they are all so tall
Aug. 27th, 2009 08:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancing_crowA friend from the last house, and a decade ago, came to visit with his two kids. Aerin and Will had been friends for 3 or 4 of their five years when we moved. They almost remembered each other. The combined kids fell in with the gang next door (two of hers and two of his in this new combination) plus the spares from around the neighborhood, and played soccer and four square.
Alice requested a bike ride and back to school pants, so we combined them and rode to the mall (6 miles down the bike path) and accomplished the things she needed, and rode back. She rocked it. I am so proud.
The kids, Alice especially, say we should practice listening to them now, so when we are old and getting dim we will have the habit of paying attention. I told her that if nice things happened when we listened, like bike rides and ice cream, then it would be easy for all of us.
And then at the video store I saw another friend with his two kids that I used to see at the Y all the time. They are huge too.
Good lesson this morning on the nose cone of the rocket mare, who thinks the weight of the rein is too much contact. We got some verra nice moments, but wow, hard work.
Aerin is working hard at Bassoon. It is a new clef, new embouchure, new notes, weird fingers... she is doing well, and working hard, but after not too long both her fingers and her cheeks give out and all she can do is honk.
Alice requested a bike ride and back to school pants, so we combined them and rode to the mall (6 miles down the bike path) and accomplished the things she needed, and rode back. She rocked it. I am so proud.
The kids, Alice especially, say we should practice listening to them now, so when we are old and getting dim we will have the habit of paying attention. I told her that if nice things happened when we listened, like bike rides and ice cream, then it would be easy for all of us.
And then at the video store I saw another friend with his two kids that I used to see at the Y all the time. They are huge too.
Good lesson this morning on the nose cone of the rocket mare, who thinks the weight of the rein is too much contact. We got some verra nice moments, but wow, hard work.
Aerin is working hard at Bassoon. It is a new clef, new embouchure, new notes, weird fingers... she is doing well, and working hard, but after not too long both her fingers and her cheeks give out and all she can do is honk.
