April 9th, 2015 by admin
Like mother like son
April 9th, 2015 by admin
Teddy went with his class to the Natural History Museum today and I got to go with them. It was so much fun. They were so cute and excited and so well behaved. Teddy was very excited. “Mommy! It’s my first time on a school bus.” And made me hold him near the mummies because he was afraid. I learned so much from Darrell. He wasn’t worried about taking the children into a crowded museum or about making sure the saw this or that. He kept watch, knew we would keep them in sight and trusted them to choose what they wanted to see. When I pointed out that the boys in our group wanted to watch movies and screens more than any other parts of the exhibits, rather than saying something like “too much screen time,” like some would say in a complaint tone, he said “Yes they are just mesmerized by it. ”
April 9th, 2015 by admin
We’ve been listening to the Hardy Boys books in the car.
Charlie “They have really good ideas how to catch bad guys. Obama should use some of these ideas. We should write to Obama to tell him this.”
April 9th, 2015 by admin
A lesson for the children: show up, participate and add value. That’s what we expect and encourage you to do to get the most out of life and to give the most.
April 9th, 2015 by admin
Teddy “Mommy, I know you love me so much because of I was in te arctic alone you would come get me. “
ALB “Yes, Teddy, that is very true.”
April 9th, 2015 by admin
Prince Charles was a guest at a dinner party around the corner a few weeks ago so of course we had to drive by. Everyone was really excited until I showed them a picture of Prince Charles and Scottie and Nelly determined they weren’t interested in him but rather in William and Kate and of course needed me to buy them a book about the recent royal wedding.
April 9th, 2015 by admin
Charlie has been really interested in US Marshalls (after reading a book about Bass Reeves) and was so happy to go to the courthouse so grandpa Hon John could show him around and introduce him to Marshalls.
On they way home we had the following conversation:
Charlie “Judges are some of the most important people in the world. I could help Grandpa John be a judge. I know fair. I know suspicious. I know evidence. I saw a guy smoking a pipe. “
ALB “True. Judges are important because not only do they help punish bad guys as you know, but they make sure punishments are fair and that only the people guilty of doing something bad are punished. Some people are accused of doing something wrong but didn’t actually do it and judges make sure those people aren’t punished. Have you ever been wrongfully accused?”
Charlie “Yes. But bad guys so go to jail.”
ALB “Yes bad guys go to jail or doing some other sort of punishment.”
Charlie “Oh I know what you’re talking about. Like if they don’t go to jail they might have to do something like clean up or work in childcare. “
What kind of childcare workers have you seen, Charlie, that give you this idea?
Next day Charlie and Teddy are fighting in the backseat of the car
Charlie “Teddy!!!! Stop it!!!!! You are assaulting me.”
Teddy “No, you are assaulting me. And you could go to jail. That would actually be sad.”
Or I suppose go into childcare.
