call her green, for the children who’ve made her

Archive for June, 2012

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Awesome things Hanna has done this afternoon: 1. Picked and eaten her very own raspberries 2. Had a total rocking out moment in her police car to “Baa Baa Black Sheep” 3. As we were walking home from daycare, she stopped in front of every garden to smell the flowers

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Hanna has books that she likes to read, and books that she likes me to read to her. Which is not to say that she knows how to read already, not by a long shot! She still doesn’t speak English yet, more like an English-based pidgin, so reading is definitely a long way off. But [...]

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Hanna just picked out for her storytime the 2012 Drinking Water Quality Report. She liked the page with the map of the watershed on it best, although the baby holding a cup was a close second. In other adorable news, she heard Ryan opening the back door for Angus, so she asked, “Kitty?” I told [...]

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Apparently I use the word ‘so’ a lot. At least, according to Hanna’s imitations of my phone calls I do. Her long green duplo block is her pretend phone, and I think she chose that block in particular because my phone is also green. She says ‘hello’ the way I do, and inflects ‘so’ the [...]