Wednesday, March 23, 2005
OK, so I've now enabled comments on this....
We put on a show for some of his toys today, which consisted of making a collage and telling the related story, taking turns to add a line each....
"Once upon a time Goldilocks was walking. Suddenly when she was walking it became night." It went on for some time with a massive thunderstorm, Goldilocks getting lost, and then returning home with the help of a "kind lady" to find that her parents had gone to the supermarket, and were perhaps even dead on the floor. What is it with the obsessing about death? It all turnd out fine in the end, they weren't dead after all. The collage Goldilocks has a suede leather head with a big square mouth drawn on, and arms and legs made of feather wool sprouting directly from the head. I love that phase of human representation.
What else is new? The ability to play simplified 20 questions. We limit it to animals, but D'Arcy can do both ends of the game, although guessing is slightly easier for him. He hasn't quite learned the with-holding of information skills necessary for being the one who has the item in his head. Most of the target animals come from 'The Lion King' (thank you Mr Disney) but he can usually guess pretty fast, even if they are outside that parameter.
I managed to take some photos today with D'Arcy's digital camera ($24.95 from some little auto shop in MN - what was it called?) but they are pretty blurry and I'm not totally sure how to do all the Flickr stuff yet...I'll get to them soon. And now, as usual, it is LATE, and I am buggered.
We put on a show for some of his toys today, which consisted of making a collage and telling the related story, taking turns to add a line each....
"Once upon a time Goldilocks was walking. Suddenly when she was walking it became night." It went on for some time with a massive thunderstorm, Goldilocks getting lost, and then returning home with the help of a "kind lady" to find that her parents had gone to the supermarket, and were perhaps even dead on the floor. What is it with the obsessing about death? It all turnd out fine in the end, they weren't dead after all. The collage Goldilocks has a suede leather head with a big square mouth drawn on, and arms and legs made of feather wool sprouting directly from the head. I love that phase of human representation.
What else is new? The ability to play simplified 20 questions. We limit it to animals, but D'Arcy can do both ends of the game, although guessing is slightly easier for him. He hasn't quite learned the with-holding of information skills necessary for being the one who has the item in his head. Most of the target animals come from 'The Lion King' (thank you Mr Disney) but he can usually guess pretty fast, even if they are outside that parameter.
I managed to take some photos today with D'Arcy's digital camera ($24.95 from some little auto shop in MN - what was it called?) but they are pretty blurry and I'm not totally sure how to do all the Flickr stuff yet...I'll get to them soon. And now, as usual, it is LATE, and I am buggered.
# posted by Mummy/Crit : 11:02 PM
