I’d been occupied in my office for quite a while when I became aware of all the quietness upstairs. The house is pretty quiet when the older three are at school, but usually I can hear Patches clunking or thumping or playing some kind of a game. I went to find out what the total silence meant. I found Patches very carefully cutting up an old flyer sent home from the school. Cutting is an activity I generally try to supervise because kids often get …creative… when left alone with a pair of scissors. In this case no damage was done, so I calmly stepped forward to Patches to ask what he was doing.
“I’m cutting words.” He informed me. I saw that he had indeed carefully cut a strip of words from the page. I then noticed that he was further rendering the strip of words into individual letters. This flier was in a 12 point font and Patches was carefully rendering the entire half page into individual letters. He had already accumulated quite a little pile.
“Are those your words?” I asked pointing to the pile.
“Yeah. It’s a pile for the alphabet song.”
This kid amazes me. He’s three and a half. Where did he get that much patience and persistence?
Patience from you, persistence from Howard, would be my guess.
Patience from you, persistence from Howard, would be my guess.
Maybe there’s a finite amount of patience in each family, and he got Gleek’s share too. That would explain many things.
Maybe there’s a finite amount of patience in each family, and he got Gleek’s share too. That would explain many things.
Ab-c’def-G-jkl-m’nop-q’r-stu-v’wx-yz!
If I ever find out just what this word could mean,
I’ll be the smartest bird this world has ever seen!
–Big Bird
Ab-c’def-G-jkl-m’nop-q’r-stu-v’wx-yz!
If I ever find out just what this word could mean,
I’ll be the smartest bird this world has ever seen!
–Big Bird
I can be pretty patient and meticulous about stuff, and I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t (I can remember things from when I was four).
I can be pretty patient and meticulous about stuff, and I don’t remember a time when I wasn’t (I can remember things from when I was four).
He stole it from my three and a half year old?
He stole it from my three and a half year old?