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Tag: kids
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Happy Kid
Today we had a chat with Tyler’s teacher and she reports that he is a good listener with improving motor skills (he’s doing better at coloring between the lines) and is “exuberant, one of the happiest kids in the class.” He is ready for Kindergarten next year.
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Solar System
I taught Tyler a little bit about the solar system and I could tell he was taking it in and trying to apply it to the world around him. A few days later, when I told him that I’m going on a long plane ride for a business trip (I’m in San Francisco for a few days) he asked, “Which planet are you going to?”
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Bunk Bed
We built up a bunk bed for Tyler and Julia this weekend and have moved them into their own room. They’re ready for it and couldn’t wait to hit the sack tonight. Tyler’s up top and Julia is tucked in below.
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Snow
Tyler’s all clued into this Christmas thing. We passed a Santa on the street the other day, the local real estate agent all decked out with a sleigh and posing for pictures with kids. I asked Tyler if he wanted to have a chat with Santa and he said, “Nah, that’s not the real Santa. That’s just some guy dressed up as Santa.”
Julia’s really starting to talk now and can put together simple sentences like, “Here it is!” and “What is this?” She loves to help out around the house and even brought me a beer from the kitchen.
I gave Tyler a glimpse of Izumi’s Christmas present and Tyler was not impressed. After seeing a diamond commercial on television he let out to Izumi that he had seen what I’m giving her and that I really should have gotten the diamond necklace instead!
Tyler is way into NASCAR racing these days and I’m planning on taking him down to see one of the Busch series races in Virginia with Uncle Dave when it gets warm. Of course Tyler was excited when I told him of the plans but he was disheartened to hear that we were only going to watch the races – he was hoping we’d be in the race!
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Important Lesson
Tyler learned an important lesson today. He came up to me over the weekend all excited because he had a new lego car that he wanted to show me. It didn’t look familiar and I asked him where he got the car. When he said he got it from school and I asked him if he asked anyone if he could “borrow” it he realized that he had done something wrong.
Sensing a need to nip the “sticky fingers” tendency in the bud, fast, I told him that it was not right to do this and that he should take the toy back on Monday and immediately apologize to the teacher. Just to make sure everything would go smoothly, I called his teacher Sunday night to say that Tyler would be talking with her.
Apparently this type of thing happens quite often so everything went off without a hitch today and Tyler seems to have taken his lesson to heart. Notch another life lesson in the tree of life and wonder what path he may have strayed down if we didn’t have our little talk.
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Tyler writes his name
Tyler informed us today that he was ready to write his name and he proudly produced this sample for the website.
