The girl's family has a foster child who is about Goose's age and the two of them had a blast. However, Goose did exhibit some disconcerting behavior. He continually crawled after Little Ricky and attempted to swipe his pacifier. The hilarious thing about this is that I tried to get Goose to take a pacifier for the first few months of his life (especially in the car) and he wouldn't have anything to do with it. And now he's become a binkie thief. Goose also bullied Little Ricky in other ways, including trying to knock him down (see photo below).
Shortly thereafter Goose got really nervous about there being another baby around and started being a mama's boy ... "kissing" me and giving lots of good hugs -- dee-lish-uss.
(yes I know I need to tweeze my eyebrows)
That was about the extent of yesterday's happenings other than me trying to get caught up on my work. At the end of this posting, I have pasted one of my student's how-to paragraphs which explains how to make a PBJ sandwich in excruciating detail.
Today we went to Walgreens and a bevy of little old ladies descended upon us in the shampoo aisle, oohing and ahhing over his two bottom teeth (and a top one is coming through now too!). I just stood there beaming while Goose put on his smiling matinee. Then he turned red in the face, grunted, and pooped the motherlode right there in the shopping cart. Thank goodness we're back to using the brand-name diapers or we may have had to hose down the cart.
B is working late tonight but spent the morning finishing up the coop. The chickens will be arriving on Monday. Look out.
Well, it's late and I should probably do my yoga and get to bed. Love to you all!
p.s. Here's the student's (7th grade) paragraph (I know it's a little long, but give it time because my favorite part is near the end in bold):
How to make a toasted peanut butter and jelly sandwich
First, you must go to the fridge, and open it. Next, you must find a loaf of
bread and bring it to the counter. Next, you have to untwist the wire that keeps the
bread-bag closed, and place it on the table. After that, you must carefully take two slices out of the bag, making sure that you do not squish any of the remaining slices in the bag. Then you put the two slices in the toaster oven. Make sure that you put the slices approximately in the center so that they will toast better. Next turn the dial at the bottom of the toaster-oven to select how well toasted you want your two slices of bread to be, I my self like my bread toasted at a medium setting. After you choose your setting, you close the door of the toaster-oven, making sure that you do not slam the door. Then, you press start and let the two pieces of bread toast. While they are toasting, tie the wire around your loaf of bread and place it back into the refrigerator. Also, get peanut butter, jelly, and a spreading knife, and place them on the same counter as the toaster oven is on. You should also get out a plate so that you could place the two slices on them after they are done toasting. After the toaster oven is done toasting, open the door of the oven and take out the two slices of bread. While you are taking out the bread, make sure
that you do not touch any metal near or on the oven, because if you do, you will be
burned. I suggest wearing some sort of layered gloves to do this. After you get the two slices of bread out of the toaster oven, place them on the plate. Then, unscrew the top of the peanut butter jar, and scoop out a large amount of peanut butter with your knife. Then place the knife covered with peanut butter on one slice of bread, and spread the peanut butter, so that it covers the total area of the bread. After you are done with that rescrew the top of the peanut butter jar. Next, unscrew the top of the jelly jar. Again, place your knife in the jar and scoop out a hearty amount of jelly. Then place the jelly on your bread and spread it over the entire area of the single slice of bread. After you have done that, place the dirty knife in the sink so that someone could wash it. After that, you must rescrew the top of the jelly jar. Finally, you put one slice of bread on top of the other. You have now made a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Enjoy!
DEE-LISH-USS!
1 comment:
After five minutes of reading and re-reading...I finally found a glitch in genius-child's instructions!!
When you spread the jelly on "the bread," should you spread it on the same piece of bread that has peanut butter already on it, or should you spread it on the clean piece of bread???? Huh???? And if your knife has peanut butter all over it, are you going to stick it like that into the jelly jar, friend?? No, I don't think so.
Clearly, this kid has never actually MADE a pb and j by himself.
And p.s., Mother Goose, what has happened to your child? When did he get so gosh-darn adorable?? What a beaut.
Thanks for sharing. I'm eagerly anticipating the next post...
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