An Awesome Book
While reading An Awesome Book (a book from Jorge about dreaming big): not a million quiet dreams a million dreams that roar a million dreams so loud they scream so loud they scream and shout so super...
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Oma Peggy arrived today, and brought a wooden US sates puzzle for Riley with her. Riley is a big fan of puzzles and wanted to do it right away. They were working on it together when Riley noticed the...
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Yesterday morning I heard the awful news that our beloved Massachusetts senator Teddy Kennedy had died. Sage and Riley were upstairs getting ready, so I went to tell him the news. We talked about it...
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This evening I was trying to get Riley to go upstairs with me and get ready for bed… Among other things I said “Vamos!” to which Riley replied, “mommy, why do you say vamos instead of vamanos??”...
View ArticleMayflower
Apparently Riley has been learning about Thanksgiving at the daycare. The other day she came home with a little replica of the Mayflower, and today she had a story about what it is… “The Mayflower is a...
View ArticleClouds
“Do you know why I like clouds?” “Why?” “Because clouds make rain and rain makes rainbows.”
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This evening I was reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to Riley before bed and had the following exchange… Elise: (reading) “‘And when Lucy was tired of eating, the Faun began to talk. He had...
View ArticleFalling asleep
Riley was taking a while to fall asleep tonight. Among the things she said: How come Charlie has a loose tooth and I don’t and she’s younger than I am? How long before a new tooth comes in? (Uh… maybe...
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