Felicity the Tape Recorder

Ok, I suppose using the term "tape recorder" shows that I'm out of it in terms of technology. Should I say she's a CD burner?

Anyway, what I mean is, she repeats everything she hears someone say. Especially Kwamai, which of course makes for some interesting things coming out of her mouth. Her latest cute thing is "Watch, Mama, this is going to be funny, ok?" Usually proceeded by her running into the couch and banging her face on it or some other slapstick.

Why Am I Smiling?

It is certainly not because I like the feel of having the flu, or whatever it is I'm battling.

Definitely not because Felicity had a nap while I lay moaning, from about 4:30 until 7:30pm.

Might be because Erol brought dinner home for those who actually felt like having food in their stomachs, but no.

Isn't even because I had to coax Kwamai to get him to think about using the computer or watching a video while I rested. (Get it? He's so off "screen time" that he forgot about it?)

It is because of the comment I heard him make to Erol upon his homecoming:

"All these videos Mama got me from the library are extremely interesting!"

And they are: (for the record)

Trav's Travels: China
Great Americans for Children: Sacagawea
National Geographic Video: The Explorers: A Century of Discovery
Human Body for Children: All about Cells and Systems

He's pretty stingy when it comes to positive comments these days, so I think I might mentally frame this one.

Library List, June 18

Some renewed, some newly checked out. With the current heat and not having our AC on until after the ducts are cleaned Wednesday, we opted for lots of videos focusing on water themes. Here's the current list:

DVDs

Bob the Builder, Snowed Under

Kipper, Fun in the Sun

Leap Frog, Letter Factory

Wiggles, Sailing Around the World

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Books

Cells and Systems, Holly Wallace

Scooby Doo and the Creepy Chef

Bulldozers

Roley and the Rock Star

Arthur and the Dog Show

Inventors and their Discoveries

Jazzy in the Jungle, Lucy Cousins

Microbes, John Lammert

Microscopic Life in the Home, Brian Ward

Maps, Andrew Haslam

Yuck!, Robert Snedden

The Zoo on You: life on human skin, Harry Breidahl

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Video

Universe Beneath the Sea

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Zoo Life: Creatures of the Deep

Rainbow Fish: School of Fish

Animal Safari: A Learning Journey

Teletubbies: The Magic Pumpkin

Kingdom Under the Sea: Return of the King

Rainbow Fish: High Tide Heroes

Wiggles: Yummy, Yummy

Felicity the Napper

It is such a rare occurrence these days for Felicity to nap at home in bed, that yesterday I thought I should document the event. The whole schedule shift of Vacation Bible School has done a number on her sleep. Unfortunately, a mid-afternoon nap also tends to keep her awake until 11pm or so. Hopefully today we will get back to a more normal rhythm of 9-9 waking and 9-9 sleeping, with perhaps a few moments of catnap at the noon Mass.

But isn't she lovely? :)

It's Been Quiet

Just on the blog, of course -- never in real life!

We've spent the last week at Vacation Bible School, with me doing the music, Kwamai participating, and Felicity hanging out with the tiny tots in the play room. The theme was "Win the World for Jesus". Kwamai learned quite a few thing about missionaries and saints, and was occasionally moved with the desire to be a saint or missionary himself. Of course, such things are rather fleeting in a nearly - 6 year old, but I'll take the moments as they arise!

He's also gotten interested in Native American culture as a result of hearing about St. Isaac Jogues. So, note to self to follow up on that.

Last night, after the closing VBS Mass, concert and party, we came home and got to reading from our Fr. Lovasik book of saints. Today he made some posters with various holy pictures on them. However, he did sort of peter out on his second plan, which was to be exactly like Jesus.

He was especially excited to find pictures of Jesus playing soccer and basketball. As he was working with them, I heard him say "Jesus played soccer when He was little..."

This is his first poster, which includes a picture of his godfather with Pope John Paul II.

Here is the second poster, with those Jesus-as-sportsman pictures.

Library Reading List

I've been meaning to keep a record of what we have checked out from the library. So, here we go!

The Magic School Bus: Inside a Hurricane by Joanna Cole

Arthur and the Dog Show by Marc Brown

Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown

The Night Before Summer Vacation by Natasha Wing

One Big Building by Michael Dahl

Muck's Sleepover by Kiki Thorp

Percy's Chocolate Crunch

Inventors and Their Discoveries by Richard Kozar

Wiggly Party!

Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings by Matthew Van Fleet

Dinosaur Bones by Aliki

Life Begins by John Stidworthy

Dinosaurs by Michael Benton and Ellen Weiss

School Picture Day by Lynn Plourde

Dinosaurs by M. J. Benton

Dinosaurs After Dark by Jonathan Emmett and Curtis Jobling

I Want to Be a Cowgirl by Jeanne Willis

The First Dinosaurs by Dougal Dixon

Jazzy in the Jungle by Lucy Cousins

Polo the Runaway Book by Regis Faller

Take Care, Good Knight by Shelley Moore Thomas

Cells by Michael George

Cells and Systems

Potty Book for Girls

Potty Book for Boys

Muck's Map

The Knights of Fix-a-Lot

Videos:

Birds & Things With Wings

Creatures of the Night

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

The Tale of Tillie's Dragon

Isaac Stern: Life's Virtuoso

Zoboomafoo: Zoboo's Scary Tails

Tiny Animals

Rolie Polie Olie: a Spookie Ooki Halloween

Power Rangers: Curse of the Wolf

Teletubbies: Bedtime Stories

Teletubbies: Dancing with the Teletubbies

DVDs:

Wiggles: Sailing Around the World

Wiggly, Wiggly World

CDs:

Wiggles: Cold Spaghetti Western

Wiggles: Hoop-dee-doo!

Wiggles: Wiggly, Wiggly World

Worship Jamz 2

Are you as impressed as I am that our late fines have been less than one dollar so far this year?

So, What's New With Felicity

A quick Felicity update. Her favorite thing to request these days is "Chinese food". She enjoys the video There Goes a Helicopter and cannot bear having food or water spilled on her clothes. Her hair is curling up a storm now that it is longer and the humidity is pretty intense. She loves Bob the Builder and can sing the entire theme song from the video. She is infatuated with books about using the potty. She is a serious fan of going to the library and will sit at the table to eat a meal for nearly a half hour, as long as she is hungry and Kwamai is not there to distract her. Oh yes, and one of her newest habits is repeating the first word of her sentence about 10 times before getting to the rest of it.

This just-snapped picture makes her look like she is sunburned, but she really isn't!