Scarlett, age 8
8 years ago
Friday, November 28, 2014
Monday, November 24, 2014
Sunday, November 23, 2014
what is missing
I'm so backed up on posts. I keep telling myself to write to 5-year-old Lucy, remind us all how she quoted her favorite part of The Taming of the Shrew conversationally at her birthday party, just before the pinata ("You're marrying me, not my clothes!").
What else is missing?
Oscar hasn't worn real clothes since we came back from Hawaii in the Spring. He spent the summer in 2-piece pajamas (long sleeves, long pants), then started in on costumes toward Fall: a fleece skeleton one-piece hoody ("Bonesy"), a triceratops purloined from Aunt Sarah ("T-rex"), a dragon, a frog, full weeks spent wearing a Spiderman suit with built-in muscles. He went to bed one night in mid-October crying pitifully for a non-existent monkey costume ("go store now") and woke up with the same thing on his mind; a morning trip to the thrift store uncovered his father's hidden talent for spotting monkey costumes (he found three!) and we all came home happy.
Last weekend he spotted green flannel Santa pajamas at another thrift store and chose them over the Spiderman car he wanted to buy. He almost hasn't taken them off since. There have been a couple forays back to T-rex, and there was one morning when we figured out after much crying that he wanted to dress "like a kid" which in this case meant a bright orange Oregon State sweatsuit that my parents had passed on from my childhood days. He did look like a kid.
We had what we called our first successful home-schooling experience when we pulled Lucy out of swimming lessons and just spent a lot of time together at the pool and she taught herself to swim.
Lucy has been prolific with her art, there are tissue paper sculptures and notes and drawings all over the house.
The summer weather was beautiful, we bookended the summer with vacations and the beach and got in several trips to Hood River with paddle boarding too.
Things are nice.
What else is missing?
Oscar hasn't worn real clothes since we came back from Hawaii in the Spring. He spent the summer in 2-piece pajamas (long sleeves, long pants), then started in on costumes toward Fall: a fleece skeleton one-piece hoody ("Bonesy"), a triceratops purloined from Aunt Sarah ("T-rex"), a dragon, a frog, full weeks spent wearing a Spiderman suit with built-in muscles. He went to bed one night in mid-October crying pitifully for a non-existent monkey costume ("go store now") and woke up with the same thing on his mind; a morning trip to the thrift store uncovered his father's hidden talent for spotting monkey costumes (he found three!) and we all came home happy.
Last weekend he spotted green flannel Santa pajamas at another thrift store and chose them over the Spiderman car he wanted to buy. He almost hasn't taken them off since. There have been a couple forays back to T-rex, and there was one morning when we figured out after much crying that he wanted to dress "like a kid" which in this case meant a bright orange Oregon State sweatsuit that my parents had passed on from my childhood days. He did look like a kid.
We had what we called our first successful home-schooling experience when we pulled Lucy out of swimming lessons and just spent a lot of time together at the pool and she taught herself to swim.
Lucy has been prolific with her art, there are tissue paper sculptures and notes and drawings all over the house.
The summer weather was beautiful, we bookended the summer with vacations and the beach and got in several trips to Hood River with paddle boarding too.
Things are nice.
Saturday, November 22, 2014
Friday, November 14, 2014
Saturday, November 1, 2014
halloween heard on the street
"My bag of candy is as heavy as a 1989 human!"
-Lucy, choosing a definitely-not-cliche simile to describe her Halloween haul
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