Archive for the ‘Family’ Category

C: “Mommy, a show I saw told me to follow my instincts. Well, my instincts are leading me to the computer.”
Me: “Nice try. Finish your dinner.”

D: “I am building the Titanic, but I need my brother to help me. Of course, it is a two person job.”

This video was taken two years ago (November 2009, age 5). C is talking about the pygmies and vampire bat in Pocket God. (Note his “I heart speech therapy” sticker)

Nearly a year later (August 2010). C reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Nearly a year later again (July 2011). C and D swimming in the pool. C is the one who says “it’s cold underwater”, so you can really measure the speech difference in him.

And in August 2011, C again reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

This is a story that C came up with. I typed it up as he dictated (he did a little editing afterward, in true author fashion).

A hen and ten eggs are on a spaceship. A missile coming out of nowhere hits them in the back of their spaceship.

The spaceship crashes on an empty planet that has a house. Ten more eggs were in the house. The hen moved the house to the eggs.

The hen pulled the house with a long chain, and put all the eggs in the house. Two more hens come and ten more eggs are being carried by one hen, with help by the other hen.

And they all lived perfect in the house together.

The planet had a waterfall. It had a river and they named the planet Earth.

That’s what happened.

The end.

Pictures from today. The festival wasn’t that interesting to the boys, but they loved tramping around in the park and playing on the playground. C was more cooperative for pictures than D was. C also took a few pictures, including some of me and a neat one of his brother looking through a book.

Photos from the park today. We climbed on a very huge fallen tree, tramped through the brush on one of the small islands in the canal, and played on the playground. We also had a great discussion on archaeology, dendrochronology, growth rings on trees, and looked over the old graveyard.