Sunday, February 19, 2012

This weekend


With old freelance projects to finish up and the new job as well, it feels like I've been working ever since I got back from Sydney. Every day, every weekend, even some nights. So on Saturday - sunny, blue and warm - I was very happy to finally have a day off and go skiing with my family.

That lasted about 5 minutes, before the non-stop wails of I can't do it and it's too hard combined with not even an ounce of trying had me shouting spouting a number of parenting gems. At both kids.

C took over with Téo, and when Lukan and I had both finished sulking, I redeemed myself slightly by getting Lukan to slide by himself for the first time:


And then we walked out onto the frozen lake and built a snowman:


Which was very nice of Lukan, since what he actually wanted to do was play in the playground.

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Do you want me to be able to wead?

This is what Lukan says, sidling up with a cheeky smile.

There is of course only one possible answer.

Then you'd better let me do Weading Eggs!


He's been asking to do it for the last 6 months or so, and while he learned the sounds of the letters, he never got the actual reading part, was never able to put the letter sounds together into a word. But his brain must have grown the right connections recently, because look how far he's come in the last two weeks:


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I stopped him after 3 lessons. And then the house was invaded by piwates.



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