Both kids continue to thrive. Joshua has had a lot of homework lately. It seems so strange to write such a sentence--He can't possibly be old enough to have spelling quizzes! He IS old enough for spelling quizzes, though, and he has learned that it is hard to be a teacher's kid. (Only teachers buy their kids workbooks for Valentine's Day...poor kid...) He is newly obsessed with computers-- It appears that he will be a gadget geek like his dad--and he is learning to surf the Web. I spent a good few minutes chuckling about his most recent adventure in cyberspace: Without asking, he sat down at a computer in his dad's lab at school and opened up Firefox. When he reached Google, he confidently typed the address we often repeat for him: nit.lego.dotkom (translation: knight.lego.com real address: castle.lego.com). He is still fascinated by castles and by Legos, you see, and this site features games, movies and coloring pages he enjoys. He is increasingly independent, trying things on his own before asking for help. While we still have some work to do on his spelling, I am proud of his efforts to venture forth on his own. And the whole episode made me laugh.
Katie is a gadget girl, too. She saw her cousin's iPod last week and has been asking for one of her own. (I don't think so!) She is feeling great, so she has been full of it lately. She is determined to grow up so fast. We have taken full advantage of Katie's functioning immune system, and she has thoroughly enjoyed our efforts to provide her with local adventures. (We never blog anymore because we are always out and about, playing in our community.) Katie loves Lake Region basketball games (she is in awe of the cheerleaders and eats her way through the school store), and she has been clamoring for a visit to the library. (The library is showing an American Girl movie tonight. Yeesh...) Both kids enjoyed a visit to the locally famous Pick and Shovel, where the girl in the pet shop allowed them to pet a ferret. Her immune system was suppressed so long, it seems, that even mundane activities like grocery shopping are really exciting. We're not sure where Katie got the social butterfly gene, but we have had a lot of fun observing from a distance as she meets and greets.
On a funny note, Katie decided that she was old enough to wear "makeup." She was upstairs in her room playing with her Leap Pad (or so I thought) while I folded laundry. When I went up to get her--we had dinner with her Nana last night--Katie looked different. She had opened up a tube of chapstick and had turned it into a kind of impromptu blush--like the old fashioned "rouge" my grandmother used to wear. She had great circles of pink chapstick smeared on her cheeks and her thighs. She was sparkly though, too, and it took me a minute to determine why. Katie apparently thought it would be a good idea to take the wand out of her lip gloss and to use the lip gloss as eye shadow. Oh, my. One funny detail/question: I don't wear makeup beyond chapstick, which I always apply to my lips, so we're not sure where Katie would have learned to apply eye shadow? One not so funny detail: Chapstick is really sticky. It was very hard to resist giggles as I washed her off. She was SO sticky and SO cute, and she still smells like vanilla. I am smiling as I type. She is always interesting, my Kate.
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