Perseus leaves for school ... |
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Friday, October 23, 2009
growth spurt |
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For the first couple of years, Benjamin was 90th percentile for height. Then at his 3yo checkup, he was suddenly 50th percentile. The doctor acted as if that was fine. He's average, after all, right? But when I pointed out the vector, he understood my concern. The nurse measured Benjamin at 37.5" at the time. That was the same result we got at home, so the doctor told us to keep measuring him and see if he progressed at about 2 inches per year. Only three months later, Benjamin has already grown almost 2 inches! Tonight we measured him at 39.25". A web calculator I found says that that's 82nd percentile for a 39-month-old boy. (But that same web calculator says he was 60th percentile in July.) Anyway, that's quite a growth spurt.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
grimace for the camera |
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
pour papa |
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I was delighted to discover, among the drawings Benjamin brought home, one that said "Pour Papa." I think Benjamin and his teacher collaborated on this one:

Labels: drawing
Pegasus Suite |
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Tuesday, October 06, 2009
P's & Q's |
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Saturday, October 03, 2009
balloon Pegasus |
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Friday, October 02, 2009
eye of the beholder |
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Benjamin brought home this drawing today:

I said, "Oh, this is a guy standing in the middle of a bunch of trees, isn't it?"
Benjamin replied, "No it's not!"
"What is it?"
"It's a cyclops!" he said pointing to the one-eyed fellow in the center.
"Well, yes, but what are these?" I asked pointing to what I thought were trees.
"Those are trees."
"So it is a guy standing in the middle of a bunch of trees!"
"No it's not!"
"These things to his immediate sides, though. Those aren't trees. Are they Polyphemus's sheep?"
"No!" he insisted. "Those are the things he's holding!"
Were we going to repeat the pattern? "And," I asked patiently, "are the things he's holding sheep?"
"No, they're juice bottles!"
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
marine biology vs classical mythology |
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I think Benjamin's teacher misunderstood what he was saying he had drawn:

Une méduse, in French, is a many-tentacled jellyfish. But I'm quite confident that Benjamin didn't mean une méduse but rather la Méduse — Medusa herself:

self-portrait |
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Benjamin brought home some drawings from preschool today.
Here's his self-portrait:

("It's Pegasus!")
Labels: drawing
horrorculture |
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I don't think Benjamin knows what a snapdragon looks like, but he loves the idea that there's a flower with "dragon" in its name.
Here's the painting he did at the Discovery Museum yesterday:

("It's a snapdragon!")
Monday, September 28, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Benjamin's walking stick |
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Sunday, August 30, 2009
inside Benjamin's imagination |
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As Benjamin gets more and more into monsters of all sorts, he reminds me more and more of the comic-strip character Lio:

Thursday, August 27, 2009
dentist |
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
little blue monster |
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me: I have an idea. Let's go on a treasure hunt tomorrow.bb: A treasure hunt?
me: Yes, we'll take your bucket into the woods and hunt for treasure.
bb: What treasure?
me: Well, we'll have to make a list of thing we want to find. We'll write up a list of five things.
bb: How about a blue monster?
me: Well, OK, that can be one of the five things I suppose. But I was thinking about treasure like river rocks, pine cones, a big piece of moss ...
bb: A little blue monster.
me: A little one might be harder to find. The more specific you are ahead of time, the harder it is to find something that satisfies your description.
bb: But it has to fit in the bucket!






























