for 3 days now, we've been enjoying a MI heat wave
and, we're living it up large. eating cream popsicles. swimming in the kid pool. using sidewalk chalk. dancing around the crazy daisy (sprinkler). biking over to the downtown fountains and playing in them. eating dessert on our front porch. having sleepovers in the bedrooms that have air conditioners. and, my favorite, a glass of wine the minute jon steps in the door (as opposed to when we sit down for supper 5 minutes later...believe me, those 5 minutes make a huge difference!)
happy summer.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
pippi...she still has the appeal
we're reading pippi longstocking right now and claire and david laugh out loud when we read it.
jon remembers watching the tv show. i remember reading it and seeing film versions.
claire tried to sleep like pippi does last night (with her feet on her pillow and her head under the covers). david loves hearing about the monkey. jacob said "pippi egg on head" when we ate eggs on sunday morning.
and, our neighbor caroline whose father is swedish, just brought over some swedish cookies that pippi made in the book (serendipitously she made them for a school assignment).
yup. pippi, like all the others, has joined our family
jon remembers watching the tv show. i remember reading it and seeing film versions.
claire tried to sleep like pippi does last night (with her feet on her pillow and her head under the covers). david loves hearing about the monkey. jacob said "pippi egg on head" when we ate eggs on sunday morning.
and, our neighbor caroline whose father is swedish, just brought over some swedish cookies that pippi made in the book (serendipitously she made them for a school assignment).
yup. pippi, like all the others, has joined our family
david did it!
the smile across his face could have lit up the world.
he was so proud of himself.
he did it.
he learned how to ride a two-wheeler last week and hasn't stopped biking since.
so fun to see him happy, confident, giddy with joy.
he was so proud of himself.
he did it.
he learned how to ride a two-wheeler last week and hasn't stopped biking since.
so fun to see him happy, confident, giddy with joy.
claire the librarian
claire and her friend angela have turned claire's bedroom into a library.
there's mountains of books piled up in her room, all in carefully planned out orders and quantities. there's a check out area. there's a reading area.
they act out the librarians and get david and jacob in trouble if they talk too loud (even though i've worked so hard to get them past the stereotype of librarians telling people to be quiet!).
after telling her that i think librarians are some of the most powerful people in the world because they get to chose which stories a community/city gets to read, claire decided that she wouldn't have any bob the builder stories or barbie stories but that she'd have lots of bearstein bears, caillou and pippi longstocking.
as i try to make sense of my theoretical framework for my dissertation, that of literacy sponsorship - the people, institutions, commercial/cultural forces that influence individual's literacy development and acquisition, i can't help but wish that i could just study my own kids.
there's mountains of books piled up in her room, all in carefully planned out orders and quantities. there's a check out area. there's a reading area.
they act out the librarians and get david and jacob in trouble if they talk too loud (even though i've worked so hard to get them past the stereotype of librarians telling people to be quiet!).
after telling her that i think librarians are some of the most powerful people in the world because they get to chose which stories a community/city gets to read, claire decided that she wouldn't have any bob the builder stories or barbie stories but that she'd have lots of bearstein bears, caillou and pippi longstocking.
as i try to make sense of my theoretical framework for my dissertation, that of literacy sponsorship - the people, institutions, commercial/cultural forces that influence individual's literacy development and acquisition, i can't help but wish that i could just study my own kids.
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