....and its going to be 42 degrees today with a 40% chance of snow showers. Bee wants to know if she can build a frosty. Lets see if any of the snow sticks. probably not at 42.
Its back to the old grind today. school and work. The semester ends here last week of april. But who is counting? We will post some fun pictures from Christmas and New Years on here sometime today, hopefully!
OK, with no offense to koomp and marky... just read a funny joke:
A veterinarian and a taxidermist went into business together. Their slogan: "Either way, you get your pet back."
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Monday, January 01, 2007
Happy New Year!
Gotta love living in a student neighborhood. You know its been quiet all break, actually too quiet if you want our opinion. place felt kind of dead. Not last night! The students came out of the woodworks, or out of hibernation, out of something, because they were here. They rang in the new year on our street a few hours late, however, at 2am. That is when the bars close. Its nice to know they are back!
Yesterday the girls watched Dora and at the beginning of the episode, Boots fell down, scraped his knee and started to cry. And, was Frankie ever worried about Boots! She kept telling us, Boots is crying! Boots is crying! Dora got Boots a bandaid and he was happy after that, but Frankie was profoundly effected. Periodically throughout the day she would get a super concerned look on her face, and say Boots is crying! She continued to be so worried for him. She loves her Boots the Monkey.
Bee did a sort of a grown up kid puzzle yesterday, and really amazed us. Its a puzzle that has regular puzzle pieces and you have to figure it out by matching up colors and patterns. Last summer we bought her the puzzle at the bronx zoo right before we moved. its of an elephant standing partly in a puddle of water and also in some grass. SHe liked the puzzle last year but needed lots help putting the pieces together. Yesterday, we started off by getting all of the pieces that had water on them, and then we say something like whats on this piece (water and sand), and what is on the side of the piece (alot of sand!) do you see another piece that had a lot of sand on the side that would match it? She put the whole puzzle together that way, with out any other help. I mean there was one piece that had to fit to the elephants tail, and so there was one little tiny piece of elephant hair on the next piece of the puzzle and that was the clue she used to figure out what piece went there. It was really cute to see her fit the pieces together. She looked just like an engineer figuring it out! Must run in the family!
Yesterday the girls watched Dora and at the beginning of the episode, Boots fell down, scraped his knee and started to cry. And, was Frankie ever worried about Boots! She kept telling us, Boots is crying! Boots is crying! Dora got Boots a bandaid and he was happy after that, but Frankie was profoundly effected. Periodically throughout the day she would get a super concerned look on her face, and say Boots is crying! She continued to be so worried for him. She loves her Boots the Monkey.
Bee did a sort of a grown up kid puzzle yesterday, and really amazed us. Its a puzzle that has regular puzzle pieces and you have to figure it out by matching up colors and patterns. Last summer we bought her the puzzle at the bronx zoo right before we moved. its of an elephant standing partly in a puddle of water and also in some grass. SHe liked the puzzle last year but needed lots help putting the pieces together. Yesterday, we started off by getting all of the pieces that had water on them, and then we say something like whats on this piece (water and sand), and what is on the side of the piece (alot of sand!) do you see another piece that had a lot of sand on the side that would match it? She put the whole puzzle together that way, with out any other help. I mean there was one piece that had to fit to the elephants tail, and so there was one little tiny piece of elephant hair on the next piece of the puzzle and that was the clue she used to figure out what piece went there. It was really cute to see her fit the pieces together. She looked just like an engineer figuring it out! Must run in the family!
Sunday, December 31, 2006
4 legged friends
Well its now on to koomps and marks. Both doggies are doing great, considering Koompa is 13 and Marky is 12. The girls love both dogs, and well, love to feed both dogs, so they are not lacking in that department either. Koompa is pretty much deaf, and but she still loves a good squirrel chase. To be fair it would be nice if she could chase an elderly squirrel. Marky still loves to stick her butt in your face, to show her love. So that saying, "the more things change, the more they stay the same" really is true. Right now both dogsters are sleeping. Koompa sleeps oh about 20 hours a day now, and marky about 16. marky seems to be awake more hour than koompa. these numbers are plus or minus about 6 hours. Happy new years eve! The doggies want to ring in the new year with a nice walk and some meatballs.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
The Big Sister
So yesterday we started up again sharing a few stories about frankie. Today we will share a few stories about Bee. Now what an excellent big sister she is. When the girls got up yesterday, we went in their room and Bee had gotten the Dora game out and was playing it with Frankie. She kept explaining how to play the game to Frankie, and when we asked if we could play, she said, "no thank you, Im showing frankie how to play." They probably would have played their all morning, except cream of wheats were waiting for them downstairs.
You can tell Bee is a girl of the 21st century. The other day when we were playing and looking at birds, do you know what she wanted to do? Go back to the computer to look up bird sounds in order to listen to them. She can google as good as the best of us!
She is also loves sports. Its kinda cold here (its mich-again after all!), and so she have taken up running loops around the living room furniture as fast as she can. its her little private track almost. She will do 100 loops if we let her. But when we take her running in the jog stroller she will want to get out and run, and she can run a good half mile without stopping. Well once she ran from grand river ave all the way to red cedar river without stopping and this just about a half mile.
And, she loves to be a pretty girl, and wear pink, tights, and dance. We're not sure where she got this from, but its cute just the same.
And tomorrow onto the dogs, maybe. We will say this, Marky is still our mark-a-bark!
You can tell Bee is a girl of the 21st century. The other day when we were playing and looking at birds, do you know what she wanted to do? Go back to the computer to look up bird sounds in order to listen to them. She can google as good as the best of us!
She is also loves sports. Its kinda cold here (its mich-again after all!), and so she have taken up running loops around the living room furniture as fast as she can. its her little private track almost. She will do 100 loops if we let her. But when we take her running in the jog stroller she will want to get out and run, and she can run a good half mile without stopping. Well once she ran from grand river ave all the way to red cedar river without stopping and this just about a half mile.
And, she loves to be a pretty girl, and wear pink, tights, and dance. We're not sure where she got this from, but its cute just the same.
And tomorrow onto the dogs, maybe. We will say this, Marky is still our mark-a-bark!
Friday, December 29, 2006
Getting going again
OK, we will try to post more here... not that anyone but us reads it... but at least we can keep up with stories about the girlies.
Frankie is so funny. She had surgery last week to repair her tear duct (she was born with it fully blocked). And, ever since, she has been a different kid. She is generally a happy girl, but she is just really happy now, and outgoing, and just downright funny. Maybe its a developmental milestone that just happened to coincide with her surgery, or maybe it was the surgery. Maybe we will never know. But, we do have a happy kid on our hands.
Frankie has just about all grown up. She is now saying her first short sentences. She said this morning after finishing her cream of wheat, "Frankie did it!" and put her hands over her head. Then she noticed, on her own, that Bee finished her cream of wheat too, and then screamed, Bee did it! That probably sounds sort of stupid, but it was funny this morning, and she just kept right on talking.
The other funny thing she did today was when Bee was throwing out all of the toys from the toy box so she could climb into it. She threw out a Charlie Brown stuffed doll that was about 12" high. Frankie came running over and said Calliou!! Calliou!! She thought that CB was Calliou and then carried him around all afternoon, caring for him. Changing his diaper and helping him take a nap. it was very cute.
Tomorrow we can catch up on Bee and then we can try to keep up on this blog.
By the way, Koompa does still rock. She is a good doggie, completely deaf though.
Frankie is so funny. She had surgery last week to repair her tear duct (she was born with it fully blocked). And, ever since, she has been a different kid. She is generally a happy girl, but she is just really happy now, and outgoing, and just downright funny. Maybe its a developmental milestone that just happened to coincide with her surgery, or maybe it was the surgery. Maybe we will never know. But, we do have a happy kid on our hands.
Frankie has just about all grown up. She is now saying her first short sentences. She said this morning after finishing her cream of wheat, "Frankie did it!" and put her hands over her head. Then she noticed, on her own, that Bee finished her cream of wheat too, and then screamed, Bee did it! That probably sounds sort of stupid, but it was funny this morning, and she just kept right on talking.
The other funny thing she did today was when Bee was throwing out all of the toys from the toy box so she could climb into it. She threw out a Charlie Brown stuffed doll that was about 12" high. Frankie came running over and said Calliou!! Calliou!! She thought that CB was Calliou and then carried him around all afternoon, caring for him. Changing his diaper and helping him take a nap. it was very cute.
Tomorrow we can catch up on Bee and then we can try to keep up on this blog.
By the way, Koompa does still rock. She is a good doggie, completely deaf though.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
We were going to get her a toy grocery cart,
but they were out! So...
Pro scouts can direct inquiries to bee at koompa.net.
Pro scouts can direct inquiries to bee at koompa.net.
