A Little Birdie
A Little Birdie “What’s for the snack sack today?” “A little birdie.” “Okay,” I said as I ran a search and handed him my iPhone. “I wanted a real bird,” he complained after a minute...
February 2013
Monarch Butterfly
Monarch Butterfly Today is the Fun Run at school and Victor came downstairs wearing his special Fun Run t-shirt. It had a large imprint of his elementary school mascot, the monarch butterfly. He liked the...
A Robot
A Robot “What’s for the snack sack today?” I asked him. “Let’s see,” he said contemplatively, “a machine!” “What kind of machine?” “Um, no. A robot!” “Okay.” I searched for robots and handed him my...
Snowboarder Guy
Snowboarder Guy We spent last week at Mammoth Mountain. I skied for the first time in over 20 years and he snowboarded for the first time ever. He really wanted to try snowboarding, but after...
Skippyjon Jones
Skippyjon Jones We had forgotten that he had suggested we do Skippyjon Jones a few days ago after reading one of the funny books in the series. I reminded him this morning. “Okay, yeah!” he...
I Love You…This Much
I Love You…This Much “How about something Valentine’s-y?” I asked him. “Sure,” he said but he didn’t have any ideas. On the kitchen table was a cute art project he brought home yesterday. It had...
Tasmanian Devil
Tasmanian Devil We’ve been talking about Looney Tunes a lot the past few days. We’ve never watched any of the cartoons together, but it turns out that he’s been watching them at school. He picked...
Action Scene: T-Rex vs. Croc
Action Scene: T-Rex vs. Croc He asked for another dinosaur this morning, but he returned the book to his school library yesterday. I did a search and handed him my iPhone. I asked him to...
Ankylosaurus
Ankylosaurus He picked a dinosaur from the book this morning. It happened to be Ankylosaurus. It was a rough morning with us getting a late start and him not cooperating. I rushed through this one,...
Skylanders: Slam Bam
Skylanders: Slam Bam “A rocket?” Boy he had trouble picking something this morning. He kept throwing out ideas for things we’ve already done. I blurted out lots of different categories hoping to instigate a new...