I recently taught a class on Creative Live with over 5000 live students. It was a fun day and Courtney (pictured above) kept it all on track. She and I have been working together for five+ years now and she is a lifesaver when it comes to everything and anything details.
As the year comes to a close, we are trying to figure out what the upcoming school year looks like. Jason, our nanny of over a year, has decided to pursue his passion of becoming a grief counselor (he has his family systems therapy degree already so this isn't too far off from what he set out to do originally). That leaves us with a 2 day gap in childcare that we are still sorting out.
Lily, our little one that looks so angelic, is hilariously obstinate right now. Often times if you give her a choice of stopping a behavior versus losing a toy or time out, she'll just look at you, and literally hand the toy back to you and cheerfully say, 'Time out!' It's like she's trying to take all the power away and show she doesn't care ... but she's THREE. How can I possibly ascribe such motives to an angelic three year old?! Other parents assure me that I'll be thrilled with this attitude once she's an adult. For now, she's lucky she's so darn cute.
Jamisen continues his love of music. He recently watched a street busker - while reading - for at least 30 minutes. We bought him the CD of the street busker, named 'Strangely' and it is SO inappropriate for a 5 year old; so very inappropriate. The CD hasn't gotten any mysterious scratches that make it wholly not playable but that may be coming.
We were so happy to have Uncle Weston visit and play with the kiddos for hours. He has such patience and genuinely loves to hang out with the kids. They love having him visit. He reads with them and gets down at their level to play all their games.
For Jamisen's birthday, Grandma and Grandpa Faiola got him an exploding tower. It's basically a set of cardboard cards that loosely fit together. There are two levers that are directly attached to a little switch/air compressor/red button. Pushing them makes too little arms come out that destabilize the tower and make the entire thing crash down. It's super fun and the towers don't take very long to build.
The towers can get super tall. They all collapse equally and for a little kid, they're basically the best lesson in gravity, physics, architecture and demolition ever.
Chris and I were so lucky to get away for a lovely Seattle dinner with some friends from his Entrepreneur Organization group. It was nice to have a few hours of adult conversation and the long ride down there and back to connect.
No comments:
Post a Comment