We finally got rain! To people who live in drought areas, we rejoice over the smallest of little drops and do weird things like have rain gauges, go out to watch the rain and sit or dance in it, which is what we did. Well, one night some of us from the neighborhood sat in the rain. Another day, Ivan and I danced in it and tried to catch it in our mouths (snowflakes are easier and much more rewarding).
Since it was cooler, I got to put Dominique in her first pair of jean overalls! I love jeans and there is something so incredibly cool about seeing your kids in jeans. Ivan and Dominique are both so cute in regular jeans, jean shorts, jean jackets, jean ballcaps. I don't know what it is about the jean material that is so appealing and really quite versatile. It goes with every color and has boasted many fads: cut offs, acid wash, low rise, wranglers, levis, black, blue, pink (yikes!)...
It looked to me like Ivan was reading to Dominique. I'll post the video in a future post. Did I tell you how (being the oldest sibling) I had to teach my sister everything I learnt at school since she wanted to know what I did all day and was desperate to go as well. Did I explain how she got straight As while I struggled for my Ds and Cs? No hard feelings, but I think I should get a little credit for her As! Apparently, history does repeat itself.
Ivan's hammer didn't come with nails (maybe they are a hazard to young children). What would this mom know, I gave him real ones (and hammered them in, so that in principle he couldn't get them out, although somehow he did!) So much for me disproving all those toy testers who omited the nails on purpose!
We finally got rain! To people who live in drought areas, we rejoice over the smallest of little drops and do weird things like have rain gauges, go out to watch the rain and sit or dance in it, which is what we did. Well, one night some of us from the neighborhood sat in the rain. Another day, Ivan and I danced in it and tried to catch it in our mouths (snowflakes are easier and much more rewarding).
Since it was cooler, I got to put Dominique in her first pair of jean overalls! I love jeans and there is something so incredibly cool about seeing your kids in jeans. Ivan and Dominique are both so cute in regular jeans, jean shorts, jean jackets, jean ballcaps. I don't know what it is about the jean material that is so appealing and really quite versatile. It goes with every color and has boasted many fads: cut offs, acid wash, low rise, wranglers, levis, black, blue, pink (yikes!)... 
It looked to me like Ivan was reading to Dominique. I'll post the video in a future post. Did I tell you how (being the oldest sibling) I had to teach my sister everything I learnt at school since she wanted to know what I did all day and was desperate to go as well. Did I explain how she got straight As while I struggled for my Ds and Cs? No hard feelings, but I think I should get a little credit for her As! Apparently, history does repeat itself.
Ivan's hammer didn't come with nails (maybe they are a hazard to young children). What would this mom know, I gave him real ones (and hammered them in, so that in principle he couldn't get them out, although somehow he did!) So much for me disproving all those toy testers who omited the nails on purpose!
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Well, my brother is older than me and he didn't really teach me what he learned in school.
Ivan is a smat boy, he figures things out very quick. No surprise to me that he got out the nails. *hihi* As long as he doesn't swallow them...
My brothers didn't teach me a thing to get me ready for school. Maybe I'd better go complain to Andrew M at least he would understand. Andrew B I think is agreeing with you!
I don't ever remember you getting C's and D's....but then again I was getting F's, so maybe we shouldn't rely on my memory! You always had better grades than me, that's for sure!!!! And with grades like mine, my parents didn't want me teaching my sister anything!!!
Ivan looks so serious and grown up in the picture of him reading to his little sis.
Is he really reading French? The title seems to be in French to me.
Such a smart multilingual boy!!!!!
Netts' ...so complimentary, Kim has an easy forgetter about my bad academia too. I did very badly through elementary school. But then I discovered something. My first report card in 9th grade was in the Cs. The second was too, but my overall grade point average had jumped up 5 points or something like that. I figured if I improved a little each semester, like 1% mark per report card, by the time I reached 12th grade I'd be a decent student. That was my system and it worked! Just a bit at a time.
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