........ Zoë Serenity Gooch........: October 2012

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Halloween...

Zoë has been lucky enough to go to many per Halloween parties.. So far in a a different costume every time...

First it was Madison's birthday part and she went as a witch princess... Dark black and red dress with a dark crown.. Next time the Halloween dance, as a gymnast... Today as Alice in wonderland (yes, the same dress from ... Last year...). We have one more party tomorrow... Wonder how that will go... :)

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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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First sleep over

Zoë is at her first sleep over away without her parents... Yes I admit, I miss her more than I am sure she misses me... And Finn asked for her repeatedly... Can't wait to hear how it goes...

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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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Thursday, October 25, 2012

Halloween dance

Zoë, Finn, and I went to Zoë's school Halloween dance. It was a smashing success... Finn was not afraid to be in the dark on the sparsely lit disco dance floor all by himself jiving around. He went as a knight.. He was also very chivalrous.. Zoe went in her gymnastics outfit and spent the first bit before it got crowded practicing her cart wheels, which are getting very good. Mid way through Finn however got very tired ... But Zoe found her groove and all her friends... We finally drug her out 16 minutes before the close of the dance. In the car she was pumped shouting how this was the greatest night ever. How she had never had so much fun. How she was never going to another school, how this was the best school ever... Ahhhh... Even I enjoyed it.. I didn't take any pics... Just lived in the moment and tried to keep track of two kids in the dark... I never liked going clubbing, but watching your kids in a kid size club is a great moment I hope to repeat!

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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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Found a ring.. Theory of all by Zoë

[setting the scene: we were in the car, returning from grocery shopping, Finn found a ring with a non functional digital clock in it...]

Z: Finn, you don't have to know how to tell time, just look into your heart. Find your destiny. You don't have to believe in this hooey stuff. The key is to find what you are. What is actually yours. It is time to look into your heart.

F: I don't have to!

Z: yes, you do. You'll learn to count .... and later you'll learn to tell time....

[I wrote this in the car as she was saying it... It was too good to get wrong. I may have missed some of it, but I have written the parts I caught exactly as they were said. Bruce and I did all we could not to burst!]