Maker

Sometimes it’s fun being sick

October 23, 2008

The Maker had a bad cold the other day.  Runny nose, sore throat, your basic not-feeling-that-great kind of thing.  He was pretty much over it within 24 hours, at which time he noted that "sometimes it's fun being sick."  In particular: You get a lot of cool toys to play with in bed, and your [...]

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commerce in action

October 10, 2008

A few days ago, the Ice and the Maker decided to open up a store.  (Actually, there may have been two separate stores, one for each boy, or it may have been a single store with each boy having his own section.)  At any rate, the store was located in our living room and it [...]

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My boys love to clean

October 5, 2008

Now that the weather finally cooled off a little I decided it was time for some fall cleaning, so I told the Ice and the Maker that we were going to clean all the downstairs windows.  I had already taken out all the screens and gotten the cleaning supplies out, so I showed them what [...]

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the big, giant, enormous grasshopper

September 24, 2008

Yesterday, the Maker came running into the house all breathless and excited "Dad, this is the greatest thing that just happened!  Me, Jacob, and Matt were catching grasshoppers yesterday, and we caught this huge one, this big, giant, enormous one, and we let it go at the end of the day.  It was our favorite, [...]

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Current favorite books

September 22, 2008

Here are three recently-read books which the Maker has declared to be awesome: Acorn Magic, by Maggie Stern - Simon's neighbor, Mrs. Potter, gives him a "magic" acorn, which helps him spot animals, then takes him on a camping adventure.  (There are apparently more Simon-and-Mrs.-Potter books; we're gonna look for the rest.) What Is A [...]

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A tale of two readers

September 13, 2008

A while back I decided that I wanted to read the Dickens novel "A Tale of Two Cities."  Somehow I had gotten to adulthood without ever having read it and I felt like I really needed to fill that gaping hole in my education.  Unfortunately, even after starting the book several times, I could never [...]

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Sometimes you just need a little help

September 10, 2008

I find myself intrigued by the number of times in just the past few weeks in which I've noticed the Maker become interested in some book or task or project, pursue it for a few minutes, and then quietly abandon it.  Some of these projects have been suggested to him by me or his mom, [...]

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Another musician in the house

September 10, 2008

I wanna put up a stand outside where I can play my music, and at the end of the day people will give me money in my case, like they used to do in the old days. -The Maker, age 8 All three of my boys have shown an interest in music.  The First is [...]

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and the boy learned to like leaves

September 6, 2008

The wife asked the Maker to make her a "popout" picture. He made a picture of a leaf and created a 3D effect with it, then decided to add a kind of poem to it. He says he got the poem idea from a Pokemon video he saw once.

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Halloween math

September 4, 2008

A few days ago, we got a catalog from the Oriental Trading Company in the mail.  Oriental is a company that sells party supplies, trinkets, and other novelty items, and their latest catalog showcases all of their Halloween offerings.  The Maker loves this kind of thing, and as soon as he saw the catalog, he [...]

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