ay, there's the rub

that whole sleeping thing?  i totally jinxed myself.  and while tae is still spending the first, erm, several hours of the night in her bed, she's started waking up throughout the night, asking for smoothies.  mostly, this happens when she doesn't nap during the day, and thus gets hungry after not really eating a proper dinner.

eh.

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my printer/scanner stopped printing after i moved.  so then it was just a scanner.  now it doesn't scan any more either... which makes it... a nothing.

which means i cannot scan some of tae's recent cool artwork.

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the other morning tae asked me how to draw a heart.  i tried to show her how to draw a "V" and then two bumps on top.  but then she kept drawing this thing that was more rounded and blobby.  it turns out she was trying to draw a HUMAN heart as depicted on the latest book i have been pretending to read.

i drew her the outline of a human heart and she proceeded to color it blue and red, for the veins and arteries.  [i wish my scanner worked right now.]

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the other picture i wanted to scan was tae's picture of two rhinos.  one was alive.  the other "had bleed."  not even thinking, i bought tae a book about endangered animals.  when we were talking about why different animals were endangered, we started talking about water pollution, over farming, de-forestation, and poaching.  that was a fun conversation!

Comments

[nicki]

Little Bear still gets up in the middle of the night almost every night. Usually she just helps herself to water or a juice box... Tae is very creative to ask for a smoothie !

[sopheak]

hey delia, it was so nice seeing you and tae over the weekend. Tae is wise beyond her years. I think you do an amazing job with explaining things to her.

[Robin Reagler]

Tae is such a cool little kid!

[Sandra]

Happy Mother's Day.