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March 17, 2005
Lately I've been taking Zeke's alphabet magnets and making little three-letter words out of them and playing word games. Like I'll make BIT and then replace the B with an L so that it makes LIT. Zeke usually has no idea what the word is, but he really likes playing the game, so I keep up with it. Actually, he thinks every word is BIT because that's the first one I made for him. I spell PAY and he says, "bit!" He's also fond of putting an S on the end of words and then saying, "bits!" This is because I made the word BIT and then handed Zeke the letter S and asked, "Can you make SIT?" He looked thoughtful and then stuck the S on the end of BIT. "Well, Zeke," I said, "that's not SIT, but you did make the word BITS!"
He thought that was cool. So now every time I make a word -- any word -- he puts an S on the end and says, "bits!"
In other news, Zeke came down with a hideous virus on Sunday that made his voice all raspy. On Monday, Keith and I conferred about whether or not to cancel his preschool assessment on Tuesday. "I think he sounds better," I ventured. Keith looked at me. "Baby...he sounds like a 60-year-old smoker."
So we kept him home, out of respect for the other kids and also because we didn't want his potential teachers thinking he had a pack-a-day habit at the tender age of 3. We had a hell of a time rescheduling. The school was supposed to call us back on Tuesday, but didn't. We called and left voicemail. Keith actually contacted a real live human being there on Wednesday morning, and was told to expect a call back later in the day. This never materialized. We left more voicemail. Thursday morning I sent an email to the address the director gave in her voicemail. Miracle of miracles, she wrote back, explaining that she'd been sick with the same Martian Death Virus (not her words) that had infected every one else around here, and that's why she hadn't got back to us earlier. I was somewhat mollified. Anyway, the new appointment is next Wednesday, and I am looking forward to it.
I had something else to report, back when I started this entry eight hours ago (Stazi woke up from her nap and then both kids needed a snack and then Stazi pooped and then Zeke had to use the potty and then Zeke wanted the same snack Stazi had but we were out of that snack and then we had to read a book and then we had to work on Zeke's duckling costume for Duckling Day and then Stazi pooped again and then Zeke wanted a drink and then we had a fight about whether or not to turn the TV on and then it was time to go pick up Keith from work) but I can't remember what it was anymore. My brain, it is like the proverbial Swiss cheese.
Posted by Jan at March 17, 2005 6:10 PM