Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Kissing
We just bought Zoe and Finn new costumes at Costco. Zoe got a new mermaid costume and Finn a centurion, which he calls a mighty knight. They changed before we got out of the parking lot. Zoe started in on how they needed to practice, and this apparently meant practice kissing... Which they did the whole way home... It was so darn cute! Pics from bruce's cell soon...
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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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"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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Friday, August 19, 2011
quotes and things from the week
As part of dance camp week, Lise (Claire's mom) picked up both girls and took them back for a play. Lise told me a few things:
She asked Zoe if she knew her phone number, she said, "No, but you can call my mom and ask her"
She without hesitation just started floating and swimming on her back in their pool.
Lise describes Zoe as fearless.. willing to try anything; it is great to hear such things about my beautiful warrior princess.
She asked Zoe if she knew her phone number, she said, "No, but you can call my mom and ask her"
She without hesitation just started floating and swimming on her back in their pool.
Lise describes Zoe as fearless.. willing to try anything; it is great to hear such things about my beautiful warrior princess.
first dance recital
Zoe finished her first dance camp (9-2, for a week)... and loved it.. I asked her after the first day what she thought and she said, "It was marvelous". Today she had her recital.. videos up soon.
The first routine was ballet, then tap, then jazz (to the tune of "walk like a dinosaur").. and finally a shortened version of Annie's "Hard knock life". It was pretty clear to me, that Jazz is probably Zoe's favorite.. but when I asked her what was her favorite, she wouldn't make a strong statement. when I asked her which should would want to do as a class, she told me I could pick.
It was clear that performing is one of her things, she never looked nervous or anxious.. she quite enjoyed it.
The first routine was ballet, then tap, then jazz (to the tune of "walk like a dinosaur").. and finally a shortened version of Annie's "Hard knock life". It was pretty clear to me, that Jazz is probably Zoe's favorite.. but when I asked her what was her favorite, she wouldn't make a strong statement. when I asked her which should would want to do as a class, she told me I could pick.
It was clear that performing is one of her things, she never looked nervous or anxious.. she quite enjoyed it.
Monday, August 15, 2011
today
the day backwards...
Zoe and Finn are now in the backyard playing their favorite new game:
"Now you yell from there..." where they climb somewhere, and yell as
loud as they can, then the next person goes... right before that Zoe
went outside and yelled, "Nana! Grandpa!"... they left today after
spending time watching the kids on their own for 4 days while we were
at SIGGRAPH.. the kids really enjoyed their grandparents... I just
heard Zoe yell for Grandpa again.
previous to that Zoe was playing yoga instructor... at some point I
was to be a blade of grass... laying low, then put my bum in the air
and then leap forward and growl at my neighbor... I'm guessing that
came from Dance class today. She had her first day of Dance camp was
a raving success... "it was marvelous" as she said.. they did Ballet,
Tap, Jazz, Song and Dance (Hard knock life from Annie)... she did it
with her friend Claire.. it was great.
Finn had a 3 hour nap today, he's not been eating much, drinking lots
of milk, wanting to nurse often, I hope it passes quickly. I wish I
could attribute it to our walk around the Beaver Lake Ponds, but since
I carried him most of the way,... I think he's got a bit of a cold
brewing.
Finn noticed that Grandpa wasn't around about 11am... the two of them
got on so well.. finally Finn had someone to toss him around as much
as he likes.. (video to go up soon)
When we dropped Zoe off, Finn was the one who had a hard time. He did
not want to leave Zoe, wanted to stay with her. Perhaps in two years
they will do the camp together. They are both natural theatre majors
in the making.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Look what I drew!
Get Glow Draw at http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=364873934&mt=8. It's FREE!
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Zoe at Andrea's
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