I Won! I Won! I Won!

If Jeremy can do it, I can do it. 

I've written before about Jeremy winning swag from The Odd and Offbeat Podcast (see my blog post from August 17, 2020) and calling out, "I won! I won! I won!"

Recently, I could be heard doing the same thing. "I won! I won! I won!" after winning swag from Sarah M. Eden celebrating the release of her book, Fleur-de-Lis. Stickers and bookmarks!

I'm silly, too.

So You Want to Know About More May Holidays?

May 20 was Eliza Doolittle Day. We ate lots of chocolate while watching My Fair Lady.

May 23 was World Turtle Day. Jet played with some turtle stickers. Some of the kids started watching Going Postal.

 

May 29 was Memorial Day this year. We spent the day weeding. I only got a selfie of me with the American flag.

Stickers Return

What happens when the almost 2-year old finds a sheet of stickers... and his mom?

Cuteness!

I wonder who he learned it from.

Stickers

What happens when the five-year old finds a sheet of stickers... and his little brother?

Cuteness!

That's Not How I Would Do It

Such a simple reminder.  I talk about loving my children's creativity, but sometimes I forget to let them be creative their own way and think my way would be better.  In some cases, yes, my way is better.  I have more experience and I can teach my children that certain choices will lead to certain consequences so certain choices are better to make than others.  But when Jr. Jr. decides to stick all of his stickers on the cover of his coloring book, I shouldn't stop him.  He's not putting them on the furniture or the walls.  He's putting them somewhere acceptable.

It may not be the way I'd do it.  My way would be to hoard my stickers and only use some of them for special projects which I'd never get around to doing.
So no, my way is not always the best way.
From time to time I need this reminder.  If it's not dangerous or disrespectful (and time and resources allow) it's okay for my children to do things their own way.
Let the creativity flow.

Poor Abused Little Pluto

February 18th is Pluto Day. The day we celebrate the poor little planet that so many have tried to downgrade to nonplanet status. Pluto you may be more ice than rock and you may be smaller than the Earth's moon, but your heart is big and you will always be a full fledged planet in our book! (To point out the unfairness, Ganymede is bigger than Mercury but Mercury gets to keep its status as a planet.) (Ganymede would be one of Jupiter's Moons.) (For that matter Jupiter is much more gas than rock.) (In fact there is a debate if Jupiter has any solid mass at all.)


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Anyway...

We celebrated Pluto Day by putting stickers on a Solar System sheet Jeremy brought home from the library last month (we actually saved them for today).

 

And then we introduced the kids to our new telescope by pointing it at the wall and letting them see their planets.

They were excited, they were thrilled, they took a quick peek and went back to reading.

Pluto, we are sorry, it looks like the excitement of Pluto Day just did not translate well for them.

But we will always love you this much!

Note the rocket and planet pajamas Jr. Jr. is wearing.

P.S.  Thanks for writing this blog post for me, Jeremy, so I could take a nap.  Here's a little bit more I'll add-
As we were preparing for Pluto Day, we got into a discussion about Pluto and what the kids learned about it at school.
Nichole:  Pluto used to be a planet but then it was called a dwarf planet for no reason, just because it was small.
Jr. started thinking up fairy tales involving Pluto.
Jr.:  Cinderella and the 17 dwarf planets.

Stickers

You know that folder fiasco a few posts ago? Well, in the back of her folder she found her stickers. A bunch of stickers. Guess what she decided to do. Use every single one of them.

Mostly on her person, though I've found some on papers, chairs, me. After a while the stickers don't want to stay on some objects, so now I'm finding them on the floor, on the bottom of my slippers, on me again.
But you have to admit, she sure is cute.