Enjoying the second week of school holidays, with a lighter schedule this week.
Monday, jammie day!
– from my iPhone
Month: September 2013
Squishy yarn!
There is a yarn called Squishy!
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Conservation
About six months ago, I tested Inigo for his ability to understand the concept of conservation – if I pour a cup of water into a cup of water into a shallow, wide glass, and a cup of water into a tall, narrow glass, it looks different, but it’s still a cup of water.
Young children don’t get this, older children do. I tested him again today, and he got it straight away. Piaget did some pretty unethical things to his poor child in the name of science, but I understand the thrill!
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Attempted Murder
My blog friend Behan is living the life we all secretly want, sailing the world and homeschooling/unschooling/natural learning with her kids on the way. I read voraciously, because I am taking notes for my next holiday, and hope I can be as cool as her one day!
She recently confessed a love of anemone fish (which I share), so I promised her an anecdote about one of these guys on our first Vietnam trip. I may have already shared it here, so look away if you don’t want to read it again, but I suspect my storytelling is slightly better this time – cross posted from Behan’s blog.
We were staying at a little island of Nha Trang in Vietnam (Whale Island). I’m asthmatic, and though enthusiastic, not a confident snorkeler. I couldn’t go out unless the bay was as flat as plate glass, because getting water down my snorkel was terrifying (the asthma has made me quite claustrophobic).
So one day, the water is a little too choppy for my liking (but I’m becoming more confident), and Mark is intent on exploring some new areas we hadn’t visited before. My rented mask keeps letting in water, but only a bit at a time, so I put on my bog girl panties and decide to just deal with it.
Until…
Mark freedives down to look at an anemone, out of which darts the most aggressive anemone fish I have EVER seen. It fully charged him, stopping only about 6 inches from his mask, to stare him down in as bold a manner as a Kings Cross bouncer.
At which point I cracked up, my laugh lines created a channel by which the sea water was able to stream into my mask, and the resultant hysterical laughter coupled with inhalation of seawater was a sight to behold.
Well played small fish, well played.
Hats for Papa
Papa has lymphoma. He’s started chemo, and I got the first hat to him (Bendigo harmony, cotton wool blend) just days before he started to lose his hair.
This is hat number two, a Bendigo wool and bamboo blend that is fantastically squishy and yummy.
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Extras for dinner!
The next door neighbors go to church with one of Squishy’s school mates, and this afternoon the house was full ok kids. I had to bribe him to eat his dinner, and the price was an audience.
Then the audience decided that dinner smelled yummy, and they wanted some!
It was very cute. Five kids eating curry, and loving it!
Huge!
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First assignment
Squishy needed to make a farm animal for a school project this week. Since he was sick last night and I couldn’t send him to school, we went to spotlight to see what we could come up with.
Do you like our chick?
Disco Knitter 