That is the question of the day. As a 42nd birthday present, my mom has very generously offered to watch the girls for most of the week between Christmas and New Year’s so that my husband and I can get some much needed R&R.
To Vegas or Not to Vegas?
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Chloe’s Prediction for 2025: Awesome!
I will be awesome, that’s all I have to say 🙂
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Gotta love a 9-year old with such self-confidence. There’s not much more one can say after such a bold statement. ‘Awesome’ is one of Chloe’s favorite words, especially when describing herself. Her new absolute favorite word is ‘shish-kebob.’ According to Chloe, the word ‘shish-kebob’ is about as awesome as she is. Apparently Jane from this season of “Survivor” is also awesome – she’s the oldest woman on the tribe, and one of the strongest. The reason ‘awesome’ is one of Chloe’s most frequently used adjectives is because the word ‘cool’ is “lame.” Despite the fact that her mother uses the word ‘cool’ all the time, Chloe thinks it’s a childish word and extremely uncool. To be a kid again…
Marionnette
Sophie rediscovered her Pinocchio marionnette, a gift that my brother and sister-in-law gave to her as a souvenir of their travels to Italy last year. In this clip, Pinocchio sings and tries to dance to “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.”
No Cuddle Chloe
Chloe refused to cuddle with me last night. I was devastated (ok, not quite devastated, but sorely disappointed). She was annoyed because we told her she had to be in bed by 9:30. But she didn’t want to go to bed.
Finding the Proper Balance
It’s elusive. I often wish I had a sliding door in my brain so that I could simply shut out work when I wasn’t at work. Sadly, however, I don’t have such a door in my brain. And sadly, unlike Bill Clinton, I’m horribly bad at compartmentalizing.
Sophie’s a Poet, Too!
Here’s Sophie’s first official pinkmenot.com poem:
A cat was on a mat
The mat was on a bat
The bat was on a rat
And the rat was on a mat!
– by Sophie
And now we have a sibling duet full of nonsense:
Dad is awesome
But now he’s on a trip
And when he went
He went by ship
And when he was on the ship
He saw some sharks
And to make the sharks go away
He decided to make some farts
And when he farted
He ate a juicy, juicy apple
Which he married
In the ship’s chapel
While he ate the apple
He found a worm
And then he ate the worm
Which made a squirm
– by Sophie & Chloe
Seurat and Renoir
When we were at the museum the other day, I asked the girls to choose their favorite paintings in each of the galleries. Chloe unsurprisingly chose Seurat – she had written a story based on this painting back in April for her creative writing class. She was actually giving me a forced smile in this photo, because I hadn’t yet come up with the scavenger hunt idea that savaged our day at the Met and she was still pissed off at me.
Scavenger Hunt
We had a scavenger hunt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art today. The day got off to a rocky start, when Chloe realized that I hadn’t really put together a scavenger hunt. I was supposed to have researched the museum’s collection online, but that didn’t quite work out. She started to mope, which made me mope. And yet, it’s often when I mope that the lightbulbs go off in my head.
Band-Aids
We are in great danger of not spending all the money in our flexible spending account by the end of the year. There’s a lot of money to be spent, which means that in all likelihood friends and family will see me in yet another pair of glasses on January 1, 2011.
Titanic
Tonight is movie night. Chloe and I are watching “Titanic.” She’s very excited to watch “Titanic.” She likes the cursing so far.
She laughed when Rose told her fiance that the paintings she purchased were by “some artist called Picasso.” We’re raising a very cultured 9-year old.
She also got a kick out of Jack the artist’s comment about one of his drawings, “That’s the good thing about Paris. Lots of women willing to take their clothes off.” The Frenchie in her appreciated the comment – as she remarked, the kids at the beach in France like to be naked.
I love it. Heads: Chloe is a little sophisticate. She knows Picasso! Tails: Chloe is completely naive. She is still young enough to equate sensual naked French women in drawings to naked French kids on a beach!