Zoe and I tried to make microwave smores.. although she did eat most
of it.. she said at the end that she didn't want it anymore because
"it tasted like gramma hair" (I had taken a bite right before that..
and I agree whole heartedly)
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Zoe's self portait done in 1rst grade
Monday, September 24, 2012
picking up kids
I pulled into the drive way to pick up Finn from Andrea's, and wasn't
sure they were home.. I asked Zoë to pop out and see if they were
still at the playground, or at home.. In the time it took Andrea to
open the door to let Zoë in, and for me to get out the car and get to
their door, Zoë had joined Evie, Finn, and Lauren in "naked swimming
in Evie's bed"... and yes, Zoë was naked too... So fun to see the joy
in those little kids.. ;)
I spent another 10 minutes trying to get them out the door.. in the
end.. Finn was put in the car stark naked and Zoë finally got too shy
and put her clothes on and headed to the car.
sure they were home.. I asked Zoë to pop out and see if they were
still at the playground, or at home.. In the time it took Andrea to
open the door to let Zoë in, and for me to get out the car and get to
their door, Zoë had joined Evie, Finn, and Lauren in "naked swimming
in Evie's bed"... and yes, Zoë was naked too... So fun to see the joy
in those little kids.. ;)
I spent another 10 minutes trying to get them out the door.. in the
end.. Finn was put in the car stark naked and Zoë finally got too shy
and put her clothes on and headed to the car.
Monday, September 17, 2012
ahh.. fall cold season is here
Zoe has had a fever since wee hours of Saturday.. sore throat.. threw
up twice on Saturday... once of course as we were debating whether or
not she should go to soccer (which she didn't want to)...she threw up
right in my hand.. sort of answered my dilema
.. and the newest fun is a full torso of rash
that she woke up this morning with... My sister said it sounded like
Strep.. Bruce took her in to the Dr this morning... they did the strep
culture, but said it was most likely a virus.
She's on benadryl now,.. taking some quiet time in her room.
Finn is fine..
I'm hoping it will not be a long week.
if you are looking for good TV, the whole family will enjoy "Avatar:
The last airbender" cartoon on netflicks.. we are all addicted.. great
show!
up twice on Saturday... once of course as we were debating whether or
not she should go to soccer (which she didn't want to)...she threw up
right in my hand.. sort of answered my dilema
.. and the newest fun is a full torso of rash
that she woke up this morning with... My sister said it sounded like
Strep.. Bruce took her in to the Dr this morning... they did the strep
culture, but said it was most likely a virus.
She's on benadryl now,.. taking some quiet time in her room.
Finn is fine..
I'm hoping it will not be a long week.
if you are looking for good TV, the whole family will enjoy "Avatar:
The last airbender" cartoon on netflicks.. we are all addicted.. great
show!
Friday, September 14, 2012
What color is the moon?
Zoë asked me tonight as we were lying on bed, "what color is the moon"
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"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."
Chinese Proverb
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Dr. Amy Ashurst Gooch http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~agooch
Assistant Professor amy.a.gooch at gmail.com
Computer Science amygooch at uvic.ca
University of Victoria agooch at cs.uvic.ca
(250)-483-5941 (Canada)
(801)-649-3923 (SLC Virtual)
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I thought for a bit on this.... Thinking about how the images we think about of the moon are the stuff we were fed from the 60's, thinking about rumors of fakery, thinking about how it looks through our atmosphere and it sent me on quite an Internet search... I am still not sure I know the answer, but am very excited by Zoë's question.
I will have to show her what I found tomorrow.
--
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"Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand."
Chinese Proverb
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dr. Amy Ashurst Gooch http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~agooch
Assistant Professor amy.a.gooch at gmail.com
Computer Science amygooch at uvic.ca
University of Victoria agooch at cs.uvic.ca
(250)-483-5941 (Canada)
(801)-649-3923 (SLC Virtual)
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Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Zoë's 6 and is in 1rst grade, well almost!
Zoë turned 6 years old this morning...what a smart, funny, sincere,
artistic young lady she has become. This morning or last night.. it
became clear that she expected something for her birthday.. and school
was not it.. (reminds me of Auntie Carrie!)... she kept saying
something about Asha coming to her school for her birthday to check it
out.. I kept reminding her that she did have school and that Asha and
Claire after their own days at school would come over for dinner.
Last night I made more than 26 cup cakes for her to take to school...
She had chosen lemon cake with purple frosting and gummy worms on
top.. I added oreo cookie crumbs.. She got to share them with her old
class mates and they all sang happy birthday to her before going into
school. Today was Day 2 of School, a full day (8:38 to 2:41), Day 1
was 9am to 11:30am.. and weirdly this school starts out with the
students in their old class rooms.
this whole school thing has had me in a dither.. all the students
(grade 1-5) are supposed to be in their classrooms tomorrow, after
first recess... apparently this is the same for other schools such as
Hobbs, but Willows students spent the whole day in their new
classrooms starting today. I heard was that they had an unusual
number of new students and they were still sorting the classes.. one
parent who does a lot of PTA
stuff said they have had problems in previous years with say an
English speaking class that was underprescribed and they did
a1rst/2nd year split or something. Another parent told me that the
district has to approve the classroom roles (sizes?) and they were
waiting for that. The fact is the kids did have class in the library
the whole day..with a really, really nice substitute teacher.. Mme
Gardner (her teacher from last year) was busy with orientation and
setting up class distributions for the french
kindergarteners...
When we picked our kids up they were on the playground.. (I found that
disconcerning as well)... I'm going to write a letter to the school
board, principal etc. listing my displeasure.. I've never seen such
and administrative overload of work on the first two days of school..
My friend tells me that it must be nice for the kids to return to
comfort, but I can't help but feel that idea is ridiculous and the
students should just have one day of anxiety, the first day, and not
the whole first week. We were not told of any of this, and as new
parents to 1rst graders I find the whole process atrocious.
That said, Zoe is very happy, all the kids seemed happy, and perhaps
it is just me being more anxious about the whole process. I just want
to know who she has for teacher and get on with the year. I went to
talk to Mme Gardner and it turns out I was going to quite miss her.. I
kind of cried a little.. felt very foolish, but she is such a good
teacher and Zoe's growth and how much she is changing brings me to
tears (happy ones).. its so monumental in some way.
drop off tomorrow is still at the kindergarten line up.. I'm
guessing they are in the library tomorrow again.. at least until
recess. Then when we pick them up, they will finally come out the
first grade door.
It sounded like Zoe had a good day, the only other word I heard was
that Luke called her "Bow-e" (long "o") and I asked her what she did
and she said "I ignored him. But it still hurt my feelings" We have
been talking a lot about how to deal with hurt.. I've given her both
the either ignore it (I too don't like confrontation) and the Gooch
method of annoy the heck of them back.. ie do the copy everything they
say thing to make fun of them, or get even.. "No, you're a Bow-e".. or
make something up. Seems like she is more like me... I just hope she
doesn't internalize like her dad. (you know, save it up, blow up
later).
When we got home, I finished making her choice of Spaghetti Dinner..
with meatballs.. it turned out delicious.. So much so that all three
kids had seconds (which you have to see as quite the accomplishment..
they never, never eat that way; sometimes getting them to eat at all
is a chore... they ate so much, they left no room for crumble and ice
cream.. although they tried to eat some). I seem to have lost my touch
for cooking pasta.. I didn't buy enough.. I'm the opposite of my mom
in that way.
Zoe and the girls and Finn played hard all night.. and really well..
we never had to find something to distract them. Once we said good by
to our friends, I put Zoe in the bath and Finn and I wrapped
presents.. no time like the present (lol). Finn was so excited to
give something to Zoe, he went to the easel and painted her a picture.
They were so cute together and Zoe was sooooo gracious when she got
her gift from him (I think I got video at the tail end of her thanking
him). Really she was so very gracious about all her gifts, ooooh and
awwww all the way, "thank you"s.. "you are the best mom ever, really".
In the end Finn drew two more pictures, and ask Zoe to make one for
him. A mom couldn't be prouder of her two kids.
Tomorrow is only Thursday, two more days of school.. longest week
ever. But it will all work out. But that is not how I want to end
this day. I want to end this day thinking about Zoe, and how she has
changed from that little baby we kept happy in the bouncy seat so she
would sleep, or co-sleeping when we had to... and now a 6 year old,
learning a second language, taking care of her friends, her brother,
and mostly going to sleep on her own.. except on those few nights that
she can't.. like last night.. where she comes downstairs... where I am
watching tv in a very quiet, dark room, she sneaks up on me, drops her
tiny toy stuffie dog on my head, like a spider, and makes me eeeek and
jump.. then giggles herself silly because she got me!
artistic young lady she has become. This morning or last night.. it
became clear that she expected something for her birthday.. and school
was not it.. (reminds me of Auntie Carrie!)... she kept saying
something about Asha coming to her school for her birthday to check it
out.. I kept reminding her that she did have school and that Asha and
Claire after their own days at school would come over for dinner.
Last night I made more than 26 cup cakes for her to take to school...
She had chosen lemon cake with purple frosting and gummy worms on
top.. I added oreo cookie crumbs.. She got to share them with her old
class mates and they all sang happy birthday to her before going into
school. Today was Day 2 of School, a full day (8:38 to 2:41), Day 1
was 9am to 11:30am.. and weirdly this school starts out with the
students in their old class rooms.
this whole school thing has had me in a dither.. all the students
(grade 1-5) are supposed to be in their classrooms tomorrow, after
first recess... apparently this is the same for other schools such as
Hobbs, but Willows students spent the whole day in their new
classrooms starting today. I heard was that they had an unusual
number of new students and they were still sorting the classes.. one
parent who does a lot of PTA
stuff said they have had problems in previous years with say an
English speaking class that was underprescribed and they did
a1rst/2nd year split or something. Another parent told me that the
district has to approve the classroom roles (sizes?) and they were
waiting for that. The fact is the kids did have class in the library
the whole day..with a really, really nice substitute teacher.. Mme
Gardner (her teacher from last year) was busy with orientation and
setting up class distributions for the french
kindergarteners...
When we picked our kids up they were on the playground.. (I found that
disconcerning as well)... I'm going to write a letter to the school
board, principal etc. listing my displeasure.. I've never seen such
and administrative overload of work on the first two days of school..
My friend tells me that it must be nice for the kids to return to
comfort, but I can't help but feel that idea is ridiculous and the
students should just have one day of anxiety, the first day, and not
the whole first week. We were not told of any of this, and as new
parents to 1rst graders I find the whole process atrocious.
That said, Zoe is very happy, all the kids seemed happy, and perhaps
it is just me being more anxious about the whole process. I just want
to know who she has for teacher and get on with the year. I went to
talk to Mme Gardner and it turns out I was going to quite miss her.. I
kind of cried a little.. felt very foolish, but she is such a good
teacher and Zoe's growth and how much she is changing brings me to
tears (happy ones).. its so monumental in some way.
drop off tomorrow is still at the kindergarten line up.. I'm
guessing they are in the library tomorrow again.. at least until
recess. Then when we pick them up, they will finally come out the
first grade door.
It sounded like Zoe had a good day, the only other word I heard was
that Luke called her "Bow-e" (long "o") and I asked her what she did
and she said "I ignored him. But it still hurt my feelings" We have
been talking a lot about how to deal with hurt.. I've given her both
the either ignore it (I too don't like confrontation) and the Gooch
method of annoy the heck of them back.. ie do the copy everything they
say thing to make fun of them, or get even.. "No, you're a Bow-e".. or
make something up. Seems like she is more like me... I just hope she
doesn't internalize like her dad. (you know, save it up, blow up
later).
When we got home, I finished making her choice of Spaghetti Dinner..
with meatballs.. it turned out delicious.. So much so that all three
kids had seconds (which you have to see as quite the accomplishment..
they never, never eat that way; sometimes getting them to eat at all
is a chore... they ate so much, they left no room for crumble and ice
cream.. although they tried to eat some). I seem to have lost my touch
for cooking pasta.. I didn't buy enough.. I'm the opposite of my mom
in that way.
Zoe and the girls and Finn played hard all night.. and really well..
we never had to find something to distract them. Once we said good by
to our friends, I put Zoe in the bath and Finn and I wrapped
presents.. no time like the present (lol). Finn was so excited to
give something to Zoe, he went to the easel and painted her a picture.
They were so cute together and Zoe was sooooo gracious when she got
her gift from him (I think I got video at the tail end of her thanking
him). Really she was so very gracious about all her gifts, ooooh and
awwww all the way, "thank you"s.. "you are the best mom ever, really".
In the end Finn drew two more pictures, and ask Zoe to make one for
him. A mom couldn't be prouder of her two kids.
Tomorrow is only Thursday, two more days of school.. longest week
ever. But it will all work out. But that is not how I want to end
this day. I want to end this day thinking about Zoe, and how she has
changed from that little baby we kept happy in the bouncy seat so she
would sleep, or co-sleeping when we had to... and now a 6 year old,
learning a second language, taking care of her friends, her brother,
and mostly going to sleep on her own.. except on those few nights that
she can't.. like last night.. where she comes downstairs... where I am
watching tv in a very quiet, dark room, she sneaks up on me, drops her
tiny toy stuffie dog on my head, like a spider, and makes me eeeek and
jump.. then giggles herself silly because she got me!
Sunday, September 2, 2012
vocabulary
Zoe has been expanding her vocabulary... in an less than lady like way... trying out F*ck every now and then. At a girls night out with Andrea, she mentioned that her oldest Megan had started saying it.. I promptly apologized.. I'm not sure who did it first. But after a week with the Frost girls, Zoe told me one night: "Mom, I have something to tell you...F*ck is God's brother"... I really wish I could have been the fly on the wall for that discussion.
last week of summer
22 Full steam ahead.JPG (image/jpeg) 325K
23 Beach combing.jpg (image/jpeg) 212K
24 has anyone seen my toes.jpg (image/jpeg) 248K
25 Climbing and jumping.jpg (image/jpeg) 239K
26 Megs and Finn rowing the boat.jpg (image/jpeg) 266K
27 Singing row row row the boat.....jpg (image/jpeg) 235K
Fwd: Third e-mail
15 Hiding from the monster.JPG (image/jpeg) 291K
16 Climbing the mountain.JPG (image/jpeg) 274K
17 Safest way to come down.JPG (image/jpeg) 273K
18 Rolling down....getting dirty.JPG (image/jpeg) 329K
19 The Famous Five.JPG (image/jpeg) 363K
20 Conquering the second hill.JPG (image/jpeg) 304K
last week of summer
8 Snack time.JPG (image/jpeg) 245K
9 Ice cream time.JPG (image/jpeg) 293K
10 Zoe.JPG (image/jpeg) 271K
11 Summertime fun.JPG (image/jpeg) 264K
12 Finn catches the drips.JPG (image/jpeg) 285K
13 Feeding time again.JPG (image/jpeg) 264K
Photos from last week
1 Enjoying the sun.JPG (image/jpeg) 288K
2 Creative corner.JPG (image/jpeg) 242K
3 Goofing around.JPG (image/jpeg) 260K
4 Playing with the rocks.JPG (image/jpeg) 295K
5 Snack time.JPG (image/jpeg) 247K
6 Crazy faces for the camera.JPG (image/jpeg) 247K
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