Art

My final art project is about mutiples and/or ready made. Very difficult to create something which isn't too simplistic or obvious. This is pretty obvious so I'm digging deeper this week. The project is due on Thursday so I better get the synapses firing.

cool scrabble game

Hazel, Coco, Bruce and I played this fun Dora/Diego scrabble game. Hazel mostly got in the way but we actually played one game and Coco won.

Pic of the deck

This kid at the park...

There is this kid at my local park. I've seen him there twice with his nanny. The first time he threw a metal car and hit my 4 year old in the head. The second time, he would not stop walking in front of the swings and then proceeded to violently rip the hair out of my dog when he "pet" her. His nanny was wonderful. "No gentle", she said. And luckily my dog is super or I wouldn't bring her to the park in the first place. I showed him the proper way to pet a dog but he just did not get it. The boy was around 2 I'm guessing.

I think he may have been autistic or something. I only say that as I was recently at a birthday party where there was an autistic child. The parents had to monitor that kid all party. He was very hyper and inappropriate behaviour. At first, I thought he was just an active kid then later my friend explained.

So all this leads me to say... When you are at the park, you need to watch your own kids but you also have to keep an eye on other kids too.

This little boy may pulled Hazel off the thing she was climbing. I'll never know, but his behaviour leads me to believe that he is capable of doing it.

I appreciate any thoughts on this touchy subject. Anyone had any similar experiences?

My fave book

"The Good Food Book For Families" by Brenda Bradshaw and Cheryl Mutch. Apologies if I have posted about this book before. No, I am not making royalties off the sales. I just find the recipes easy and nutritious and they speak a lot about nutrition in easy to read format. I just learnt that glucose fuels the brain and little kids need 3 meals and 3 small snacks a day for brain energy. Luckily I have been doing this. Whew.

Lots of stuff happening...

The cherry blossoms are out in full force.

Bruce made our deck low maintenance so hopefully this will be the last time, for a while, that he'll have to spend time on it. Old design required lifted the boards off to clean under the deck twice a year. New design just needs sweeping of the leaves.

Hazel said "yuck, that's disgusting" about onions or something and then later, "I'm eating a booger" which really is disgusting.

Coco's new thing is "I need more research books" and "I'm feeling guilty". A new concept which a 4 year old doesn't quite get. We aren't Catholic either. She just heard this word and is trying it out in relation to her neck injury, which possibly resulted from head butting with Kieren or just sleeping on it funny.

We saw a marvelous play today called 'A Year With Frog and Toad". I bought tickets back in November to the preview show. It is a musical. Hazel had a chair but sat on my lap, as the chair was folding her up. Anyway, she didn't move for the entire 55 min. play and clapped at the appropriate times. She's 2 years, 4 months. I wasn't sure if she was ready for live theatre but obviously she is! Coco and Bruce loved it too.

will post pics later.

Some funny things

At least three times a day, Hazel says "frogit?" and smiles sweetly. It always catches me by surprise. She means CHOCOLATE. Once I made her an egg for breakfast. Oh, she cried when I put it on the table in front of her. She had meant a chocolate egg!

Hazel also likes to say "boy pants" and "boy jacket". We got some hand me downs from a boy. Sometimes she will wear pink or a dress. Oh well, everything is stained anyway.