The kids were watching a cartoon in our bed this morning while I tried to exercise. They all stopped though and had to eat off the bed to investigate when I told them there was an ant walking along the woodwork. They also had to have me hold them for half of my workout. It adds weight but isn’t super effective.
Last night we took the children to the reading and talk about Lely and Alec’s book Hard Art on photographs of the DC punk scene in 1979. Charlie listen quietly and at the end said “What those guys were saying was really interesting. “
I was listening to an interview of the musician Dominique Pinto and they asked her if she felt more at home in Brazil or in France. She answers that she feels most at home in herself rather than a specific place and since she travels so much as a musician this serves her well. I hope the children have this feeling of being most at home in themselves. It will allow them to feel
Comfortable and confident and go out and explore. I think I was too focused growing up on home as a specific place and therefor not as at ease as I could be. I would have traveled and been so comfortable had I focused on making myself a comfortable “home”.
Raising kids is a project you are doing with them. You aren’t the one doing the raising, rather it is a collaboration project with both the parents and child working together to foster the development and growth of the child as a member of society and the parent as as a parent.
Teddy has has two consistent requests over the past few months: a trip to London to ride a double decker bus (not one here. One in London) and a small black puppy that he will call Charlie. I’d like to fulfill these thoughtful requests.
MJ calls the children’s crying for me after thy have been put to bed a request for an encore.
Scottie and Nell’s pronunciation key.
strawberry is strawr baby
Tinkerbell is t’nka bale
Cinderella is sin de lel laa
Bathing suit is bathing soup
Teddy “I see the mailman!
ALB “that looks like a mailman but e is the security guard from Dumbarton Oaks”
Teddy “Where is his sword?”
ALB “He doesn’t have a sword. Swords were really only used here a long time ago?”
Teddy “Did security guards from a long time ago have swords? Did they fight bad guys with swords a long time ago?”