Wednesday, January 24, 2007
-The girls played with their barbie dolls.
-Muirgen looked at a book about opposites.
-Astrid put on music and danced around the dining room.
-She unloaded then dishwasher and then loaded in the dirty dishes.
-We read (and then talked about) an article about a girl with Down Syndrome in Astrid's National Geographic magazine.
-Astrid did a bunch of the activities in the magazine.
-We made a "lava lamp" (minus the lamp part) using coloured water, oil and salt. We discussed why it worked the way it did.
-The girls decorated our old fridge with washable markers. One side was abstract art, the front had two princesses on their way to a wedding and the other side had a bad guy flying a butterfly kite. I'll post pictures of the other two sides in another post, as I can only seem to add five pictures per post.
-Astrid sat and watched me crochet for quite a long time.
-Astrid and I had a very long talk at bedtime which started off with Astrid wondering why God made us with brains that can forget things (she forgot that she had planned to play outside this afternoon once she got absorbed in her fridge art and was quite upset about this at bedtime). This led into talking about heaven, weather or not we'll be able to see God and talk to him, weather we'll be able to move around in heaven since we'll be dead when we get there, what happens to our bodies once they die, weather we can peel off our skin like we can peel off a vegetable's skin... We then somehow got on the topic of pregnancy, conception and birth...
-Muirgen looked at a book about opposites.
-Astrid put on music and danced around the dining room.
-She unloaded then dishwasher and then loaded in the dirty dishes.
-We read (and then talked about) an article about a girl with Down Syndrome in Astrid's National Geographic magazine.
-Astrid did a bunch of the activities in the magazine.
-We made a "lava lamp" (minus the lamp part) using coloured water, oil and salt. We discussed why it worked the way it did.
-The girls decorated our old fridge with washable markers. One side was abstract art, the front had two princesses on their way to a wedding and the other side had a bad guy flying a butterfly kite. I'll post pictures of the other two sides in another post, as I can only seem to add five pictures per post.
-Astrid sat and watched me crochet for quite a long time.
-Astrid and I had a very long talk at bedtime which started off with Astrid wondering why God made us with brains that can forget things (she forgot that she had planned to play outside this afternoon once she got absorbed in her fridge art and was quite upset about this at bedtime). This led into talking about heaven, weather or not we'll be able to see God and talk to him, weather we'll be able to move around in heaven since we'll be dead when we get there, what happens to our bodies once they die, weather we can peel off our skin like we can peel off a vegetable's skin... We then somehow got on the topic of pregnancy, conception and birth...
posted by Rachel at 9:02 AM
3 Comments:
That's a beautiful picture of Astrid colouring on the fridge.
Is Astrid usually left-handed?
No, she's not. If you look at the first two pictures, you'll see she's using her right hand. I didn't even notice the left-handedness in the fridge picture til you pointed it out. When I took that picture she was pretending to be an abstract artist painting with a paint brush (notice how she's holding the marker). Perhaps it just felt right to do this with her left hand. Who knows?
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