The Magic of Boys

There is a time from age 5 to perhaps 10 that is perhaps particularly endowed with the Victorian mythology which however false it may be, tugs on the hearts of every parent just a little bit. And then we can move on to the more modern mythology of Steven Speilberg but that’s another day…

Lost Tooth

Well it's official, my baby is growing. He has lost his first tooth today. He's so excited about it. Me? not so much. It's just another reminder that he's not going to stay young forever. sniff.

WOW

Whoops, sorry for taking so long to post.

Compared to last month everything is pretty quiet. No visitors. No Christmas shopping. No wrapping either. No tree taking over the view. No fancy lights or decor. That's all gone for another year.

Sigh.

So then, what have we been doing?

We've been going to the Science center quite a lot. They have workshops for young children during the week. So i have been implementing that with Andrew's homeschooling. On the 7th, they had a work shop on Healthy Foods. Now Andrew will eat granola cereal with yogurt (i have only been trying to get him to eat that for years now), but oh well, at least now he'll eat it. Another thing to add to his VERY small list of things he'll eat. On the 8th they had a Optical Illusions workshop. On the 15th they had a Magnets workshop. On the 26th they had a Dinosaurs workshop. He really LOVED that one. He is starting to talk a lot and is very articulate in his speech. He'll talk for hrs about dinosaurs and Scooby Doo. He's actually got many of the workers there calling him by name now. They all really like him, you can really tell. He's got quite the magnetic appeal.

We've been doing more and more school work this month. He can count to 100. Printed his first sentence (by memory). I will post a picture of that. Learning how to read small sentences. He doesn't really like reading a whole lot so i think i will go slower on that and try not to push it, he'll be ready when he's ready. I don't want him to hate it. He's been learning about dinosaurs (since he likes them so much), i can't get over how much he already knows on them. He knows what a herbivore, meat eaters and omnivores are and which dinosaur eat what. And he knows almost all of the dinosaurs names. For science he is learning all about sound.

Art, he absolutely LOVES drawing. Everyday he sketches pictures of monsters and ghosts. And he's pretty good at it.

One night last week while we were lying in bed before he fell asleep he asked me, mommy, how long did it take for me to come out of my egg? I'm like what??????? Then it dawned on me that he thought he was hatched out of an egg like dinosaurs did.. LOL, too cute.

He's got his first loose tooth. And WON'T stop wiggling it. Another excitement for Andrew.

All in all, he's still the greatest kid in the universe.


Always trying to scare me:


His first sentence... I spoke the words out loud and he wrote what i was saying.


His first loose tooth.

Blog Has Been Made Private

I have decided to make this blog private. Only those i invite will be allowed to view it. Sorry if this has made it more inconvenient for you but i feel that this blog is about Andrew and i don't know if he will appreciate strangers from around the world glimpsing into his life. So for now i think i will wait until he's old enough to make that decision on his own.. It also creeps me out that there are so many people out there that i don't even know looking at his blog..

Sandra

2010

So my the time we hit the next decade Andrew will be 15yrs old. I will be 52 and Don will be 65. Yikes. That sounds so old. lol. Ewww yuck..

So today is the first day of 2010. I think we'll watch the movie 2010, how fitting.

Last night we just stayed home and had a little party, just the 3 of us.. It was good. We played games, and watched a movie.

Today we went to the ROM (royal ont museum).. It was half price today. Then we went and got Andrew's and Don's favorite fries at the chip wagon on Queen St, by Nathan Phillips Square. It was CCCCCCCCOLD out side. Brrrr. It seems like the older i get the colder it feels.. Yuck again.

Thanks for the gift (you know who you are).. You gave us a nice family day.

Anyhoo, i will post some pics from the ROM and then i'm going to watch 2010.

Happy New Years.

This is the subway stop at the museum, it's awesome.


This picture freaks me on 2 levels. One, we are looking at someone that was has been dead for over 2000 yrs and somewhat well preserved. Two, Andrew's reflexion as he looks down at him. Andrew was in front of me, that's his hand there, but his head looks like it's behind the mummies head.


A mummified cat.


An older mummified woman, she's lived about 3000 yrs ago. This is before mummification became well advanced.


I love the new addition to the ROM, they have done a fantastic job on the architect.




And then came the dinosaurs,,, I must admit, i really enjoyed seeing that exhibit.










And then Andrew bacame a paliantalist for a wee while.


And then he got knighted.


And the ROM has some of the nicest rocks and minerals i have ever seen. This was the last exhibit we went into, and by then Andrew was getting tired and cranky. I really wished i could have stayed there longer but oh well, next time i will know to go there first.








What a great start for what's going to become the best year thus far...