We walked to pick up our CSA share from Ledge Ends Produce in Providence today. After choosing our shares from the bin Dunedin and Griffin realized that the last stop on the line held Strawberries. Strawberries are spelled with a capitol S in our house. They are pronounced with all caps, but I thought in print, this begins to get redundant. Needless to say we HAD to stop to sample “a w’iddle bit, pwease Mommy? Griffin wants some.”
As we left the CSA pick up area, there really were enough for Daddy to sample some, but when we got home this was all that was left.
Now both the children were strapped in, but both were covered in red dripping goatees when we got home 20 minutes later. Dunedin must have been passing Griffin some up front in the stroller…
I only got one.
Archive for June 16th, 2009
little vampires
at my bedside
Currently books in our house (big thick ones with written narratives in them) seem to be getting more use as footstools allowing little hands closer to light switches, everything on the counter and the raisin jar. But I still find myself reading a lot. But now it is mostly magazines or things I can put down without having to spend much time on reintroduction. Life with little ones seems to be lived in little cubits of time. About the length of a magazine article with corresponding pictures…
This being said, these are the books I keep reaching for over and over again, determined to spark a new idea, see a new lighting technique or share with the kids. The kids favorites are at the bottom. Zoo logy by Joelle Jolivet is huge at bedtime. And I don’t just mean that, when open, both kids can hide behind its nearly two-foot-tall pages. It has all of these fantastic block prints of animals in category groupings such as “Hot”, “Horns”, “Striped”, “In the Sea”, “at night” and “underground”. We can spend good parts of an hour laying on our bed playing eye spy and discovering animals we hadn’t heard of before. Also a big hit is Wheres the Cake created and illustrated by T. T. Khing, We get lost in the many layered stories that are told entirely through pictures. There are many plot lines and characters to be followed from the beginning of the book to the end.
