goes bop bop bopping along. We're just bopping along, more like pinballs than robins these days, but our lives will settle down. I'm looking forward to a long leisurely summer with NO SCHEDULE. I was tantalized by a brochure from a local art school offering (expensive) art classes for 4-5 year olds, so I decided to check some drawing books out from the library. I found one that I think could teach ME to draw, which is saying alot. The artist's name is Lee Ames and he wrote the Draw 50 series of books. These are great instructional manuals that break each image into smaller parts, beginning with a basic circle. I can do that. It might not look exactly like the book when I'm done, but I think we'll both have fun trying. I'm also trying to work up the enthusiasm to make papier mache creations. I know it will be fun working with it, but my inner clean freak is shrieking at the very idea of the mess. Perhaps we can do it all outside??? We'll see...
Today I forced her to listen to opera while we played all of her favorite games. This was merely to appease those nasty little voices implying that I don't do anything educational anymore, since I stopped forcing the reading lessons. She took it like a pro, especially when I sang along. Nothing funnier.
We took her on the greenway tonight to ride her bike while DH and I struggled to keep up. She stopped to examine a wooly caterpillar; I was so grateful for the brief respite. She also found some wild strawberries, which she carried home to feed our soon-to-be butterflies that we are growing from Insect Lore. I hope the berries last. The caterpillars look pretty cozy in their cocoons.
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