Thursday, March 22, 2007
Catching up
Hmmm, you can always tell when work gets busy, my blog updates become a lot less frequent.
Nora and I may have taken a slight "mis-step"; with daylights savings time both Pierce and Anna had a hard time making the adjustment. Pierce was the worst -he tossed and turned for hours after going to bed. In an attempt to help him out, Nora and I told him that if he had a hard time going to sleep he was allowed to turn on his light and read for a little while. So, of course, Pierce has turned on his light and read every night. We're going to rescind the "privilege" when Spring break ends.
The family went to the Toy and Minature Museum a few weeks ago and it was a big hit. Some of the dollhouses we saw were amazing. They also had a display room full of marbles. Supposedly it had over a million marbles in it with many of them over 100 years old. The room also contained kinetic marble sculptures (think rolling marbles, tracks and elevators). Pierce and Anna have seen this kind of artwork before, but these were much larger in scale.
We have a marble kit we picked up at a garage sale called "Marble-ous", that lets you make your own kinetic sculptor. So, of course, Pierce wanted to break it out. I hate the thing. Its says its for age 8 and up, but I have a hard time with it. The thing has hundreds of pieces and the directions are practically non existent. But, of course, I'll do anything for Pierce and Anna. After two separate "construction" sessions we got a sculpture built. It is very cool. And Pierce likes to put his matchbox cars on it. Go figure.
Anna keeps getting bigger (I know, I know. What else would she be doing...). Her vocabulary is really exploding and she's prepared to engage in a much greater scope of conversation. Its amazing to see it develop. Her mental growth is accompanied by physical growth. You can practically see her growing out of her clothes.
-Eric (Dad)
Nora and I may have taken a slight "mis-step"; with daylights savings time both Pierce and Anna had a hard time making the adjustment. Pierce was the worst -he tossed and turned for hours after going to bed. In an attempt to help him out, Nora and I told him that if he had a hard time going to sleep he was allowed to turn on his light and read for a little while. So, of course, Pierce has turned on his light and read every night. We're going to rescind the "privilege" when Spring break ends.
The family went to the Toy and Minature Museum a few weeks ago and it was a big hit. Some of the dollhouses we saw were amazing. They also had a display room full of marbles. Supposedly it had over a million marbles in it with many of them over 100 years old. The room also contained kinetic marble sculptures (think rolling marbles, tracks and elevators). Pierce and Anna have seen this kind of artwork before, but these were much larger in scale.
We have a marble kit we picked up at a garage sale called "Marble-ous", that lets you make your own kinetic sculptor. So, of course, Pierce wanted to break it out. I hate the thing. Its says its for age 8 and up, but I have a hard time with it. The thing has hundreds of pieces and the directions are practically non existent. But, of course, I'll do anything for Pierce and Anna. After two separate "construction" sessions we got a sculpture built. It is very cool. And Pierce likes to put his matchbox cars on it. Go figure.
Anna keeps getting bigger (I know, I know. What else would she be doing...). Her vocabulary is really exploding and she's prepared to engage in a much greater scope of conversation. Its amazing to see it develop. Her mental growth is accompanied by physical growth. You can practically see her growing out of her clothes.
-Eric (Dad)
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