This weekend with the help and direction by our fabulous brother-in-law Dave, we’re building our backyard sidewalk. Today a big honkin’ truck came by with supplies, driven by a jolly guy who seemed to enjoy his work. Too bad there weren’t any little boys around to gawk…
Our bricks are the teeny little pile on the red flatbed.
I kept wondering if there had ever been any horrible accidents with these kinds of equipment…
Peter just ran the RunTO 10K today, and his time was a very nice 45:33. Woo-hoo! I can say I’m quite the proud spouse (especially since you won’t catch ME doing one of those any time soon!)
We were also quite chuffed to learn that he ran his 10K faster than the new Doctor Who, Christopher Eccleston, who ran one a week back at around 52 minutes. Of course, Eccleston also runs marathons. That’s not in the cards for anyone in this household quite yet!
Addition: Watch a video of Peter crossing the finish line here. Enter number “625” and watch for a guy in white shorts bomb in from far left.
(These two stories were written before and after our holiday weekend at the cottage. Yes, 546 is another TV channel. At least he was impressed with the trumpeter swan and swimming as well; he’s not a total TV addict. –L)
The Cottaj
I am going to the cottaj on Friday. I am going to play in the play stashun. I am going to play Winee the Poo. I love watching the weather channel. At the cottaj the weather channel is 398. I love going cayaking with my daddy. I love wering my PFD. I like padling to the beech. i like going to the purple cayak.
Jonathan
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Kayaking
I love going to the cottage.I love going kayaking with my mom and my dad. I like wearing my PFD. I like watching 398. I love watching 546. I love building some sand casls. I chasd the trumpeter swon. I like swimming in the water. The water was cold. I said brrrrrrrrrr.
Jonathan
First in the water, by choice!
Second and third in, respectively
(I get a kick out of Jon’s spelling of “skate”. Cathy is Jon’s visual consultant, today helping him with zippers and snap buttons. – L)
I Like Storytime
I love reading the poem I Held a Lam. I like reading After the Faer. I love reading Starting to Skeight. I like reading the first line. I like reading the next page. I love reading the snake poem. I like reading Let’s Pretend.
Jonathan
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Working with CathyI worked on zipers with Cathy. I like working on snaps. I love working on Mr. Potatow head. I put the eras into the hole. I like reading with Tami after snak.
Jonathan
Recently we’ve inherited a Playstation 1 set. (It started out as a customer incentive when Peter’s dad leased a new van, travelled between Peter’s siblings until they all got newer consoles, and finally landed in our laps.) It has a pathetically small library of games, including a Winnie-the-Pooh Kindergarten game appropriate for Jon.
Do they spike these video games with crack? Jon can only use one hand, and can only manage the buttons one at a time, which is not a very effective way of moving the cursor around. But within one day of playing the game – and despite not quite having gotten the hang of it yet –Jon was hooked. He begged to play more Playstation the next day, and it has replaced his afternoon TV shows as most-favoured-thing-to-do-during-break-time (too bad, Anna Olson!)
On the upside, we now have an extremely potent punishment, should we need to use it…
But on the subject of Playstations, here’s some questions for all and sundry: Where can we get old Playstation 1 games, new or used? And does anyone know of some titles that might be good for Jon? Anything up to approximately Grade 3 level; Kindergarten level would be just dandy. Most likely educational in focus rather than arcade-style: Jon just can’t see or move fast enough for twitch games. (Unless you know of any slow-twitch ones…)
(“Flying” is getting spun around like an airplane, to the detriment of Peter’s back. Likes going to sleep? Lately that’s debatable –L)
I Love Bedtime
I like going flying at bedtime.
I like getting dizee. I read a storey with my mom. I like going pee in the bathroom. I like going back to bed. I love reading a storey with my dad. I love reading a storey with my Gramma. I like going to sleep.Jon
(Peter videotaped a T-ball game at Jon’s school. It is an absolute hoot; hopefully we’ll be able to post a video soon. The colours and names in the second story are the names of little song/chant booklets at school. The Snoezelen room has come up before, but is a big favourite of Jon’s. –L)
Fun at School
I love going to the gym. I love playing T-ball with Tamara. I hit the ball with the bat. I like going to the adventure center. I love crawling up the ramp. I like looking at the fish. I love writing some stories in the classroom with Tami.
Jon
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I LIKE SINGING BOOKSThe best book is pink. I like to sing purple. I love to sing green. I like to sing blue. I love to sing yellow. I like to sing red. Fat little witch is sung to the tune of I’m a little teapot. My ten best friends is a number chant. Jack and the sack is sung to the tune of the animal fair. I think you are making me sneeze. Achoo. That was funny.
Jon
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I Like The Snoezelen RoomI love looking at the fish in the snoezelen room. The fish go splish splash splish splash. I like watching the bubbles in the toob. Up and down go the bubbles. I love looking at the eggs. I like feeling the eggs. I love going on the waterbed. I like sitting on the swinging chair.
Jon
