Mosquito Bites

Papa: Hart, do you like mosquito bites?
Hart: No. But they love themselves.

Fwd: Sevi last night

Begin forwarded message:

From: rebecca@waltzing.org

Date: February 27, 2008 1:07:03 PM EST

To: Kevin Burget <kburget@wideiris.net>

Subject: Re: Sevi last night

surprised there was calm enough to talk w/ hart so hysterical.  that will get easier.  unless it gets harder first.

she's so mature in some ways.  walking home she talked about how sara was not a friend "in some respects."  that was about the fact that she's decided that jolene is her friend.  but seems comfortable w/ ella's friendship.

she did a great job of getting thoughts down on paper a) describing the store in mexico for homework, and b) writing me a letter at school yesterday.  made me think writing is getting easier for her.  hm.

Sevi last night

she always wants to talk at bedtime which is great.  confided in me that she hopes she gets to the end of the school week quickly because it's been very hard lately.  I asked what was hard and she said they were writing fairy tales, which she found really hard.  we talked about how having a wild imagination could be the fun part, and she made up some outlandish things to show she could do it, but we also talked about how getting thoughts down in writing was hard.

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A Field Guide to Rubber Bands

Sevi wanted to stop and pick up gritty rubber bands off the damp
sidewalk this morning, in order to give them to Frank Adams, who's
collecting them. I said identifying what kind they were (i.e. wild
vs. domesticated, exotic etc) was important, and for that we'd need
the Field Guide.

Dream for Candy

Had a dream in which Sevi was begging to buy candy at a store, two
kinds: Buzzies & Oyster Gods

Hart

was very clingy and schlumpy about being at Free Space this morning
after the Peace party at Sevi's school. I sat with him basically
burrowing his head into my lap prostrate on the floor while Aida read
the kids a story. Any attempts to get him to rally were met with a
"no!"... Finally Lourdes arrived and gathered him up in her arms and
started planting kisses all over him and, while not overtly
responsive, he adopted a neutral attitude, and so he was okay enough
for me to leave

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all 4 of us have head colds

Tweety Bird

Sevi noticed Tweety-bird on her socks this AM, so I said "I tawt i saw a putty-tat.  I DID, I DID see a putty-tat".  Both Sevi and Hart found that very funny, so I sought out link to a tweety bird cartoon on the internet before breakfast.

test from rebecca

well?

Sevi's independent reading

Sevi read her schoolbook for 20 or so minutes this evening on the john.  She even kept reading it while I brushed her teeth.  We said she was starting to resemble the absent-minded professor.  (She also spent 10 minutes before bedtime distractedly looking for her book baggy.  Found finally during last pee lodged in the window guard beside the toilet.

Hart wears the pants

For the first time Hart put on a pair of pants himself today, over
his diaper. It was near bedtime and he became fascinated, trying to
put another pair over that one, then heading to the chest of drawers
for more.

Hart's tantrums

Hart's got very imperious around dinnertime when things aren't going
his way. Fond of pushing things away, etc, then turning very impish
and grabbing Sevi's hair while she was finishing her homework project
(leaves and seeds glued to paper) with mama. Sally the therapist
says right at the point where you're about to go crazy they move out
of it. Rebecca said "I'm already crazy."

Sevi - All God's Critters

Took Sevi to choir today walking down the street, brisk fall day
(finally) with her sheet music in hand as she sang and read
"All God's critters got a place in the choir, some sing low and some
sing higher, some sing out loud on the telephone wire, and some just
clap their hands, or paws, or anything they got now..."

Hart says my name

After the bath tonight Hart turned to me and said "You're K***

B***". This cracked him up, so he kept repeating it..

Current Schoolgirl Game with Sevi

"Naa, naa
Doo ya doo ya
You gotta date with an American Beauty
She can do the pom pom
She can do the twist
But best of all
She can kiss kiss kiss

(widening feet with pivots on each letter
K - I - S - S"

Repeat and keep repeating to someone falls down or their butt touches
the ground.

Sevi's First Sleepover

Was last night, at Sara's, Easter Eve. Had a wonderful time.

Hart's goatee

Hart took a spill on the sidewalk yesterday and grazed his chin but good. A big scab there now that makes him look like a beatnik with goatee. Especially when downy fuzz from his sweater embedded in the wound and hardened there. Tonight at 2 Boots some tomato sauce from his ravioli got mixed up in it too--a greasy twinkle of a scab--a mixed media work in progress.

Grapes, Cranberries

which Hart repeats often, a musical mantra, recently the first thing
when he rose in his crib: "Apes, Gumburreez..."

Hart's first sentence?

"I see truck." uttered in the driveway to Litchfield Villa on the
edge of Prospect Park (from his stroller). He said it a few times,
so we think that's an affirmative -- although small possibility he
was saying "ice-cream truck"...(although it wasn't anything like an
ice-cream truck..)