Tuesday, February 14, 2006
News and Reviews
As usual, another very nice weekend. Friday evening we got together with our friends the Deavers for dinner and a play date. All of the kids are now old enough where they need little (direct) supervision from us, so we adults actually get to visit for awhile. Who would have thought the day would ever come…
I spent Saturday working on a carpentry project. Using scrap wood from another project, I’m making a DVD rack. I have no written plans and am building this thing based on a mental picture. As you can imagine, it looks just like a project with no written plans. I thought I had completed it Monday night and brought it into the house for Nora to see. It doesn’t look bad, but the weight of a full shelf of DVDs causes the supporting dowels to bow and all the DVDs to fall off. Looks like I have a bit more work to do.
Sunday we all went to the Bristol for a very nice Valentine’s Day brunch. The food was fantastic and Pierce and Anna wolfed down waffles and sausage like nobody’s business. Afterwards we went to go see the new Curious George movie. It was a big hit. Its really targeted towards kids Pierce and Anna’s age, so they were thoroughly absorbed. The movie’s very sincere and heartfelt. Nora and I enjoyed it too.
Pierce made me a Valentine’s Day drawing. I think it’s his best drawing yet. It features all the characters from Charlie and the Chocolate factory: there’s a boy up to his neck in chocolate, a blue girl swollen to the dimensions of a blueberry, a boy who’s been shrunk to “TV-size”, and another girl being pushed down the trash chute with her unhappy father looking on. It’s proudly hanging from my office wall.
Nora and I took a tour of the local elementary school with the school’s principal yesterday. We’ve been evaluating Pierce’s kindergarten options for the last few weeks. He can either stay in his current school for another year (our preference, but expensive), go to a Catholic school (which we toured a week ago) or go to a public elementary school, Walnut Grove. For you history buffs, Walnut Grove is the school Laura Ingle taught in Little House on the Prairie. And yes, the original one-room schoolhouse is actually on the grounds of this elementary school.
We’ve ultimately decided to leave Pierce in his Montessori School; given the wonderful strides he’s made in math and reading we don’t want to slow his momentum. Pierce is reading at (I think) about a 2nd grade level, and Nora and I don’t want to put him in an environment where he’s not continuing to build on his current success. That being said, we were very impressed with Walnut Grove. When Pierce is ready for 1st grade we think the elementary school will be a good fit.
Anna’s potty training continues to progress. We think she’s about 98% of the way there and she frequently wakes in the morning still dry. She probably has an “accident” a couple of times a week. I’m betting that when we go to Corolla, NC for this year’s vacation we’ll be leaving the pull-ups at home.
-Eric (Dad)
I spent Saturday working on a carpentry project. Using scrap wood from another project, I’m making a DVD rack. I have no written plans and am building this thing based on a mental picture. As you can imagine, it looks just like a project with no written plans. I thought I had completed it Monday night and brought it into the house for Nora to see. It doesn’t look bad, but the weight of a full shelf of DVDs causes the supporting dowels to bow and all the DVDs to fall off. Looks like I have a bit more work to do.
Sunday we all went to the Bristol for a very nice Valentine’s Day brunch. The food was fantastic and Pierce and Anna wolfed down waffles and sausage like nobody’s business. Afterwards we went to go see the new Curious George movie. It was a big hit. Its really targeted towards kids Pierce and Anna’s age, so they were thoroughly absorbed. The movie’s very sincere and heartfelt. Nora and I enjoyed it too.
Pierce made me a Valentine’s Day drawing. I think it’s his best drawing yet. It features all the characters from Charlie and the Chocolate factory: there’s a boy up to his neck in chocolate, a blue girl swollen to the dimensions of a blueberry, a boy who’s been shrunk to “TV-size”, and another girl being pushed down the trash chute with her unhappy father looking on. It’s proudly hanging from my office wall.
Nora and I took a tour of the local elementary school with the school’s principal yesterday. We’ve been evaluating Pierce’s kindergarten options for the last few weeks. He can either stay in his current school for another year (our preference, but expensive), go to a Catholic school (which we toured a week ago) or go to a public elementary school, Walnut Grove. For you history buffs, Walnut Grove is the school Laura Ingle taught in Little House on the Prairie. And yes, the original one-room schoolhouse is actually on the grounds of this elementary school.
We’ve ultimately decided to leave Pierce in his Montessori School; given the wonderful strides he’s made in math and reading we don’t want to slow his momentum. Pierce is reading at (I think) about a 2nd grade level, and Nora and I don’t want to put him in an environment where he’s not continuing to build on his current success. That being said, we were very impressed with Walnut Grove. When Pierce is ready for 1st grade we think the elementary school will be a good fit.
Anna’s potty training continues to progress. We think she’s about 98% of the way there and she frequently wakes in the morning still dry. She probably has an “accident” a couple of times a week. I’m betting that when we go to Corolla, NC for this year’s vacation we’ll be leaving the pull-ups at home.
-Eric (Dad)
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