Bits and pieces, today, that made me think.

Groceries? Above, a picture from my perch. While I was in the kitchen I saw him walking quickly and with intention down the street. The first thing I noticed: the Dos Equis at the bottom of the cart full of groceries. What I realized after I took the picture: the groceries weren’t bagged. It looks like he just raided someone’s refrigerator.

There are Fish in the Water.
Today we took C&D to Sea Center Texas. We needed out of the city.
They enjoyed the fish tanks, but David kept wondering where the water and bubbles came from. We weren’t prepared to answer that question. I mean, we were there to see the fish.
Later David wondered if Gordon, the biggest grouper you’ll probably ever see, ate bananas. Bananas?!?

Outside in the wetland exhibit we looked for bugs, butterflies, birds, and blooms. We saw some of all of those things, but what will they remember tomorrow, next week and next month? What, of these trips, really count? The sense of wildness? The sense of discovery? Or neither of those things? On the way home, they summarized their day and gave us an idea of their strongest impressions. Their recap: water, bubbles, crabs, octopus (so said Carmen, but we didn’t see any), lobsters (again, so said Carmen, but we didn’t see those, either), sharks, big fish, tractor with a scoop, bees drink juice (nectar), and birds.

George Ranch.
The highlight: sitting in the dogtrot cabin, experiencing the smell and feel of rain and the sound of puddles.

Construction Paper, Constructing Ideas.

What I like most about watching C&D cut and scribble is that while they do so, they offer a window into their thoughts, their preoccupations, and their interpretations of doing as we do (well, they try to do as I do).

When I showed C&D how to cut a fringe, they enthusiastically and purposefully cut fringes everywhere possible, on every scrap of paper.


Glitter AND glue . . . how amazing!

Another project, this with roll-on paint. Carmen took advantage of the easy dot motif:
But David scribbled and said he had made a potty (left) being used by Daddy (right).

Stickers:

Cubism?

This one has a belly button. Everybody has belly buttons, so must paper people.

At the playground the next school over from ours:

Uncle John, right before he left for the Navy.

Edited 21 October.