This has been a very busy and rainy week, and Ben and I haven't been as focused on taking pictures. But here are some highlights.
We were dazzled by different colored threads at the fabric store. Ben is really into rainbows and rainbow order, so these were very satisfying to him. We were at the store helping Danny get paint and fabric for the show he directed this week (hence our very busy week).
The trees of the week were Japanese Maples and the Weeping Beech we saw at Old Westbury Gardens. The Weeping Beech was giant and magnificent, and we were both fascinated and unsettled about the many carvings in the trunk.
And of course, chocolate ice cream, which Ben has declared his favorite food on earth. I have about 15 photos of him eating this bowl of ice cream. He wanted to preserve each bite before it was gone. That's just the kind of kid he is.
Not pictured here are the gazillion math problems he's been talking about and wanting to solve. Now that he's an expert reader, he's all about math and numbers. I don't know how, but we've moved into the territory of negative numbers and addition with carrying. Today we were in the waiting room of a doctor's office. He was counting crayons in a box (and probably making sure they were in rainbow order) when he said to me: "8 minus 16 is negative 8, right?" I still don't know how ordering a box of crayons got him there, but OK. Later today he was measuring each strand of spaghetti with a ruler before eating it.
Each day I wonder more what exactly will happen to this child once he goes to school. He hasn't even finished nursery school!
I'm working on several different writing projects at once, some poems, a book review, and some little essays about breastfeeding (not sure exactly what they are and what will happen with them).
Life is good. We're all looking forward to Danny's schedule becoming less busy. And there's so much to look forward to this summer, including a poetry reading I'm doing in Martha's Vineyard, where I lived when I was very young, and where the poems in my chapbook take place.
2 comments:
I think it's safe to say he can probably skip kindergarten.
I don't think they do that anymore. Also, he's such a peanut and isn't any more emotionally mature than his peers. I'm not sure it would be a good idea.
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