piseco (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} piseco) wrote,@ 2006-09-16 20:15:00 |
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Penultimate
A quiet moment, while the boys are playing HeroScape, to jot some of the cool things from the past few days.
One of my favorite sites to check is Board Games With Scott, a weekly video blog covering all different types of board games. Scott usually updates on Fridays, so tonight I was checking to see if he'd updated yesterday. He hadn't, so I spent a little time browsing in his archives, and realized that in his very early days, he'd done a bit on HeroScape:
C has started referring to the next-to-last page in a book as "page 9," the next-to-last figure out of the box as "number 9" and so on - probably because so many counting books, games etc. aimed at kids end at 10. Logically, the one before the last one would be 9. Shall I introduce him to the word "penultimate" before or after the social worker comes?
Thursday went well. The actual Red Tape part of the day went very painlessly and we were able to explore a nearby science museum, shop at the mall (which has a newly opened board game store) and have a good Italian dinner before heading home.
Friday, C and I attended a local opera performance geared towards kids, where the singers performed The Toy Shop. It was good, with enough drama to be captivating but not scary. C had a hard time understanding all the words as they were sung, so I spent most of the performance whispering in his ear to help him follow the plot. But he said he enjoyed it, especially the part where the dolls hid in the closet to fool the evil magician.
He also enjoyed the parking lot drama which followed - some fellow homeschoolers had a flat tire, so we stayed with them (a mother and two boys, 5 and 7), waiting for AAA and finally watching the tire get changed. C really was excited, and told them the long story of our flat tire, last summer...
Last night we finished reading Charlotte's Web and so our little boy has been mulling over the death of Charlotte. "Did Wilbur KNOW she was dead? How did he know she was dead? How did she know she was going to die? Poor Charlotte."
Today we hit a few garage sales, did some errands, cleaned a bit (though not nearly enough) and solved some tricky hexagon problems forjust_the_ash. Not a bad few days.
A quiet moment, while the boys are playing HeroScape, to jot some of the cool things from the past few days.
One of my favorite sites to check is Board Games With Scott, a weekly video blog covering all different types of board games. Scott usually updates on Fridays, so tonight I was checking to see if he'd updated yesterday. He hadn't, so I spent a little time browsing in his archives, and realized that in his very early days, he'd done a bit on HeroScape:
C has started referring to the next-to-last page in a book as "page 9," the next-to-last figure out of the box as "number 9" and so on - probably because so many counting books, games etc. aimed at kids end at 10. Logically, the one before the last one would be 9. Shall I introduce him to the word "penultimate" before or after the social worker comes?
Thursday went well. The actual Red Tape part of the day went very painlessly and we were able to explore a nearby science museum, shop at the mall (which has a newly opened board game store) and have a good Italian dinner before heading home.
Friday, C and I attended a local opera performance geared towards kids, where the singers performed The Toy Shop. It was good, with enough drama to be captivating but not scary. C had a hard time understanding all the words as they were sung, so I spent most of the performance whispering in his ear to help him follow the plot. But he said he enjoyed it, especially the part where the dolls hid in the closet to fool the evil magician.
He also enjoyed the parking lot drama which followed - some fellow homeschoolers had a flat tire, so we stayed with them (a mother and two boys, 5 and 7), waiting for AAA and finally watching the tire get changed. C really was excited, and told them the long story of our flat tire, last summer...
Last night we finished reading Charlotte's Web and so our little boy has been mulling over the death of Charlotte. "Did Wilbur KNOW she was dead? How did he know she was dead? How did she know she was going to die? Poor Charlotte."
Today we hit a few garage sales, did some errands, cleaned a bit (though not nearly enough) and solved some tricky hexagon problems for
just_the_ash. Not a bad few days.
