After a long day at work, after driving 45 minutes (!) home, after supper, after two girls jumping all over me - literally and figuratively - about playing on the swingset, after giving in, we went outside. I pushed the two girls not quite as well as their Dad would have. But he was inside not feeling well.
They giggled and soared.
Bee found a red leaf - proof positive that autumn is unfolding.
Bee will start K4 next week. It's a new development, and I'll be working a bit at the school, as well. I'm going to teach them to blog. Seriously.
So Bee found a leaf, and held it out to me to show me that fall is here, and thus the "you're going to school this fall" should turn into "you're going to school now."
The sun set behind the still-green horizon of Panther Mountain, behind our house, and we all walked into the house.
Bee turned to me with her grown-up little hand gesture. "this song has been in my head forever..."
"What song honey?"
She hum/whistled something I did not recognize.
"And there's a man carrying a baby in a basket," she continued, as though she had seen it in a movie.
"A man had a baby in a basket?"
"Yes. He had a baby in a basket and then he turned like" she cartoonishly turned quickly and looked over her shoulder "to see if there was a car.... Maybe that all came from my mind. It's been in my head forever."
She hummed the song happily. "The man was whistling the song," she said.
A man was whistling. He carried a baby in a basket. He was looking over his shoulder for cars.
It has been in her head forever.
Of course it has!
Posted by: ppb | Wednesday, 29 August 2007 at 08:59 AM
Jeez Mom, didn't you know it's been in her head all along??? What a great story...I have missed hearing from you and your family! Love to see some new photos of the girls.
Posted by: Norah | Wednesday, 29 August 2007 at 07:45 PM
Happy Anniversary, BB & HSH!
Posted by: lila | Friday, 31 August 2007 at 06:02 PM