What They're Saying, How They're Growing
If our upload speed weren't glacial, I would post photos of:
-The gifts they made each other for Christmas (girls to boys:macaroni glued onto framed photos and spray-painted in gold. And boys to girls: stories they wrote about birds in laminated books, tiny birds, wicker nests that came in machine-sewn cases they had made during Advent.
-Their adventure to Wertz Candy on Cumberland St. where they took a half hour carefully choosing candy cigarettes, candy legos, peanut butter opera fudge and gummi worms.
-Tiles they painted at the new Whole Paycheck (credit:Briana and Marian) in Plymouth Meeting. Manny painted a pickle. Benicio did an eggplant.
-Benicio in the pin-striped, charcoal-colored, wool Yves Saint Laurent blazer I thrifted with Ames on my birthday. (Unfortunately, he will only wear it if I pay him a dollar.)
-The cup-bottoms from the girls' hot-chocolate they downed at Le Petit Mitron. And a photo of them with chocolate mustaches and their winter caps.
-Manny running up the aisle at St. V's during the "Church Search" for his First Reconcilation Retreat.
-Manny's classmates playing Sawsaw Suka Mahuli Taya and squealing with laughter.
-Manny explaining the blood pact of the Filipino Revolution to his class.
-Calliope, toes curved over the pool's edge and jumping wearing a little styrofoam cube on her back.
-Clara doing ballet spins to Kidz Bop version of Hot and Cold.
-the "Tunnel Through Time" Geoff and the kids built for my birthday, which included Maria Callas, wall-sized projection, and myriad photos I haven't seen in so long.
What They're Saying:
I'm knitting with Benicio: Me: Benici, look at my cast-on, I'm confused, do I start here or down here?
Thoughtful pause:
Benicio: I don't know. It's okay. Just explore it.
Clara during the consecration at noon Mass: So, wine plus water makes blood? How?
The Communion Hymn on Sunday where the words say that God is "waiting like a lover." Clara, listening carefully and then laughing to herself. I say, "What's funny, Clara?" She whispers to me, "I thought they were saying LOAVER."
Manny and Benicio knitting in the living room. Manny says, "Doing this first row is hard for me."
Benicio: It's hard for everyone in the beginning.
Yesterday I was putting Calliope in the bike chariot to go pick up Clara. "I have to go get Cheep Cheep and Sax!" Cheep Cheep is a crocheted bird. Sax is her baby boy doll.
Me to the boys: Do either of you know what a sentence is?
Benicio: It's when your voice ends and you put a period at the end.
-The gifts they made each other for Christmas (girls to boys:macaroni glued onto framed photos and spray-painted in gold. And boys to girls: stories they wrote about birds in laminated books, tiny birds, wicker nests that came in machine-sewn cases they had made during Advent.
-Their adventure to Wertz Candy on Cumberland St. where they took a half hour carefully choosing candy cigarettes, candy legos, peanut butter opera fudge and gummi worms.
-Tiles they painted at the new Whole Paycheck (credit:Briana and Marian) in Plymouth Meeting. Manny painted a pickle. Benicio did an eggplant.
-Benicio in the pin-striped, charcoal-colored, wool Yves Saint Laurent blazer I thrifted with Ames on my birthday. (Unfortunately, he will only wear it if I pay him a dollar.)
-The cup-bottoms from the girls' hot-chocolate they downed at Le Petit Mitron. And a photo of them with chocolate mustaches and their winter caps.
-Manny running up the aisle at St. V's during the "Church Search" for his First Reconcilation Retreat.
-Manny's classmates playing Sawsaw Suka Mahuli Taya and squealing with laughter.
-Manny explaining the blood pact of the Filipino Revolution to his class.
-Calliope, toes curved over the pool's edge and jumping wearing a little styrofoam cube on her back.
-Clara doing ballet spins to Kidz Bop version of Hot and Cold.
-the "Tunnel Through Time" Geoff and the kids built for my birthday, which included Maria Callas, wall-sized projection, and myriad photos I haven't seen in so long.
What They're Saying:
I'm knitting with Benicio: Me: Benici, look at my cast-on, I'm confused, do I start here or down here?
Thoughtful pause:
Benicio: I don't know. It's okay. Just explore it.
Clara during the consecration at noon Mass: So, wine plus water makes blood? How?
The Communion Hymn on Sunday where the words say that God is "waiting like a lover." Clara, listening carefully and then laughing to herself. I say, "What's funny, Clara?" She whispers to me, "I thought they were saying LOAVER."
Manny and Benicio knitting in the living room. Manny says, "Doing this first row is hard for me."
Benicio: It's hard for everyone in the beginning.
Yesterday I was putting Calliope in the bike chariot to go pick up Clara. "I have to go get Cheep Cheep and Sax!" Cheep Cheep is a crocheted bird. Sax is her baby boy doll.
Me to the boys: Do either of you know what a sentence is?
Benicio: It's when your voice ends and you put a period at the end.
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