Sozlet stories

(She's here and wants me to explain that the band guy's eyes are closed, which is why his eyelashes are on the bottom.)

I like how she drew different kinds of fish around the submarine!

A note to say, I read this thread, but stay in the background.

I understand veteran kindergarten teachers start the year with a lot of regimentation and ease up as the kids get more sophisticated.

Loosening the rules is easier than making them more strict.

Still, the Sozlet will never be an "average" child.

Are those fish around the sub, or Blue Meanies? (Love the eyelash detail.)

Those are fish... she hadn't seen the movie yet. We got the movie shortly thereafter, though -- big hit!

That makes sense, Noddy, hope so.

Nice to see you, edgar!

Swallow a bubble?


Tell her to say swallowing bubbles makes her fart!!!

No, no....just kiddin' there.....

I started to tell her that because I knew she'd think it was hilarious but then suddenly realized that there was no way she'd be able to avoid repeating it at school -- or thinking about it when she's told to swallow a bubble and instead cracking up and getting detention or some such thing.

Trying to make my daughter into a juvenile delinquent, you are!


(I think I'm gonna start using "swallow a bubble" on A2K -- "Bernard, swallow a bubble.")

This could catch on.


And, with some of us, ain't hardly no difference between farting and talking anyhow.

This must be the surest way of making her learn to read.

Sozobe [stares at the screen, giggles, shakes head]: That dlowan. She just wrote in and asked me to tell you ...

Sozlet: Tell me what?

Sozobe: Well, the next time your teacher tells you to swallow a bubble ...

Sozlet: Yes???

Sozobe: Uh, nuthin, never mind, wasn't that important. [looks at screen, giggles, shakes head.]

Sozlet: You are so mean!!! [stomps with her foot, grabs her book, furiously practices reading.]

:-)

Just a quickie -- sozlet's sick, as I've gone into a bit on the "I'm not cold!" thread (though doing much better now, knock on wood). She came down with whatever it is when she was at school, and spent about 45 minutes laying down in the nurse's office, near the secretary's desk. Social creature that she is, even as she was getting steadily sicker she prompted the secretary to write to me that, "Of course, I am enjoying visiting with her!"

Sozlet in discomfort as gracious lady. You're doing a great job.

Oof, hope she's feeling better.

Get well soon, sozlet!

Just wanted to drop by and let you know I'm reading with interest...

Sozlet sounds like a doll.

Thanks, DrewDad. Your girls often remind me of sozlet at their respective ages...


Sozlet hasn't seen "Star Wars", but she knows of it in a general way. I went to a morning meeting and E.G. stayed home to watch her, so he would be there when she woke up, which is unusual. He was saying that he'd crouch over her making scary faces so when she woke up that would be the first thing she saw. She shrugged and said that would be OK, unless he was dressed up as Darth Vader's dog. Darth Vader's dog? She described him, and E.G. hazarded, "Chewbacca?" RIGHT!

She's really digging the whole 3 R's part of kindergarten. We've had magnetic letters on the refrigerator for a long time, she's always been interested in playing with them but lately she's been standing there for long stretches making various words and sounding them out. ("cat... mat... rat... hat...") She also keeps asking us to give her math problems. That's her new thing for if she's not sleepy at bedtime... "give me a HARD math problem." (Typical "hard" problems are things like 18 - 5 and 10 x 4. 2 + 2 and 5 + 5 and the like are what are dismissed as "too easy.")

Are you sure she hasn't watched 'Spaceballs' and confuses it with "Star Wars"? There is a half-dog in there.

From horribly unattended Hardwar Wars

This and that...

Latest phrase (when mad): "Chicken pox!"

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She and E.G. were talking and he called me "She who must be obeyed." She thought that was a fabulous nickname, and said that she will tell her husband to call her that when she gets married.

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I asked E.G., in front of her, whether he thought an arbor we have would be strong enough to hold a porch swing. He said no, and explained why. She then piped up with a very thorough plan for shoring up the arbor -- 2 X 4's, nailed to this, supported by that, it made a lot of sense.

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There's this new maturity/ responsibility that I'm loving. I went a bit overboard in the garden and wrenched some muscles on my side, and was complaining about it as I was trying to get comfortable to read her books at night. The next morning, first thing when she woke up she said, "How is your side?", and patted it in this sweet way. Then later that day, we were gathering stuff to go to school, I was in a bit of a rush, I had a vague idea that we were forgetting something, she said, "Oh, my library books!" and went and got them and put them in her bag. (They were due at school that day.) It's such a great feeling to have HELP with this stuff!

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We have a bunch of wood left over from the tree trimmers and we can use some of it but don't have room to store all of it. She knows that we're a bit pressed for cash and suggested that we sell it as firewood. Again very detailed... "OK, the first thing we should do is go to a store and see how much they charge for firewood. Then we should sell our firewood for a little bit less than that... we want people to buy it from us instead, but we also want to make as much money as we can, of course."

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She's been drawing up a storm, this is the only one I have scanned, will try to scan more later. This is all her, including "Boyardee" --> "Girlardee." (The green trees/ yellow sun with sunglasses boring stuff phase didn't last long, thankfully. She's back to weird stuff + drawing from life.)

I love "Girl-ar-dee!" Very clever.