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The Baby (and Beyond) Blog
Or, the continuing adventures of Miss Julia Moon
12.23.2008
The end of this blog (for now).
Now that Miss Julia is over 4 1/2 years old, most of her exploits are charted on my main blog, so I will only be posting there.
See you at www.heidizone.com ...
Labels: Julia
0 comments10.17.2008
Some Julia malapropisms: Lightning the Queen (for Lightning McQueen from "Cars") and Hocapontas (instead of Pocahontas).
And today she told me she wasn't sure if she wanted to get married after all, since boys are "too crazy." 0 comments
9.28.2008
I'm sitting there eating lunch yesterday and Julia comes to me with a question. "Mommy," she asks, brow furrowed ever so slightly. "What makes the red band red?"
Remembering her many repeated viewings of Disney's "Peter Pan" recently, I guess at her question and wince slightly at the very non PC nature of it. "Do you mean, 'What makes the red man red'?"
I then proceed to offer a careful dissertation on why some people used to refer to other people as "red," even though their skin wasn't really red, and how we all have different colored skin, and isn't that wonderful.
"So," she says, considering the matter. "It really should be 'What makes the reddish brown man reddish brown?'" 0 comments
9.17.2008
Says the brilliant girl: "I know why it's called a sidewalk. It's because it's at the side of the road and you can walk on it."
Labels: Julia, vocabulary
0 comments9.02.2008
Phrase recently used by Julia, accurately, in conversation: "Speaking of which ..." 0 comments
8.17.2008
Daddy took the day off from work on Friday to go with Julia and the rest of the dinosaur class to their second big field trip of the summer, a Pirate Cruise from Annapolis (I attended the first one, to the Aquarium on Baltimore's Inner Harbor on 7.25, where I gained a new appreciation for the Herculean task of being a preschool teacher and wrangling multiple 4-year-olds all day).
As it happened, the bus got caught in traffic on the way there, and they arrived having just missed the Pirate Cruise. Instead, they were allowed to go on one of the company's regular bay cruises. None the wiser, the jolly Dinosaurs appeared not to notice that their "pirate" cruise was on a regular boat and no pirates were onboard. All they knew was that they had a boat ride which they had been informed was a pirate boat ride, and they got pirate coins and tattoos at the end. As far as they were concerned, it *was* a pirate cruise.
And this is the beauty of childlike belief. 0 comments
8.05.2008
Our wonderful AFI Silver Theatre in downtown Silver Spring has been having a Jim Henson retrospective, so on Sunday I took Julia to see "The Muppets Take Manhattan." So thus her first real movie in a real theater was in a beautifully restored movie house, watching Kermit and the gang singing and dancing and telling corny jokes. I'm not sure what she made of it, but the grownups were laughing!
And here are some recent "Julia-isms": A hamburger is a hangurber, and she refers to "Cars" as "the Lightning the Queen movie" (the main character is Lightning McQueen). 0 comments
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