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Thursday, May 17, 2012
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
May Vacation
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Quote of the Day
"I was brave enough to touch the shark!"
Apparently Nicholas and Alice went to the aquarium today. The above is the report I got, directly from Nicholas.
More from Sarah when they return tomorrow.
Apparently Nicholas and Alice went to the aquarium today. The above is the report I got, directly from Nicholas.
More from Sarah when they return tomorrow.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Put Me in, Coach!
Man, does this kid like baseball. I barely even had to push it!
A few weeks ago, rummaging through the closet, I found his tee and bat safely stashed for the winter and told him we could play now that the weather is nice. And it's his new favorite activity. We've played each weekend day it was sunny for about an hour each time. He loves hitting, he loves chasing the ball, he even enjoys taking turns.
Most impressive to me is how much he's improved each time. When we first bought it for him last year he was holding the bat upside down, and we had to do a little work on the proper way to hold a bat the first time we took the tee out this year. Now he's got it down pat:
And as I said above, he enjoys taking turns, in no small part because he gets to help enforce the rules that we established the first time (mostly at his impetus, I must say). So here's a photo of him taking joy in putting the ball back up on the tee:
And yes, he insisted on wearing sunglasses because Daddy was wearing sunglasses. Mine don't have Lightning McQueen on the side, unfortunately. Oh well. Finally, some video which opens with Nicholas doing his impression of his father doing an impression of his father (etc.) being dopey and pretending to hit the ball out of sight when, in fact, he missed:
A few weeks ago, rummaging through the closet, I found his tee and bat safely stashed for the winter and told him we could play now that the weather is nice. And it's his new favorite activity. We've played each weekend day it was sunny for about an hour each time. He loves hitting, he loves chasing the ball, he even enjoys taking turns.
Most impressive to me is how much he's improved each time. When we first bought it for him last year he was holding the bat upside down, and we had to do a little work on the proper way to hold a bat the first time we took the tee out this year. Now he's got it down pat:
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And as I said above, he enjoys taking turns, in no small part because he gets to help enforce the rules that we established the first time (mostly at his impetus, I must say). So here's a photo of him taking joy in putting the ball back up on the tee:
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| From 2012 May |
And yes, he insisted on wearing sunglasses because Daddy was wearing sunglasses. Mine don't have Lightning McQueen on the side, unfortunately. Oh well. Finally, some video which opens with Nicholas doing his impression of his father doing an impression of his father (etc.) being dopey and pretending to hit the ball out of sight when, in fact, he missed:
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| From 2012 May |
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Fit for Command at Bastogne
For some reason, Nicholas has a new catchphrase:
"Aw, nuts!"
He's used it repeatedly in the past week, and always with pitch-perfect timing. Wind knock the ball off the tee? "Aw, nuts!" Find out you can't play anymore because it's bedtime? "Aw, nuts!"
The funniest part for me (because I watched too many World War II movies when I was a kid) is that I immediately thought of the Battle of the Bulge. Stick with me here if you don't know the reference. During the battle, the Germans had an American division surrounded in the town of Bastogne. The Germans demanded that the American commander, General McAuliffe, surrender. His response?
"Aw, nuts!"
"Aw, nuts!"
He's used it repeatedly in the past week, and always with pitch-perfect timing. Wind knock the ball off the tee? "Aw, nuts!" Find out you can't play anymore because it's bedtime? "Aw, nuts!"
The funniest part for me (because I watched too many World War II movies when I was a kid) is that I immediately thought of the Battle of the Bulge. Stick with me here if you don't know the reference. During the battle, the Germans had an American division surrounded in the town of Bastogne. The Germans demanded that the American commander, General McAuliffe, surrender. His response?
"Aw, nuts!"
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
A Day at School
Nicholas has reached the age where he is old enough to report lots of details from his day at school, but not yet old enough to provide all the relevant pieces or explain thoroughly. Here are a few pieces of our conversation in the car on the way home today:
They went for a walk today to the library (I presume the one on campus, which because we have such a big education program has a whole section of children's books). It was a long walk and it was fun and they had to hold a rope and he held a yellow circle and they couldn't let go of the rope until a teacher called their names. But they couldn't go into the library because you have to call first, so they walked back. Ooops, apparently there is a rule about groups of young children calling ahead and the teachers didn't realize that it. Nicholas was not dissapointed, but rather excited about the walk itself. Although he reported about the not calling part, he didn't seem to realize that the plan had been to actually go into the library and it was thwarted.
He had to have 4 friends in a purple car today at school. He named who the 4 were and kept talking about how it had to be 4 and it was a purple car, but I couldn't figure out what this car actually was or what it was a part of.
One of the kids at school said he wasn't Nicholas' friend. He is friends with 3 of the other boys and they all play together. Nicholas felt sad when this kid said he wasn't his friend, but he didn't cry. One of the teachers told the other kid that wasn't a nice thing to say. This kid apparently was having a very bad day because he was also hitting placemats off the table.
Nicholas was the weather reporter today. They instituted a job chart at school a couple weeks ago and there are some awesome jobs. In addition to weather reporter there is calendar helper, line leader, caboose (end of the line), gardener, rest helper, and snack helper. And those are just the ones we've learned about so far as Nicholas was cycled through. It is exciting to find out what new job he had each day.
They went for a walk today to the library (I presume the one on campus, which because we have such a big education program has a whole section of children's books). It was a long walk and it was fun and they had to hold a rope and he held a yellow circle and they couldn't let go of the rope until a teacher called their names. But they couldn't go into the library because you have to call first, so they walked back. Ooops, apparently there is a rule about groups of young children calling ahead and the teachers didn't realize that it. Nicholas was not dissapointed, but rather excited about the walk itself. Although he reported about the not calling part, he didn't seem to realize that the plan had been to actually go into the library and it was thwarted.
He had to have 4 friends in a purple car today at school. He named who the 4 were and kept talking about how it had to be 4 and it was a purple car, but I couldn't figure out what this car actually was or what it was a part of.
One of the kids at school said he wasn't Nicholas' friend. He is friends with 3 of the other boys and they all play together. Nicholas felt sad when this kid said he wasn't his friend, but he didn't cry. One of the teachers told the other kid that wasn't a nice thing to say. This kid apparently was having a very bad day because he was also hitting placemats off the table.
Nicholas was the weather reporter today. They instituted a job chart at school a couple weeks ago and there are some awesome jobs. In addition to weather reporter there is calendar helper, line leader, caboose (end of the line), gardener, rest helper, and snack helper. And those are just the ones we've learned about so far as Nicholas was cycled through. It is exciting to find out what new job he had each day.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
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