She is so cute with this gap. I immediately showed her how she can fire bathwater through it. :)
With Hallowe'en a mere week away, a trip to the patch was necessary. They sought out the biggest and wierdest-shaped ones, and now our front steps look like the bargain bin rejects of Martha Stewart.
Hannah is back to spelling stuff at mealtime on the magnet board behind the table.
VNL is vanilla, and OLVR is Oliver. Indeed it is honey!
As if things were not going crazy with the computer scene already, the kids found kIt's old gameboy in the boxes of crap we were cleaning out of the basement. Now it's Super Mario brothers all day. I'm still leaving them on their own about it, but it ain't gonna last.
We've talked alot about our immune systems this week. I've been reading a lot about the swine flu and listening to the news on CBC about it, and of course they're curous. So we revisited what we know, about how our immune system is a huge group of knights wholl fight germs for us. But if we eat sugar we make our knights sick so they can't fight (hence why we avoid juice and other things that give us unnecessary sugars) and then we risk getting sick. I added the new info of how we have different levels of defense, just like in a castle. Castles have moats, drawbridges, etc. And we have our skin, our spit and snot, then our stomachs and digestive systems, and finally our blood. How germs seek to get into us and how they can do this (mouth/eyes/nose) and how we have knights right at that level (spit/snot)and so on through the layers of the immune system. And so washing our hands, not touching our faces/picking our noses, can help keep the germs away. We talked about the supplements we take and how each one helps the knights in a different way. We talked about seasonal flu vs. swine flu, and how I see the data and misinformation proliferating in the media. About the boy who died this week in Ontario, and how sad that is. they really listened, and incorporated that little bit more informaton into what they already know about how their bodies work.
Another big chat this week was spawned from them noticing how already stores and ads are all about Christmas. I told them how some people depend on things outside of themselves to feel happy. And so for those people, how they look, how much stuff they own and the act of buying more stuff brings them hapiness. That the holiday dinner must be perfect and they must get lots of gifts and give just the right gifts and have all the right decoratons and music and blah blah blah. Whereas other people depend on what is inside themselves for hapiness, and what is inside those around them. So when all the hype of the holidays comes, they do not get caught up, and when it is all over, they do not feel empty and sad. That it is not about what gifts you give and get, or what you wear, or how fancy or not your dinner is. It is about being with fun people, having fun times and sharing the good feelings with others. This is a concept they really get I think. How great if they can start life with this perspective, not struggle with all the must-haves crap that our culture lives on.
Happy Hauntings!
C
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