Michael, with his toy guitar: “This next song is called “Starlight Can Never Destroy A Death Star So I will Use My Laser.” I went to his end-of-year celebration at his preschool yesterday, which consisted mostly of him attacking me at frequent intervals with flying leaps and fierce hugs interspersed with little girls coming around…
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Preschool Hassles (a 7QT post)
Nicholas needs to go to preschool. He’s extremely precocious and determined that it’s his turn right now. He puts on Julianna’s shoes, shoulders her purse, and says, “I’m going to ‘chool now. I will see you on Wednesday.” To keep the expense and inconvenience factor low, we planned to send him to the early childhood…
Read MoreWaving Goodbye
There’s a moment every day that I love. It comes in the freshness of the new day, on the tail end of the morning rush, after rousing and diapering and brushing and eating, when we hear the bus lumber around the bend and we rush outside to meet it, Julianna a little ball of excitement,…
Read More7 Quick Takes, vol. 68: a busy week
Whew! How much can you cram into a week? 1. Over the weekend, we celebrated Julianna’s third birthday: 2. On Monday, we spent the day visiting schools. First we went to Julianna’s new school, where we met her teachers and most of the therapy staff. Julianna looked right at home, playing coy with the…
Read More7 Quick Takes Friday–TRANSITION
My apologies to anyone who tried to look at the pictures yesterday. I didn’t know they weren’t working until dinnertime. It’s 7 Quick Takes Friday, and today I’m focusing Transition—the process of moving out early intervention and into Early Childhood Special Ed. 1. Yesterday we had Julianna’s very first IEP (Individualized Education Plan) meeting. In…
Read More7 Quick Takes-vol. 66
Alex and I played glow-in-the-dark miniature golf this week. I learned that fluorescent orange + fluorescent yellow + black lighting = one massive headache. That happened to be the same day that Nicholas discovered pasta. Now, my Super Baby Food book says that children are not allowed to have tomato until one year old.…
Read MoreWFMW—Albuquerque the Turkey
Ah, the joys of preschool humor. Sometimes they don’t even know they’re being funny… For instance, the day Alex came home from preschool singing (to the tune of “Clementine”): Albuquerque is a turkey And he’s feathered and he’s fine And he wobbles and he gobbles And he’s absolutely mine. He’s the best pet that you…
Read MoreLetters to my children, part 1
9/8/09 Dear Alex, You’re crossing a milestone, little man. Last night, I couldn’t yell at you for still lying awake at 10:30. I know very well how it feels to be wound up about tomorrow morning. This morning as we left you at preschool, I wondered how long it will be before school becomes another…
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Kathleen M. Basi 