Last night, around 10pm, the door to our bedroom opened up and in the door frame stood a very cranky looking Julia.
ME: What's up, honey?
JULIA: I can't play with my American Girl dolls EVER AGAIN!
ME: What? Why not?
JULIA: Because I can't find my EASTER BASKET.
ME: What Easter basket?
JULIA: My American Girl Easter basket.
ME: You mean an American Girl thing you got last Easter?
JULIA: No, my American Girl EASTER BASKET.
ME: What American Girl Easter basket? Do you have an American Girl Easter basket?
JULIA: I *made* one.
ME: You did? When did you make it? Today?
JULIA: A long TIME ago.
ME: Okay. Well, don't worry about that right now, just get back to bed.
JULIA: But I can't FIND it and I've been looking EVERYWHERE!
ME: When were you looking for it?
JULIA: Like, five minutes ago!
ME: Honey, you've been asleep for hours.
JULIA: (confused)
ETHAN: She's sleep-walking.
JULIA: (indignant) No, I'm NOT!
ME: Honey, let's get you back to bed. (walking her back into her room, wherein she got into bed and immediately fell asleep.)
This morning, I recounted the incident to Julia.
ME: Do you remember coming into my bedroom to tell me you couldn't find your American Girl Easter basket?
JULIA: Yes...well, I remember that I was in your room. I don't remember looking for an Easter basket.
ME: Do you even really have an American Girl Easter basket?
JULIA: (giggling) No!!
That must have been some dream she had before sleepwalking into our bedroom. She was adamant about that non-existent Easter basket that she didn't really make.
Monday, April 10, 2017
Saturday, April 8, 2017
P.E. Peek Week
Yesterday, Ethan and I got to attend Peek Week for Madeleine's P.E. class at school. The 1st graders have been doing a unit on gymnastics over the past month, and the unit ends with an individual performance by each child, with parents invited. Madeleine's routine was complete with cartwheels, stops to tuck her shirt into her pants and fix her ponytail, and lots of unique body postures:
Each child must come up with a way to get from apparatus to apparatus without walking. While many chose skipping, galloping, or hopping, Madeleine's choice was cartwheels. Apparently she decided that cartwheeling is the best way to get from here to there even outside of the P.E. room, because she decided to cartwheel herself along the sidewalk on our way home from school. Like, the whole way home. I guess cartwheeling is to Madeleine as galloping is to Julia. I wonder if Madeleine thinks of an imaginary family while she's engaged in Cartwheel Time.
Each child must come up with a way to get from apparatus to apparatus without walking. While many chose skipping, galloping, or hopping, Madeleine's choice was cartwheels. Apparently she decided that cartwheeling is the best way to get from here to there even outside of the P.E. room, because she decided to cartwheel herself along the sidewalk on our way home from school. Like, the whole way home. I guess cartwheeling is to Madeleine as galloping is to Julia. I wonder if Madeleine thinks of an imaginary family while she's engaged in Cartwheel Time.
Friday, April 7, 2017
The American Team
Julia made a catalog for American Girls: Swim Team, with 6 brand new dolls:
Readers, meet the team that made it to New Englands Countrys, which is not to be confused with Nationals:
Katie Patterson
Nora...Uh...Bejumas???
Cameron Monty
Lindsey Rowe
Emmie Nathal
Nellie Mullins
Clearly, dolls that come with glasses or braces must be in high demand, as 4 out of the 6 swimmers have such features.
This American Team of 11-12 year old girl dolls looks ready to take on the country!
Madeleine must have been inspired to make her own American Girl team because she came up with:
The Anything Proof Girls, who apparently came into being by shooting out of an erupting volcano. No biggie.
Katie Patterson
Nora...Uh...Bejumas???
Cameron Monty
Lindsey Rowe
Emmie Nathal
Nellie Mullins
Clearly, dolls that come with glasses or braces must be in high demand, as 4 out of the 6 swimmers have such features.
This American Team of 11-12 year old girl dolls looks ready to take on the country!
Madeleine must have been inspired to make her own American Girl team because she came up with:
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
A New Play
In addition to being scared by her reading of "The Cursed Child," Madeleine was clearly also inspired by it's okay form. She got to work on a new play, with the absolutely least-expected title ever:
Act 1. Scene One Mary's house kitchen
Johny: This poridge is good!
Mary: This poridge is bad. Mary gigles.
Mary: Mum, I don't realy like this poridge.
Joy turns around.
Joy (with a sih) O.K. That's O.K. I'll make you pancakes.
Jake: (jaw open) How could you not like this poridge?!
Mary: My taste buds are difrent then your's.
Well, this play is off to an interesting start, but I fail to see how this is life in the toilet. Maybe Mary's house kitchen is actually in a toilet. Or maybe they have yet to discover how to truly live the life the right way: in the toilet. We'll have to see. I have to say, though: I'm intrigued by this start. After all, it's got an exciting premise: Mary's taste buds are difrent than Jake's! Can't wait to see what happens next!
Living the life in a Toilet!
by Madeleine Rowe
Aww, yeah, that is TRULY living the life. Things don't get much better than gettin' cozy down in the toilet.
by Madeleine Rowe
Aww, yeah, that is TRULY living the life. Things don't get much better than gettin' cozy down in the toilet.
Act 1. Scene One Mary's house kitchen
Johny: This poridge is good!
Mary: This poridge is bad. Mary gigles.
Mary: Mum, I don't realy like this poridge.
Joy turns around.
Joy (with a sih) O.K. That's O.K. I'll make you pancakes.
Jake: (jaw open) How could you not like this poridge?!
Mary: My taste buds are difrent then your's.
Well, this play is off to an interesting start, but I fail to see how this is life in the toilet. Maybe Mary's house kitchen is actually in a toilet. Or maybe they have yet to discover how to truly live the life the right way: in the toilet. We'll have to see. I have to say, though: I'm intrigued by this start. After all, it's got an exciting premise: Mary's taste buds are difrent than Jake's! Can't wait to see what happens next!
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Important Interruptions
An incomplete list of the urgent things the kids have needed to ask, tell, or show Ethan and I while we were otherwise engaged:
MADELEINE: Mommy? I had a nightmare, and it started off as a Power Puff Girls episode, then it turned into a Mr. Peabody and Sherman episode, and it ended with this really really heavy pig that was on TOP of me. (silent contemplation) That was the nightmare part.
JULIA: Mommy! Can you brush my hair?
JULIA: Mommy! You didn't brush it enough! It's still tangled!
JULIA: I *can't* do a ponytail! It's coming out LUMPY! I'll NEVER be good at anything in my life!
MADELEINE: Mommy! Is Gory a name??
JULIA: Daddy! Come see how high I can raise one eyebrow!
MADELEINE: Mommy? What should I do?
JULIA: Mommy? What should I do?
MADELEINE: Mommy? I want to do a gymnastics class where I *teach* people how to do gymnastics.
MADELEINE: Mommy? Where should I do my gymnastics class? At HOME, or at school?
JULIA: Mommy! On the microwave, where it says "clock," I thought it meant a kind of FOOD called "clock," so I was like, "What's a clock??"
MADELEINE: Mommy! Look! (pointing helplessly to a smear of toothpaste on her finger as she was getting ready to brush her teeth)
JULIA: Mommy! Look! (running out of the bathroom after brushing her teeth and pointing to a lock of her hair) A Susan boing-boing curl!
MADELEINE: (from behind her closed bedroom door) Mommy, oh Mommy! I need to SHOW you something! (holding open "The Cursed Child" to show me that she had reached Part 4, beaming proudly)
MADELEINE: (from behind her closed bedroom door) Mommy! I need to TELL you something! (pointing to "The Cursed Child" and beaming proudly) I read the word "apprehensively!"
MADELEINE: (from behind her closed bedroom door) Mommy?? (pointing to "The Cursed Child") What's a "REEKIE" train??
It's kind of no wonder that I feel like I never get anything done throughout the day.
MADELEINE: Mommy? I had a nightmare, and it started off as a Power Puff Girls episode, then it turned into a Mr. Peabody and Sherman episode, and it ended with this really really heavy pig that was on TOP of me. (silent contemplation) That was the nightmare part.
JULIA: Mommy! Can you brush my hair?
JULIA: Mommy! You didn't brush it enough! It's still tangled!
JULIA: I *can't* do a ponytail! It's coming out LUMPY! I'll NEVER be good at anything in my life!
MADELEINE: Mommy! Is Gory a name??
JULIA: Daddy! Come see how high I can raise one eyebrow!
MADELEINE: Mommy? What should I do?
JULIA: Mommy? What should I do?
MADELEINE: Mommy? I want to do a gymnastics class where I *teach* people how to do gymnastics.
MADELEINE: Mommy? Where should I do my gymnastics class? At HOME, or at school?
JULIA: Mommy! On the microwave, where it says "clock," I thought it meant a kind of FOOD called "clock," so I was like, "What's a clock??"
MADELEINE: Mommy! Look! (pointing helplessly to a smear of toothpaste on her finger as she was getting ready to brush her teeth)
JULIA: Mommy! Look! (running out of the bathroom after brushing her teeth and pointing to a lock of her hair) A Susan boing-boing curl!
MADELEINE: (from behind her closed bedroom door) Mommy, oh Mommy! I need to SHOW you something! (holding open "The Cursed Child" to show me that she had reached Part 4, beaming proudly)
MADELEINE: (from behind her closed bedroom door) Mommy! I need to TELL you something! (pointing to "The Cursed Child" and beaming proudly) I read the word "apprehensively!"
MADELEINE: (from behind her closed bedroom door) Mommy?? (pointing to "The Cursed Child") What's a "REEKIE" train??
It's kind of no wonder that I feel like I never get anything done throughout the day.
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Kids Not Sleeping
Okay. The things that the kids are getting scared of and being kept up at night by is getting ever more ridiculous.
Just this evening, both girls, at various points, burst into our bedroom to air their fears and ask for a reassuring snuggle in their beds.
MADELEINE: (tentatively opening our bedroom door)
ME: Who is it?
MADELEINE: (poking her head in)
ME: What's wrong?
MADELEINE: I'm scared of the BOOK I was reading. "The Cursed Child."
ME: Honey, you don't need to be scared.
MADELEINE: But it said Harry Potter died 20 years ago.
ME: Yeah, but that's just at the end of Part 1. You have two more parts to read. Don't you think over the next two parts something will happen that changes the past and makes Harry be alive again?
MADELEINE: But it's not just that. It's that it's "Voldemort Day" too.
Madeleine: not scared of any of the seven Harry Potter books. Not scared of any of the Harry Potter movies. Neither Dementors nor Basilisks nor Death-Eaters nor giant spiders could cause her alarm, but the fact that in an early section of "The Cursed Child" Harry's son went back in time and screwed with the present is giving her pre-sleeping nightmares. Go figure.
Once she was finally settled back in her bed, we had another little visitor.
JULIA: I *can't* sleep, and I'm scared about clowns and I don't like the noise my Sleep-Mate is making!
OMG. Okay. Clowns? Are you kidding me? GO TO BED, CHILDREN!
Just this evening, both girls, at various points, burst into our bedroom to air their fears and ask for a reassuring snuggle in their beds.
MADELEINE: (tentatively opening our bedroom door)
ME: Who is it?
MADELEINE: (poking her head in)
ME: What's wrong?
MADELEINE: I'm scared of the BOOK I was reading. "The Cursed Child."
ME: Honey, you don't need to be scared.
MADELEINE: But it said Harry Potter died 20 years ago.
ME: Yeah, but that's just at the end of Part 1. You have two more parts to read. Don't you think over the next two parts something will happen that changes the past and makes Harry be alive again?
MADELEINE: But it's not just that. It's that it's "Voldemort Day" too.
Madeleine: not scared of any of the seven Harry Potter books. Not scared of any of the Harry Potter movies. Neither Dementors nor Basilisks nor Death-Eaters nor giant spiders could cause her alarm, but the fact that in an early section of "The Cursed Child" Harry's son went back in time and screwed with the present is giving her pre-sleeping nightmares. Go figure.
Once she was finally settled back in her bed, we had another little visitor.
JULIA: I *can't* sleep, and I'm scared about clowns and I don't like the noise my Sleep-Mate is making!
OMG. Okay. Clowns? Are you kidding me? GO TO BED, CHILDREN!
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Evening Movements
This evening, Madeleine decided to dance along to the dance moves of various Kidz Bop videos. Not wanting to undertake this dance challenge solo, however, she engaged various American Girl dolls as colleagues. Each doll took a turn and when the song ended, another doll took her place. Madeleine busted out all kinds of moves and even sang along when the spirit moved her. The dolls, however, were kind of useless. They just sat in their chairs not bothering to move a muscle. LAME. I mean, I know they're historical dolls and all, so maybe they're flummoxed by music that is centuries beyond their time, but still. They didn't even TRY.
Julia was not interested in Kidz Bop, but since she had energy of her own to burn, she elected to gallop in the background and think about the Mintz.
Madeleine's definitely got dance talent! Marie-Grace, however, was a snooze fest to watch. And if Endurance Galloping ever gets added to the Olympics, I think Julia might have a shoe-in to make the team.
Julia was not interested in Kidz Bop, but since she had energy of her own to burn, she elected to gallop in the background and think about the Mintz.
Madeleine's definitely got dance talent! Marie-Grace, however, was a snooze fest to watch. And if Endurance Galloping ever gets added to the Olympics, I think Julia might have a shoe-in to make the team.
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