by Julie | Dec 23, 2008
Dear Santa, Please don’t let my son ask for something completely random that I’ve never heard of, three days before Christmas. Thank you, Julie I mean, seriously? A dinosaur makeup kit? What is that? I don’t know if this is a combination of his...
by Julie | Dec 19, 2008
It has become clear to me that Henry is conducting a large-scale art distribution project. Or maybe it’s some sort of performance art. He spends a lot of time making art and taping it to the walls (or hanging it in trees) but last night he kicked it up a notch....
by Julie | Dec 9, 2008
We got our first snow on Sunday. Henry continued his habit of speaking like a British kid from 1906 by looking out the window in the morning and shouting, “Hooray! Oh, hooray! Eli! Eli! Oh, it has snowed!” (Eli, later, continued his habit of speaking like...
by Julie | Dec 5, 2008
Henry had homework over Thanksgiving vacation: to decorate a large felt gingerbread man any way that he saw fit. (Because as you know it’s the start of the gingerbread man unit — have you all sent in your postcards?) He drew a very detailed bakery...
by Julie | Nov 27, 2008
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Eat and be thankful! I’ll leave you with this kindergarten oddity. It was in Henry’s backpack. His only explanation was to state the obvious: “It’s a turkey, and it says, ‘I survived!'” Was it part of...
by Julie | Nov 26, 2008
Such a classic five-year-old view: Henry’s the one on the left, the one who is so huge that he is busting out of the box. Dave, who is 6’3″, is on the right. I’m the with long hair and the big nose in the middle. Eli is the short one next to...
