Source: http://studiorumprolatorum.blogspot.com/2008/03/books-and-ladders.html -- To unsubscribe from this feed, click here To manage other subscriptions, click here ~ Powered by RssFwd, a service of Blue Sky Factory, Inc Friday 4 April 2008crabbydad - Birth of the Anti-Crab...
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