I’ve always wished that I could stop my children from aging. Just freeze them at a point in their life so that we could all well and thoroughly enjoy it. There were a few ages that I was particularly fond of. Just after learning to crawl. Just as they were acquiring speech. 18 months was [...]
Do your kids have ESP?
This is actually from a few months ago. She writes much more clearly now. In fact, she’s such a good speller that we can’t use spelling as a secret code any more while talking. If you look carefully, you can match up most of the words from the original to the translation.
Original text:
Der Mommy werb [...]
“You’re a scaredy-cat.”
“I am not! I’m seven.”
“Well, I’m seven, too.”
“I was born on March 16.”
“I was born on February 1.”
“Oh yeah, well, I was born in 1999!”
“So? I was born in 1898!”
“Oh. Well, you were born first then.”
We just finished watching the PBS program Texas Ranch House which is a mini-series that attempts to teach a little history about ranch-era Texas by dressing a bunch of volunteers in frontier costumes and transporting them “back in time” to 1867 to run a ranch and herd cattle and see how long they can put [...]
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