As Baylor was away with a friend for an overnight, I took the opportunity to do another "purge" of the girls' toy room . . . a large, black trash bag hauled out to the curb, and another big bag carried to the basement marked "Bay -- ferment -- March '12" (of things I deem trash that have potential to be a legit treasure in her mind -- after 6-ish months, this collection goes from lower level to trash). What remains is easily, then, organized and put away, leaving lots of breathing room and space to play. Phew! There were a few papers that I kept for scrapbooks . . . Evidence of her playing teacher in her make-believe classroom . . .
"Dear Julie Cunningham, Johnathon needs to work on four core words. Thye are, somebody, landscape, author, and natinal. He knows alot already. Like without, throughout, tantrum, department, catalog, and dictinoary. He's really good! Yours truly, Ms. Mkay P.S. If you'd like a copy of all of his lists, just let me know! --Mrs. Mkay"
And this concoction, apparently from a day she was spending time with her dictionary . . .
"Funny word list from the dictionary . . . rainbow beef misel measles throng spur sprung astronomer baffle bacterium bald barber band barium barnacle barracks barometer barris basin."
Must have begun randomly, and then went OCD in the "b's."
It is an exhausting few hours to do the "Baylor's stuff purge," AND hilarious!
I found three "story-writing" binders. And two folders of the same -- completed stories she's written, ideas for future stories, lists of the stories . . . Papers too numerous to count that have come home from school with her that she uses for her "classroom" upstairs -- lunch calendars, extra worksheets, old flashcards . . . Old, used-up gift cards as play credit cards . . . Scraps of fabric from Grandma's she's using for God knows what in the "baby nursery" . . . And then the bags and purses that multiply on the row of hooks behind the door, in one of which I found ANOTHER "story-writing" binder AND folder . . .
I'm going in, if you don't see me in three hours, send search and rescue -- I've disappeared into Baylor Ann Hermione-Ramona Cluver's imaginary world.
"Dear Julie Cunningham, Johnathon needs to work on four core words. Thye are, somebody, landscape, author, and natinal. He knows alot already. Like without, throughout, tantrum, department, catalog, and dictinoary. He's really good! Yours truly, Ms. Mkay P.S. If you'd like a copy of all of his lists, just let me know! --Mrs. Mkay"
And this concoction, apparently from a day she was spending time with her dictionary . . .
"Funny word list from the dictionary . . . rainbow beef misel measles throng spur sprung astronomer baffle bacterium bald barber band barium barnacle barracks barometer barris basin."
Must have begun randomly, and then went OCD in the "b's."
It is an exhausting few hours to do the "Baylor's stuff purge," AND hilarious!
I found three "story-writing" binders. And two folders of the same -- completed stories she's written, ideas for future stories, lists of the stories . . . Papers too numerous to count that have come home from school with her that she uses for her "classroom" upstairs -- lunch calendars, extra worksheets, old flashcards . . . Old, used-up gift cards as play credit cards . . . Scraps of fabric from Grandma's she's using for God knows what in the "baby nursery" . . . And then the bags and purses that multiply on the row of hooks behind the door, in one of which I found ANOTHER "story-writing" binder AND folder . . .
I'm going in, if you don't see me in three hours, send search and rescue -- I've disappeared into Baylor Ann Hermione-Ramona Cluver's imaginary world.
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