Mom opens the door to the back room.
N: You can't go there!
Mom: I need to talk to gramanana for a minute.
N: You can't go there its under concerning!
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
Looking for pictures
N: Hey, Mom! I like your new book, let's read it together.
Mom: Let's see if we can find any pictures.
N: Yeah. Let's find pictures of anthropology nuns.
Mom: Let's see if we can find any pictures.
N: Yeah. Let's find pictures of anthropology nuns.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
A Joke, etc.
N: If Mona gets sunburned her fur will turn pink! Ha, Ha!
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Natasha is playing with her various toy animals.
N: Mom, lets play a game that there's a cow that needs surgery and the veterinarian has to go on hikes to get the medicine.
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N: If I went to a museum and saw a dinosaur skeleton I would be pretty surprised!
E: Oh, yeah, what would surprise you the most.
N: Well, it's surprising to see dinosaur bones I think.
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Natasha is playing with her various toy animals.
N: Mom, lets play a game that there's a cow that needs surgery and the veterinarian has to go on hikes to get the medicine.
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N: If I went to a museum and saw a dinosaur skeleton I would be pretty surprised!
E: Oh, yeah, what would surprise you the most.
N: Well, it's surprising to see dinosaur bones I think.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Two plays with an interlude...
(N makes a megaphone out of a rolled up piece of paper and shouts through it)
N: There's going to be a play! It's about someone guessing someone else's name!
(N dances around with four finger puppets on one hand. The characters dance for a few minutes and then she throws them into the air)
N: The play is over!
(Grandmanana and Mom applaud.)
N: It was going to be Rumplesquirtskin but they weren't into it.
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N runs into my bedroom with a pair of pants on her arms.
Mom: Why do you have pants on your arms?
N: Because roosters are NOT ALLOWED!
Mom: What do pants on your arms have to do with roosters?
N: It's to put the rooster in a soup.
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N: There is going to be another play! There is a dark shadow and that will be Rumpleshortskin!
N dances around for awhile and then settles into her character finger puppets having a conversation.
N: Is your name Fluffernutter? No. Is your name pooposnooper? No. Is your name rumpleshortskin?
Yes! YAY!The play is over!
N: There's going to be a play! It's about someone guessing someone else's name!
(N dances around with four finger puppets on one hand. The characters dance for a few minutes and then she throws them into the air)
N: The play is over!
(Grandmanana and Mom applaud.)
N: It was going to be Rumplesquirtskin but they weren't into it.
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N runs into my bedroom with a pair of pants on her arms.
Mom: Why do you have pants on your arms?
N: Because roosters are NOT ALLOWED!
Mom: What do pants on your arms have to do with roosters?
N: It's to put the rooster in a soup.
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N: There is going to be another play! There is a dark shadow and that will be Rumpleshortskin!
N dances around for awhile and then settles into her character finger puppets having a conversation.
N: Is your name Fluffernutter? No. Is your name pooposnooper? No. Is your name rumpleshortskin?
Yes! YAY!The play is over!
Monday, February 25, 2008
A Story
On Sunday morning I was working on the couch and Natasha offered to read me a book. She launched into the following story that I transcirbed as she talked. I sometimes interjected an encouraging "uh-huh" but she basically said all of the below in one sitting. Just FYI the book she was "reading" to me was a history of Nineteenth Century Christianity in the U.S. No pictures, just print. Also two notes on vocabulary "Free dance book" refers to a book of photographs of famous dancers that we own and sometimes look at. A caracal is a wild cat that lives in central Asia and Africa.
Do you want me to read you one of your books from your desk? ......There are lots of beautiful pictures. It's a free dance book. It's really amazing. (Natasha opens up the book) I learned about this in South America. See this, it's so incredible, you maybe might see some. It's incredibele at the end because there's a dog that is running through different kind of tubes and then it flies through outer space....Here's something you really like. It's a free dance book and it's called my first word phonics book. You might really like it. Some things are happening with the book. I'm fixing the book and making it into a different book. I'm making it into a a book about caracals. I've got caracal books that I already made today.
Do you want me to read you one of your books from your desk? ......There are lots of beautiful pictures. It's a free dance book. It's really amazing. (Natasha opens up the book) I learned about this in South America. See this, it's so incredible, you maybe might see some. It's incredibele at the end because there's a dog that is running through different kind of tubes and then it flies through outer space....Here's something you really like. It's a free dance book and it's called my first word phonics book. You might really like it. Some things are happening with the book. I'm fixing the book and making it into a different book. I'm making it into a a book about caracals. I've got caracal books that I already made today.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Flocker, running like the wind, etc.
N: I'm just going to put on my flocker. (Natasha takes an umbrella cover and puts it on her hand like a glove)
Mom: Flocker? What does that mean?
N: It's a little thing you wear in the rain if your hands get cold. I lost the other one, though. Why did I lose it?
Mom: I don't know. Why do you think you lost it?
N: I don't know anymore. I just lost it.
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Running down the sidewalk to the dojo with Mom, Dad, and friend, Julia.
N: We're running as fast as the wind!
Mom: We are? Wow, that's fast!
Dad: I can't feel the wind, maybe that's because we are running as fast as the wind.
N: Yes. I'm running that fast, are you mom?
Mom: I think so!
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Crawling into bed next to Mona who groans with sympathetic fatigue.
N: Oh, Mona. You have such a good life, little cat.
Mom: Flocker? What does that mean?
N: It's a little thing you wear in the rain if your hands get cold. I lost the other one, though. Why did I lose it?
Mom: I don't know. Why do you think you lost it?
N: I don't know anymore. I just lost it.
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Running down the sidewalk to the dojo with Mom, Dad, and friend, Julia.
N: We're running as fast as the wind!
Mom: We are? Wow, that's fast!
Dad: I can't feel the wind, maybe that's because we are running as fast as the wind.
N: Yes. I'm running that fast, are you mom?
Mom: I think so!
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Crawling into bed next to Mona who groans with sympathetic fatigue.
N: Oh, Mona. You have such a good life, little cat.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Water gopher ettiquette
Natasha runs through the front door.
N: The water gophers are not allowed inside the house.
Mom: Oh? Why is that?
N: Their feet are muddy and they'll track dirt all over the floor and it will take WEEKS to clean it up.
Mom: Good idea to keep them outside. Good call.
N: Yeah. AND... they are wild animals so they have to stay outside. Wild animals don't belong in the house.
Mom: That's right. Sounds good.
N: What's that water gohers? Oh, mom, I have to go feed them more, they're still hungry.
Natasha runs out the front door.
N: The water gophers are not allowed inside the house.
Mom: Oh? Why is that?
N: Their feet are muddy and they'll track dirt all over the floor and it will take WEEKS to clean it up.
Mom: Good idea to keep them outside. Good call.
N: Yeah. AND... they are wild animals so they have to stay outside. Wild animals don't belong in the house.
Mom: That's right. Sounds good.
N: What's that water gohers? Oh, mom, I have to go feed them more, they're still hungry.
Natasha runs out the front door.
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