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Picnics, verbs, Clue and numbers
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Dec. 14th, 2006 | 10:55 am
Yesterday we ate lunch on our picnic blanket in the side yard as we watched for meteors- Andy had gotten word that 63 of them were headed straight for us. We also had to be on constant alert for aliens. This was our second picnic in two days- in December! The day before we brought out bread and the assortment of fancy jellies from a holiday gift, and he loved the Oregold peach jelly.
Andy carved and flung the bark off the old tree stump next to us, using a butter knife.
"You know what I love?" he said. "I love verbing. It's like the word 'access' used to mean a thing, and now it's something you DO."
I came home with a surprise pizza for dinner, and some peanut butter pretzel ice cream. After dinner, upstairs, Dave played guitar and Andy read books and made a complicated insect trap out of thread while our boy mouse ran around them in his exercise ball.
Andy wanted to play Clue later (the original, classic version). We played two games, and he really enjoyed all the detail, and finally understood that he was not to reveal any information to anyone (that can be so hard when you're six!). He sometimes moves his piece toward the library to "take a break and read books."
In the larger world, he does like to share the information that he can count to 100. He can also count backwards from ten, which he does a lot because it's become so easy. He looked at the analog clock the other day and said, "You know what's cool about numbers? How they relate to each other." He pointed at the one and then the two. "Like one, two. Twelve. And two, three. Twenty-three. Thirty-four. Forty-five..."
He asked how much money was in our bank account, and I told him. "Wow, that's a lot," he said. "It is a lot," I said. "But we have to pay this bill next week, which is such-and-such amount, and the following week we have to pay this bill, which is such-and-such amount, and we still have to buy food, and we'll probably spend such-and-such on that..."
"So wow," he said. "That leaves about such-and-such dollars!" And he was very close!
I love his enjoyment of numbers, because he is approaching them on his own terms. He is making friends of them in his way, because he finds them interesting- and so perhaps this is a friendship which will last.
Andy carved and flung the bark off the old tree stump next to us, using a butter knife.
"You know what I love?" he said. "I love verbing. It's like the word 'access' used to mean a thing, and now it's something you DO."
I came home with a surprise pizza for dinner, and some peanut butter pretzel ice cream. After dinner, upstairs, Dave played guitar and Andy read books and made a complicated insect trap out of thread while our boy mouse ran around them in his exercise ball.
Andy wanted to play Clue later (the original, classic version). We played two games, and he really enjoyed all the detail, and finally understood that he was not to reveal any information to anyone (that can be so hard when you're six!). He sometimes moves his piece toward the library to "take a break and read books."
In the larger world, he does like to share the information that he can count to 100. He can also count backwards from ten, which he does a lot because it's become so easy. He looked at the analog clock the other day and said, "You know what's cool about numbers? How they relate to each other." He pointed at the one and then the two. "Like one, two. Twelve. And two, three. Twenty-three. Thirty-four. Forty-five..."
He asked how much money was in our bank account, and I told him. "Wow, that's a lot," he said. "It is a lot," I said. "But we have to pay this bill next week, which is such-and-such amount, and the following week we have to pay this bill, which is such-and-such amount, and we still have to buy food, and we'll probably spend such-and-such on that..."
"So wow," he said. "That leaves about such-and-such dollars!" And he was very close!
I love his enjoyment of numbers, because he is approaching them on his own terms. He is making friends of them in his way, because he finds them interesting- and so perhaps this is a friendship which will last.