I distinctly remember doing an art project with coloured-cellophane in honour of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I was, and remain to this day, terrible at arts and crafts - my mother was a saint to display anything I created. This project raises interesting questions. Before Pinterest, how did elementary school teachers share project ideas with each other? Do elementary school teachers ever use the completed projects of the young Jonny's of the world for Pinterest fails?
The Tiny Human can't even speak or read, and I'm already sick of reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar (and several other childhood favourites) to her. This doesn't bode well, because I expect we'll be reading the same 30 books for the next 4 or 5 years. Maybe instead of regular updates I should write a bedtime story. Worked for Tolkien ...
Anyway, we're at first nap time on day one of parental leave. Kate went out for a seven kilometre run. I have a stomach ache from following The Very Hungry Caterpillar diet. If the book is to be believed, tomorrow I'll create a cocoon, and I'll emerge a beautiful butterfly. I wonder what the butterfly's diet is? I hope it's heavy on fruit, cake, pie, ice cream, cheese, meat, and candy just like the caterpillar's diet! Otherwise, I might want to remain a caterpillar. Flying nauseates me anyway.
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| A favourite here is That's Not My Monkey. |
I like your daydream of becoming a butterfly:)
ReplyDeleteInstead of reading, talk, talk about anything you do with your kid, in time you doing it. I was reading to my kid since he was 4 month old :), but it ended up with my grown son hate reading :)
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