The Christmas wish list part II

Posted on December 11, 2008 by Momzoo

After posting Punk #1’s hilarious and strange Christmas wish list I thought I should do some explaining. My little daughter is a Geologist, or at least a Geologist in training (good guess Mr. Jeanette). After school she loves to go up in the hill behind our house and collect rocks. Then she brings them to the back step and does this:

For hours and hours she sits there and breaks apart those rocks with a hammer. She knows which rock have little crystals in them and which rocks break apart easily along lines.

She is our little Geologist.

Last Saturday Dadzoo took her to Home Depo, he needed some paint for a project. She came home with these:

Her very own hammer and protective eye gear. She is so excited, Dadzoo will no longer worry about her losing his hammer and Momzoo won’t worry about flying rocks hitting her eyes.

It was a win-win purchase.

So when she gave me her rather unusual Christmas list I wasn’t very surprised (this coming from a girl who wanted to be a Pickle for Halloween when she was three) and she gave me detailed reasons behind every item.

In case you all were wondering here is her list and reasoning:

A bottle of vinegar: to test rocks, you can tell different types of rock by how they react with certain chemicals, and since she is 9 she is limited to vinegar. She once used a whole gallon on a Saturday afternoon.
Tweezers: So she can easily pick up small sparkly rocks.
A box of baggies: To keep her collections of favorite rocks, since she had been baned from using mine. You have no idea how fast she can go through a box of 500 baggies.
A box of garbage sacks: So she can break-up her rocks on top of this, for easy clean up.
Work gloves: To protect her hands of coarse.

Some small jars: For her very favorite and smallest specimens.

A tool belt: To hold the hammer, eye glasses and other various tools, especially beneficial when working in the field.
Rock tumbler & Rock polishing kit: A necessary tool in any aspiring Geologist collection.

That’s my girl!

Christmas wish list

Posted on December 8, 2008 by Momzoo

This is my oldest child’s Christmas wish list

A bottle of vinegar
Tweezers
A box of baggies
A box of garbage sacks
Work gloves
Some small jars
A tool belt

Rock tumbler

Rock polishing kit

“oh and maybe” she says:

some Legos

huh????

SLAVE

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Momzoo

My baby girl is 4 1/2 years old and has a hard time talking so she can be understood. I have been trying to work on this with her. Whenever she says something a little off we will try out the sounds and say it again and find other words with the same sounds.

For example today she said “I don’t like pankins (Spankings)”

So we practiced saying the “S” sound and we said spanking a few times, then we tried to find other words that started with the “S” sound so we could practice. It turns into quite a game for us and we have a good time trying to find words. Today we came up with words like: Silly, Sunday, Summer, Spring, Sweet and Snake.

Later that afternoon I had my little daughter gather towels in the bathroom so I could wash them. As she was caring the towels into the laundry room she said:

“Ssss, Sssss, SLAVE!”