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azurelunatic) wrote2003-12-01 10:37 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2003-12-01 10:37 pm
Evening/bedtime
Decided that I was going to do some cleaning. Did dishes, tidied living room, got the avalanche of papers off the coffee table into their proper places. Put car stuff in properly-labeled kitty litter buckets. Put the wrapping paper in an old laundry detergent bucket.
Little Fayoumis loves it when I vacuum. I think it's the bonding-time thing, plus an exuse to run around and be noisy. If I ever need to punish him, I can restrict him from running around like a maniac while I vacuum.
When I had to go to the bathroom while I was expecting a call back from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
votania, I told Little Fayoumis that if the phone rang, he could probably answer it. It didn't happen, but he's getting old enough. So I made a beginning phone sheet with letters big enough for him to read easily, and taped it over the phone. It's got Mommy's cellphone number on it, Grandma's number, and Darkside's. I need to add 911 to the list, just 'cause.
marxdarx's mother called back, because he'd called her, and I told her that it (the car situation) was under control, and she could stop worrying. She was a bit surprised that I'd picked up that she was worried. I know my own mother, and she'd have been cooving too.
I kinda swiped at the glass doors, swept the kitchen, scrubbed at the floor a little with a scrubby-cloth, and finally cleaned off the glass coffee table with glass cleaner. This interrupted the games of tic-tac-toe that Little Fayoumis and I were playing slightly. He determined that I should be Fire and he should be Water, because, and I quote, "Water beats Fire." After Water turned out to not beat Fire (I had strategy on my side, more than overbalancing his elemental advantage) he switched to green marker, Earth. We got so very wound up about that. Since we were using different colored markers, we switched to dots instead of Xs and circles, and then we began switching out the symbols we used completely and randomly, leaving only the color as the clue as to who had written what where. You had to be there, I guess.
At one point, he said something bad-but-vaguely-true about himself, and I explained how even if he had lied to himself about that, that it still wasn't nice to call himself a liar, and he would have to say ten nice things about himself. That made him feel way better, even though he was struggling to come up with some of them.
After that, we talked about helicopters versus airplanes, and how helicopters could land straight up and down and airplanes had to have a runway; if an airplane went straight down, it would CRASH!
We worked a little more on practical timekeeping, and he almost put himself to bed ten minutes early before he cross-checked himself with the digital clock.
I did a little bit of swiping around the west bathroom. Little Fayoumis read his reading book to me, and I signed off on it, and colored in the nickel on the reading sheet.
Bliss.
He and I really are doing a lot better now that he's getting more abstract concepts. I really do have to get a periodic table of the elements poster now; he's getting to the point where beginning chemistry, and having him absorb the information by it just being around, is a good plan.
Little Fayoumis loves it when I vacuum. I think it's the bonding-time thing, plus an exuse to run around and be noisy. If I ever need to punish him, I can restrict him from running around like a maniac while I vacuum.
When I had to go to the bathroom while I was expecting a call back from
votania, I told Little Fayoumis that if the phone rang, he could probably answer it. It didn't happen, but he's getting old enough. So I made a beginning phone sheet with letters big enough for him to read easily, and taped it over the phone. It's got Mommy's cellphone number on it, Grandma's number, and Darkside's. I need to add 911 to the list, just 'cause. marxdarx's mother called back, because he'd called her, and I told her that it (the car situation) was under control, and she could stop worrying. She was a bit surprised that I'd picked up that she was worried. I know my own mother, and she'd have been cooving too. I kinda swiped at the glass doors, swept the kitchen, scrubbed at the floor a little with a scrubby-cloth, and finally cleaned off the glass coffee table with glass cleaner. This interrupted the games of tic-tac-toe that Little Fayoumis and I were playing slightly. He determined that I should be Fire and he should be Water, because, and I quote, "Water beats Fire." After Water turned out to not beat Fire (I had strategy on my side, more than overbalancing his elemental advantage) he switched to green marker, Earth. We got so very wound up about that. Since we were using different colored markers, we switched to dots instead of Xs and circles, and then we began switching out the symbols we used completely and randomly, leaving only the color as the clue as to who had written what where. You had to be there, I guess.
At one point, he said something bad-but-vaguely-true about himself, and I explained how even if he had lied to himself about that, that it still wasn't nice to call himself a liar, and he would have to say ten nice things about himself. That made him feel way better, even though he was struggling to come up with some of them.
After that, we talked about helicopters versus airplanes, and how helicopters could land straight up and down and airplanes had to have a runway; if an airplane went straight down, it would CRASH!
We worked a little more on practical timekeeping, and he almost put himself to bed ten minutes early before he cross-checked himself with the digital clock.
I did a little bit of swiping around the west bathroom. Little Fayoumis read his reading book to me, and I signed off on it, and colored in the nickel on the reading sheet.
Bliss.
He and I really are doing a lot better now that he's getting more abstract concepts. I really do have to get a periodic table of the elements poster now; he's getting to the point where beginning chemistry, and having him absorb the information by it just being around, is a good plan.