After playing for a while in Shawn’s room, both of the kids started bringing me books from the bookshelves. I took that as a sign that they wanted story time. So, we all climbed onto the rocking chair (good thing it’s the extra-wide seat model!) and I put my feet up on the ottoman to help keep anyone from sliding off my lap. We read a rhyming and very rhythmic story about a concert in the park, I Like the Music by Leah Komaiko. Abby especially liked the line, “I like the beat – Of my feet – When my shoes hit the street – And I rapa-tapa-tapa – On the hot concrete.” But, she got a little carried away when her feet started going “rapa-tapa-tapa” on my shins! Ouch! We also read some nursery rhymes and the kids helped me finish some of the lines.
Then, Abby looked like she was begin to fade, so Shawn excused us while I put her down for a nap. When I came back, Shawn made a special request for his, what else??, “dump truh book” (Tonka Big Book of Trucks by Patricia Relf)! We flipped through the pages and I let Shawn do most of the “reading” this time. Luckily, it’s not a story that needs to be read from beginning to end, each page features different types of trucks working together to do a job, i.e. build a house. After a few pages in random order, we said “Night-night dump truh!” and turned out the lights.
Since Abby was still fighting her way back to health and Shawn didn’t actually fall asleep for about half an hour after she did, we were not likely to have everyone up and ready to go in time for Family Gym at Gymboree this afternoon. I’d rather they get a good nap than wake them before they’re ready.
When they did wake up, it was time to play. They found a couple of calculators in our computer room. Rather than playing with the buttons, which is what Shawn usually likes to do with them, they pretended they were telephones and proceeded to “call” each other over and over again!
If phones have calculators on them these days, shouldn't calculators have phones on them, too?
I bet you were roflyao on this one. How did yhou hold the camera still enough to get the picts?
ReplyDeleteOh, Yeah! They were cracking me up! There are many times that I wish I had faster reflexes to catch them in action. Sometimes I have the camera or Flip closeby, but they stop what they're doing before I can capture the moment. Big Bummer! I think I got lucky with the calculators because they were too engrossed in their "phone calls" to notice (or care) that I was taking pictures. Other times the pix I do get are action shots and too blurry to make out or they're way too close to me to even see on the Flip. They both want to see what's on the camera/Flip when they see me using them, so they'll come over to me and try to look at the screen, rather than do whatever it was that they were doing to be on camera in the first place! Arg! I am SOOOOOO grateful for digital cameras, etc. otherwise I'd own stock in Kodak just for the number of rolls of film I'd go through!
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