Changing Patterns
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 11:25PM Sleeping patterns change a lot around here. Something or someone is always shifting...this week, it is Eliana. She has been taking two hour naps. Do you hear me? Two hours. Straight. Asleep in her bed.
I have been standing beside her bed until she's sleeping, which doesn't take too long. It's a sweet time, and often she will want me to hold her (she says,"Hous-shoo, hous-shoo,"-hold you, in this quiet, asking little voice. Who can resist?) but will still lean back into her bed to actually fall asleep.
My time with her, however, means that my other two kids are working on things by themselves quietly. Sometimes I give them options, sometimes they are already engaged in an activity (separate or together).
Today, I "discovered" Christian in our schoolroom/playroom with our pattern blocks. The kids love these colorful, versatile math manipulatives. And Christian, who is quite engineerish, can come up with amazing designs.
This particular time, he not only designed rocketships, he was actually playing with them, moving them around, making the boosters blast off and other things rockety. Look, around here it is rocket science.
Christian's creativity will never stop amazing me. He's very good at putting things together symmetrically.
I love watching him think, seeing him figure out where his game is going next...
watching him concentrate on the pieces, carefully arranging them...
Michaela is just as drawn to them...their lure is powerful!
It is also interesting to watch how their designs unfold in such different ways. Hers are often delicate, like flowers; rockety flowers, but flowers nonetheless (I don't have a photo this time!). And she gives them her undivided attention.
It is great to know they take pride in their work...I found this when I imported the pictures from the camera...
This, however, I have no real explanation for. It's just funny. And kind of cool. Just like my kiddos.
Christian, life together in Uncategorized
Reader Comments (2)
We have to have 200MB of pictures of these! When we were at the seminary, the kids would build their patterns from one end of the apartment to the other...and then they had to take pictures at each foot interval.
They really are fun. Even Eliana likes to fool around with them. I bet with your growing family you have to have many, many sets!