House guest
We have a guest staying with us this weekend. He's a bit of a bear. Oh, it's ok. He won't see this. He can't use a computer, let alone read. His name is "H" and he is the school's class teddy bear. Every student in the class gets to take "H" home for the weekend. This weekend is Bobbin's turn. "H" comes with his own journal where "he" writes about what he saw and did that weekend. Here was his entry for today, as dictated verbatim by Bobbin:
November 15, 2008
This morning after breakfast Bobbin took me to soccer. I played with some new friends like "Z". "Z" is a little boy in Bobbin's soccer class. I had lots of fun even though I fell down. I liked the squishy balls. After soccer I went to McDonald's with Bobbin. I had chicken nuggets and a chocolate chip cookie. Then we went to the painting store. I painted chocolate chip cookies and I went potty all by myself. Then we went to play in the play area with all kinds of instruments. Then I lied down and took a rest. After dinner tonight Bobbin said we would have ice cream.
I told Bobbin that because "H" can't talk, she needed to tell me what words to use in his journal to explain what he did today. The above was the result. I did have to prompt a bit with questions. And despite what his journal says, neither "H" nor Bobbin consumed a chocolate chip cookie at any point today. Nor did either of them paint chocolate chip cookies at the painting store. They painted something else entirely. And "H" actually spent most of soccer on the sidelines. He did lose his pants at one point, but he didn't fall. However this was her project, so I just wrote what she dictated :-) Although I did choose to omit how "'H' did hit at soccer, and that's not ok. And sometimes he bites. And he bited at soccer and I said 'no' and then he got a time out and then he was sorry and then he KICKED the ball so high it bumped down on his head and he got really really hurt and the ambulance came to take him to the doctor".
Here are the photos that we'll stick onto the journal entry for today:
Tomorrow is Football. I can't find the tiny Seahawks jersey that Bobbin had for one of her Build-A-Bear teddy bears, which got Bobbin all distraught. So today at the QFC I found a nice $2.99 beer cozy shaped like a Seahawks Jersey that should do nicely. Bobbin doesn't know what it really is. And that's ok :-). Stay tuned for photos from the game!
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