we have been dropping off around the same time as another family at both schools (their son is in KG and their daughter in preschool). k said the other day: i am M's brother, E is my brother, and R is E's brother.
as i asked her to explain why, she said because i am older than M and so on...
not only has she included this wonderful family as part of our family, but she has generalized the relationship of brother to be about age rather than gender. interesting
k and r played superhero for a long time with the booty that auntie hot hot brought over. they bought on the masks and ran around rescuing animals. k also spent a good amount of time showing us somersaults and how fast she can run -- 200 miles per hour. r played games and enjoyed setting up fair games. k and i played a ball toss with soup containers and a hackysack ball.
our favorite present was a book about all of the places laura ingalls wilder has lived. we are on our fifth book and the kids love them. to show them the real places is very exciting. thank you aunty hot hot.
we also had our standard weekend activities: wii and pizza (friday), obstacle races at the tennis bubble (saturday), and swimming and library (sunday). we are a regular people. k also enjoyed making chocolate cookies with her papa. and r was able to dismantle mom's broken laptop.
parents folded lots of laundry, ate some dosa, finished off leftovers and mostly enjoyed each others company. oh dad and mom also had a meeting to discuss the proper location and quantity of dish towels for the dining room drawer.
and now it is almost monday. but we hope to be above zero this week.
K's assessment of the weather on friday: today it is minus infinity degrees. tomorrow it will be minus google degrees. and the next day it will be zero. once we teach her about absolute zero, she will be all set
k also wanted to know why we should not lie. and then she added her example. "mom an example is when i tell you that i wash my hands with soap but i dont." so i had a conversation about trust and family. she did not seem to think that those consequences were worth much. pretty funny.
we were listening to wait wait, don't tell me on mpr today. and r blurted out hu jintao before the question was over. i asked him how he knew that and he said that he had been listening to the news. i guess the grasshopper has.
how can this be the same child who refuses to change his clothes without help and can't get the spoon to this mouth without spilling half the rice on the table because he does not know where his spoon is in relationship to his mouth?
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enjoyed it all, but that last paragraph really got me! ha!
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