Archive for December, 2007

December 3, 2007 @ 8:18 pm | Filed under: Family

…every time Scott writes about our kids.

I call her name. No reply. Louder. Nothing. The dragon’s got her but
good and who can blame her? Can I really compete with such a wingéd,
scaléd green beast?

I try again and this time she looks up. I make the sign for “car,” and she beams, hops down off the couch.

The earth’s rotation wavers slightly from the sheer beauty of her in motion.

December 2, 2007 @ 8:00 pm | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up

Overheard, Rose to Jane: "You know why I wouldn’t want to be Supergirl? She can never get her ears pierced!"

(Later, they decided that exposure to Red Kryptonite, just long enough for a needle to pierce the earlobe, would solve the problem—in its presence, Supergirl loses her invulnerability. Such are the weighty topics we discuss over Sunday dinner.)

December 2, 2007 @ 7:51 pm | Filed under: Hearing Loss, Sign Language, Special Needs Children, Speech Delay, Wonderboy

Still trying to tidy up my archives. Here are the most substantive posts I’ve written about Wonderboy’s hearing loss:

The Speech Banana (hearing loss diagnosis)

Getting Ear Molds Made (a photoessay)

Practicing for Hearing Tests (games to help preschoolers in the sound booth)

Speech Therapy at Home

Visual Phonics

Newborn Hearing Test Advice

Sign Language (how awesome it is)

Learning ASL as a Family

Fun with FM (heh heh)

Expressive and Receptive Language

December 2, 2007 @ 11:29 am | Filed under: These People Crack Me Up

"Mommy, do you know why you will always survive a shark attack?"

"Ooh, why?"

"Because you never get in the water. You always stay on the towel with the babies."

I guess I can’t argue with that.

December 2, 2007 @ 10:41 am | Filed under: Books

Cay Gibson is giving away a copy of her new book, Christmas Mosaic, An Illustrated Book Study for Advent and Christmas! She has extended the deadline to tomorrow (Monday) morning, so hurry over to the Cajun Cottage and leave your name & address in her comments! There are other prizes, too.

Christmas Mosaic is a treasury of activities and commentaries on Christmas-themed picture books. Cay, author of the hugely popular Catholic Mosaic, has worked her magic again to put together a rich booklist for Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany. More than 80 of the 200 titles have been annotated with recipes, craft ideas, and more.

She has also included essays by:

Alice Gunther
Karen Edmisten
Kathryn Faulkner
Margot Davidson
Dawn Hanigan
Elizabeth Foss
Jennifer Miller
Gwen Wise

Sounds delightful, doesn’t it? Yet another book I can’t wait to read!

December 2, 2007 @ 9:47 am | Filed under: Little House

Little House fans won’t want to miss Sarah Miller’s interview with Pamela Smith Hill, author of the new biography, Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer’s Life. I can’t wait to get my hands on the book.

Sarah Miller is the author of another book high on my TBR list: Miss Spitfire: Reaching Helen Keller, about the fascinating Anne Sullivan.

   

December 1, 2007 @ 8:28 am | Filed under: Fun Educational Stuff

Because it was Julie who introduced me to Scrabulous.

Online Scrabble. Free. You don’t even have to register. Need I say more?

Ah, but I will. Yesterday we had games going back and forth on our two computers: Rose vs. Mom, Jane vs. Mom, Dad vs. Mom. Everyone is out to get me!

There was also a Rose vs. Jane game on the living-room floor, the old-fashioned kind, not the virtual.

Rilla tried to make off with oxen, but we caught her.