Fun to watch the flakes quiet the city.
The buildings get tucked under a white blanket.
White blanket for the skyscrapers
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Do Ho Suh’s Gate and Santa’s footprints
We decided to have Santa visit a couple weeks early to make time for our trip to Guatemala and Belize. Naomi and Simone dusted the floor with flour hoping to get some tracks from Santa’s boots or reindeer paw prints but it turns out flour isn’t so great at catching foot prints. There were marks but it was hard to ascertain what they were from. But good news, the cookies and milk were gone and the tree was full of presents. The girls dug right in and made short work of liberating the toys.
It was dawn and the girls thought they saw Santa off to the left headed toward Mt Rainier.
We decided to spend the rest of the day kicking around town, seeing Do Ho Suh’s “Gate” at the Seattle Art Museum, riding the carousel, playing in the market toy shops, and counting Santas. We traditionally do a little Santa counting treasure hunt for a prize. ”Gate” is a powerful piece.
Living past 100… actively
Homework in the Globe
Naomi and I kept Simone company while she did her homework. She graphed the number of fireboats, ferries, rooftop satellite dishes, buses, pink cars, horse-drawn carriages and bicycle carriages and calculated the “range.” Then she drew a detailed picture of the scene in front of her and wrote about it with the most specific adjectives she could think of.
One way to work with fractions.
Naomi has been decorating with fractions. I saw one that had fallen out and put it in and she, clearly horrified, pulled it right back out again saying, “That doesn’t go there. See the pattern. That one goes here.” ”Green, Blue, Blue, Mix, Blue, Green, Green, Mix.”