Week ending January 6, 2008: This week we crammed the car seats, enough junk for an overnight, and breakfast for 10 people into the new convertible and headed to Rob and Tina’s house for a New Year’s Eve party. 2 other families brought their kids as well and the other families let their kids stay up until midnight, but no one has ever told our kids that New Year’s Eve has anything to do with midnight, so they didn’t even complain when we took them upstairs to bed and then we went back downstairs to party. It was a win-win situation because the kids love going to Rob and Tina’s and playing with the other kids, and we love having grown up time after the twins go to sleep.
After New Year's we took down the Xmas decorations and cut circles out of the cards and stapled them into ball-shaped Christmas tree ornaments out of them. This year the kids cut their own circles that I traced for them.
Later this week Chloe asked to play the rhyming game at dinner and sometimes she really seemed good at coming up with words that rhyme, and other times she’d pick “grape” to rhyme with “plate” or “orange” to rhyme with “door” (the “or” sound is at the beginning of “orange”). Then one time she really surprised us with her rhyme. I asked what rhymes with “corn” and Chloe said “forlorn”. I thought maybe it was a coincidence, just a random assembly of sounds like “zipzorn”, so I said “what does ‘forlorn’ mean?” Chloe said “sad”. I do vaguely remember that one of her books has the word “forlorn” in it, and I remember saying that it means “very sad”, but it has been so long ago I can’t even remember which book. Then later in the week we were watching a Backyardigan’s episode on DVD and they sang a song that said they were forlorn about the corn. So, maybe she’s not a prodigy for recalling that “forlorn” rhymes with “corn”, but it is still impressive that she remembers what “forlorn” means!
Later this week Chloe asked to play the rhyming game at dinner and sometimes she really seemed good at coming up with words that rhyme, and other times she’d pick “grape” to rhyme with “plate” or “orange” to rhyme with “door” (the “or” sound is at the beginning of “orange”). Then one time she really surprised us with her rhyme. I asked what rhymes with “corn” and Chloe said “forlorn”. I thought maybe it was a coincidence, just a random assembly of sounds like “zipzorn”, so I said “what does ‘forlorn’ mean?” Chloe said “sad”. I do vaguely remember that one of her books has the word “forlorn” in it, and I remember saying that it means “very sad”, but it has been so long ago I can’t even remember which book. Then later in the week we were watching a Backyardigan’s episode on DVD and they sang a song that said they were forlorn about the corn. So, maybe she’s not a prodigy for recalling that “forlorn” rhymes with “corn”, but it is still impressive that she remembers what “forlorn” means!
This week Big Daddy and Bubbe took us and the twins, Trish and her kids, and Aunt Jenny to see Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast” performed by the Children’s Theater of Annapolis. Alex and Chloe just adore Blade and Skye. Before we left for the theater, Blade was playing with Alex’s new R/C helicopter and he showed Alex how to do it and let Alex have a turn. Alex flew the helicopter by himself for the first time! Until then we’d been helping Alex by controlling the vertical while Alex controlled the horizontal direction. Anyway, at the theater Alex insisted on sitting next to Blade and Chloe next to Skye. The production was very lively, the costumes imaginative and there were plenty of songs to keep the kids engaged. Alex was coughing a lot during the show and I asked him if he wanted to leave and he said he'd rather stay. When the Beast had been stabbed by Gaston, Chloe said "I hope he's going to be ok". Alex liked it much better than the Nutcracker and Chloe wants to bring her “Belle” costume with her on our upcoming cruise.
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