Sunday, August 27, 2006
caterpillar studies 101
D'Arcy's dad came to pick him up today, and as they were leaving they noticed this weird caterpillar in the front yard (I hesitate to refer to it as 'the lawn'). It was clearly digging a hole, it would go headfirst into the hole, and then bring a mouthful of dirt up and dump it out, then it was moving the dirt around to make more room for more dirt. Fascinating.
The move to the farm went fairly well, though D'Arcy initally didn't want to go, when I picked him up yesterday, of course, he didn't want to leave. Then today (it's been a weird weekend) he didn't want to go back to his dad's. So there's some level of anxiety there. The beloved said that they had had a conversation where D started crying about not wanting to leave his dad's old house (which is where he was born) but that it passed fairly fast. Hard to tell really. I guess as long as we give him lots of loving support he'll get through it all.
The reason it was a weird weekend is that it's my birthday soon, and we'd organised to celebrate it with my family last night, and then D's dad decided that this was the weekend to move, and Friday was the first night that the kids would spend at the farm. So we swapped Friday for Saturday night, which led to more changing than usual for the poor lad. Still I think he's up to it. He gave me 'uno' which we've been playing most of the day. D'Arcy is the (almost) undefeated 'uno' champion of the household. He won 5 of the 6 games we played, and I won 1. The beloved won none, though he neartly did, until I poked him and said "don't do that". He graciously took another card instead, which gave D a big confidence boost, and gave him something to boast about to his dad when he arrived to get him. He's a good sort really, my boy. We also got 'uno' to give to Mimi, whose party he's going to next weekend. Busy social scene.
The move to the farm went fairly well, though D'Arcy initally didn't want to go, when I picked him up yesterday, of course, he didn't want to leave. Then today (it's been a weird weekend) he didn't want to go back to his dad's. So there's some level of anxiety there. The beloved said that they had had a conversation where D started crying about not wanting to leave his dad's old house (which is where he was born) but that it passed fairly fast. Hard to tell really. I guess as long as we give him lots of loving support he'll get through it all.
The reason it was a weird weekend is that it's my birthday soon, and we'd organised to celebrate it with my family last night, and then D's dad decided that this was the weekend to move, and Friday was the first night that the kids would spend at the farm. So we swapped Friday for Saturday night, which led to more changing than usual for the poor lad. Still I think he's up to it. He gave me 'uno' which we've been playing most of the day. D'Arcy is the (almost) undefeated 'uno' champion of the household. He won 5 of the 6 games we played, and I won 1. The beloved won none, though he neartly did, until I poked him and said "don't do that". He graciously took another card instead, which gave D a big confidence boost, and gave him something to boast about to his dad when he arrived to get him. He's a good sort really, my boy. We also got 'uno' to give to Mimi, whose party he's going to next weekend. Busy social scene.
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