Monday, November 6, 2006
(Oops! I've been neglecting my posts here lately. I've never been very good at things I need to do every single day. Let's see if I can get back on track).
-Drove Jason to work. Picked up some socks for the girls (which they were both in need of) at Zellers and then did our grocery shopping. Astrid wrote out her list in the car as we drove Jase to work. It included broccoli, tomatoes, beans and milk.
-Went to the midwives'. In my MW's office is a basket of stuff for kids to play with. It contains a blood pressure cuff, a stethoscope, latex gloves, a pinnard, a tape measure and a few other things. The girls pretended Muirgen was pregnant and Astrid examined her as the MW was examining me. She took very accurate measurements of Muirgen's belly, which was quite enlarged due to the "baby" stuffed up under her shirt.
-Muirgen built trains out of blocks and played with her little cars and trucks.
-On Nov. 4, 1922, archaeologists uncovered the tomb of King Tut in Egypt. Astrid and I read about King Tut and his tomb in our children's encyclopedia and looked for Egypt on the map. On the internet, we looked at photographs of things uncovered in the tomb and pictures taken during the excavation. We found a site that has a virtual tour of the tomb, which Astrid LOVED. She spent a long time looking at the different rooms that made up the tomb. When we picked up Jason from work, she told him all about it.
-Read two chapters of 'Trumpet of the Swan'. Had a long conversation about many of the things we've read in the book. She was particularly interested in why someone would clip a bird's wings, how this prevents them from flying etc. We talked about why people keep animals in captivity and the benefits/risks of captivity vs. freedom for animals as well as for ourselves, imagining what it would be like to be confined to our own property for the rest of our lives.
-Drove Jason to work. Picked up some socks for the girls (which they were both in need of) at Zellers and then did our grocery shopping. Astrid wrote out her list in the car as we drove Jase to work. It included broccoli, tomatoes, beans and milk.
-Went to the midwives'. In my MW's office is a basket of stuff for kids to play with. It contains a blood pressure cuff, a stethoscope, latex gloves, a pinnard, a tape measure and a few other things. The girls pretended Muirgen was pregnant and Astrid examined her as the MW was examining me. She took very accurate measurements of Muirgen's belly, which was quite enlarged due to the "baby" stuffed up under her shirt.
-Muirgen built trains out of blocks and played with her little cars and trucks.
-On Nov. 4, 1922, archaeologists uncovered the tomb of King Tut in Egypt. Astrid and I read about King Tut and his tomb in our children's encyclopedia and looked for Egypt on the map. On the internet, we looked at photographs of things uncovered in the tomb and pictures taken during the excavation. We found a site that has a virtual tour of the tomb, which Astrid LOVED. She spent a long time looking at the different rooms that made up the tomb. When we picked up Jason from work, she told him all about it.
-Read two chapters of 'Trumpet of the Swan'. Had a long conversation about many of the things we've read in the book. She was particularly interested in why someone would clip a bird's wings, how this prevents them from flying etc. We talked about why people keep animals in captivity and the benefits/risks of captivity vs. freedom for animals as well as for ourselves, imagining what it would be like to be confined to our own property for the rest of our lives.
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