As Bud gets more and more adventerous, he is pulling himself up to stand in more and more places. One of his favorites is to use the knees of my pants, which forces me to walk backwards in order to facilitate his forward motion. He is also demanding more holding time and I have to put him in the stroller twice a day to give him naps now that our day is no longer defined by driving TheWife to work.
TheBubster has been enjoying school and playing in the park afterwards this week. She has also developed a rather full calendar which has ballet lessons and soccer. There is also a steady stram of playdates beginning as she makes and maintains relationships with more friends. Keeps us on our toes, fortunately there is technology to help with the schedule and as a bonus I’ve loaded up my phone with some books and am now reading “Alice in Wonderland” to her, a chapter a night.
It has been wonderful weather here the last couple days, and LittleBud will not let me hang out in the house all day long. Instead I am required to travel all over and do things outside with him. So one of the things in my travels today was this photo. See I really dig panoramic photos and have gotten an application that helps take them pretty easily on my phone, so I’m learning how to do this best.
This view is from the Longfellow Bridge which crosses the Charles River from Cambridge to Boston. The bridge is 364 smoots long.
Now that there is greater space in our schedule a new development has crept into our daily life. TheBubster has been seeing alot of her special friend from Peabody House. Both of them have moved on to separate schools but since we all live in the same neighborhood, it is hard to not run into each other. It started with a coordinated playdate on Thursday, then yesterday there was an unexpected encounter. While this was going on, DieAfrikaaner’s mother revealed that he was also signed up for Cambridge Youth Soccer. We coordinated our attendance so that these two little love bugs could be together. Yup, they are crazy for each other. There are hugs and hand holding and even tackling one another to the ground. There can even be some sadness when they are separated. Yesterday, as we were all heading home, TheBubster made it very clear that she would rather go to DieAkrikaaner’s home than to hers. When I told her that his family could not afford her dowry, his mother pointed out that in South Africa the dowry is paid in cows and they have been very unable to keep cows here in Cambridge. Elaborating on this point, that if we are to truly honor everyone’s hertiage in this manner, then the cows need to be moved from the Republic of South Africa to Australia, this logistical nightmare will also involve adherence to numerous international treaties regarding agriculture and with the fragiliy of the natural Australian biosphere will more than likely be vetoed by proper authorities at this point in time.
Fortunately, the kids did not need all of these explanations.
I’m writing this from my new phone but that’s not what this is about. Now that TheWife has passed her driving test, there is suddenly three extra hours in the day. Well, at least for the kids and I there are three extra hours. This has given me a couple of buckets of much needed patience, which in turn has brought much peace to our house. We are also figuring out how to get the kids to sleep in their own beds for at least a good percentage of the night. (Interestingly enough, this was the exact moment which Bud had to cry out to be brought to our bed. Meh, it happens.)
TheBubster is really enjoying school and is getting smarter on a daily basis. She’ll be doing rocket science next week, which is lucky cause she’ll be starting her career at NASA next month. We are still looking forward to LittleBud’s first steps but he is in no hurry, except to get to the popcorn bowl. Popcorn and being born with a full head of hair are the two traits I am certain were handed down from me.
It’s sort of late and we have schedules around here so I’m going to bed now. As TheBubster now says, “good bye Dah-ling, ta ta for now.”
And then he had his friend somewhere and they were playing hide and seek.
And then fell down the yellow dinosaur and the pink dinosaur got him up with his tail.
And then his friends came.
And then the blue and green dinosaurs are walking by them.
And then they just looked around see they are sleeping.
And then they push their friends when they’re sleepy.
And then the crazy one wasn’t sleepy anymore.
And then the blue and green dinosaurs play pat a cake and then the blue and green dinosaur have to rest for a minute.
And then the orange one first woke up!
And then it look on the green and blue dinosaurs with resting time.
And then they’re gonna fight.
Chapter 2. “The Life of the Dance of the Desert and the Night of the Time”
Once upon a time there were dinosaurs hunting for food all over the place and waiting for teir friends to come on to find some food.
One friend was waiting, and then his friends wouldn’t come anywhere.
And then they start to move and the blue dinosaur first calls for them.
“Roar”
It was a big roar, and then they started to come.
And then the green dinosaur started to come and the yellow dinosaur wanted to find some berries. The organge dinosaur said, “Wait there’s one more friend!”
And then he’s starting to come because he has a hurt leg and he has to hop on one leg. He has to fall asleep and then he’s dreaming about zebras in the desert with them.
And then they find some berries.
And then they look and look and the orange dinosaur found the blueberries and the other dinosaurs are so excited for it.
And the orange dinosaur says “Hang on for the blueberries. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on.”
And then they start to hug in the sunglasses of the storm.
And they squeeze each other. And they squeeze and squeeze and squeeze.
And then they flew off and then the storm was gone and the orange dinosaur was killed from falling down.
“Look at all the words.”
“I want the colors.”
“What’s that?” [the tornado]
“That’s fun!” [Dorothy's family is flying by]
“The colors!”
“Is it real?” “What do you think?” “Yeah. I think it is.”
“Where are they now? It’s three people.” [the great, dark forest]
“Are you scared of the lion, EJ?” [from dad] “No.”
“Was it snowing?”
“I think it’s great. I liked it so much.”
As Bud gets more and more adventerous, he is pulling himself up to stand in more and more places. One of his favorites is to use the knees of my pants, which forces me to walk backwards in order to facilitate his forward motion. He is also demanding more holding time and I have to put him in the stroller twice a day to give him naps now that our day is no longer defined by driving TheWife to work.
