Entries from May 2007

May 16, 2007

Now That’s Just Cheesy~

Andra was making me a sandwich.  Lorna, in her great desire to help and be a ‘big girl’ brought me one first.  Two slices of sourdough bread and about eight or more slices of provolone cheese.  (That cheese was bout 3/4 of an inch THICK)
How thoughtful.

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May 15, 2007

Toddlers Reforming Words and Conjugating Verbs

I blogged about Jenna’s success in Grammar but today I remembered something that should have told me she’d be a grammatical fiend!
Picture a child with a ten-pound-diaper.  (Strains of Ten Pound Hammer waft through the room)  Mom calls child (Jenna) over and says, “Are you soggy?”  Repeat a dozens of times a week for the [...]

May 14, 2007

Sweet Sixteen!

Wow!  Has it been SIXTEEN YEARS?  Time flies and all that cliched stuff.  I remember May 13, 1991 very clearly.  Delynn and I were talking on the phone about what would happen if I went into labor in the middle of the night.  Up until that point I hadn’t thought about nighttime and what kind [...]

May 13, 2007

Madam Gramaaaaarian!

Jenna has absolutely astounded me with her grasp of Grammar.  With no prior discussion of anything remotely resembling a noun, verb, or preposition, I started her in a seventh grade textbook, Easy Grammar.
The first thing Easy Grammar does is teaches the student all common prepositions (just over 50) and has them memorize these.  Once memorized, [...]

May 2, 2007

Semantics ala Lorna~

Overheard~
Kevin: “Lorna, are you messy?”
Lorna:  “No.  (uber sweet voice)  “I stink.”