Happy Three Months, Little Turnip.
You are home right now with me and Clementine while Mommy is eating sushi with her girlfriends for a late birthday get-together. You were screaming when Mommy left but now you are swaddled and asleep on your bouncy chair.
Here is a three months interview with you, little princess.
These days, you are chirping and going nuts on the changing table; I love it. Two nights this week you slept for 8 HOURS! This made Mommy very happy. That means, though, that you need to be fed every 2 when you are awake. You’ve been a very good sleeper in the nighttime, with just the occasional binky crisis. Your hands are very active now, stroking my arm hair when I’m holding you, grasping at some of the dangling toys on your play mat, and getting tied up in your binky leash. Tonight I saw you touching the felt on the head of your infant butterfly toy. You are soaking it all in with your hands.
And now you are wailing again….probably hungry. I’ll be right back.
90 minutes later…..You were hungry, so I fed you and then fed myself some quinoa chili Mommy made this week. Then we played around a little. Now you are back in your bouncy chair…I can tell you are ready for a rest when you turn your head away from stimuli….our faces, music, lights, that means it is time to help you get some sleep.
Here are top stories in the news this week: The Seattle Seahawks will play the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 50, the city is excited, peace arbitration talks have begun to end the Assad Regime war in Syria, the Winter Olympics are set to begin in Sochi, Russia in a few weeks, Hilary Clinton hasn’t announced yet that she’ll run for president in 2016 but it is thought that she will, the Republican favorite Chris Cristie, is now being defamed for a bridge closing scandal his aides created to punish a NJ mayor who did not support him, the drill that has been boring a new tunnel hole under Seattle has hit a snag and no one knows why.
Today was the last day of finals at my high school, so we are halfway done with the school year. I received a kind e-mail from a parent of a student I had in M.A.T.H. (Math in Art, Technology, and History) class. Here is some of it:
Hi Mr. Peabody,
I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for teaching a math class for those students who will not be future mathematicians! The district has been increasing the standards every year in all areas, but in math in particular. The overall goal is admirable but is just not inclusive of all the students, some of which do not have math as a strength and others who have different abilities. There are many great programs in place for the gifted and struggling students (IEPs come to mind), but not much in the way of help for those stuck in between. Your class has been his best math experience since entering high school three years ago. He came into M.A.T.H with very little confidence in this area and is leaving with a great experience. …Our family has benefited from both math tracks offered to RHS. YYY is a biochemistry major and just completed the calculus series at the UW (I believe she took math analysis form you) and now XXX has achieved that which has alluded him, passing of the QSR, and having a fun time in your class.
If math teachers at RHS ever need support, or a parent’s point of view, to fight for more courses to serve this population of students, please feel free to contact me. I would be happy to help!
Thank you for all that you do. ZZZ
This was a great e-mail to receive during a stressful last day of finals.
Last night I had a dream where I was in the middle of a community center. There were tables of animal carcasses around the room and I was going around to the tables, picking up a carcass, and swinging it around above my head to hear the sound. It was like I was sampling them to try to pick the one I liked the most. There were other people in the room, but I did not focus on them at all….I just wanted to swing those bodies and listen to the sound they made.
What does that mean? Well, I’m guessing that the center is my life, the tables and animals represent the choices I can make. That is just a cursory glance, but I’ve got choices and it is ok to try different suits to see how they perform for me.
One last thing……Grammy Nell Sterrenberg, my Grandmother and your Great Grandmother, has been experiencing poor health for a while and is now in hospice care in her nursing home in Watseka, IL. She most likely will not survive much longer. I am hoping that Grammy Diann and Aunt Carmie can be at peace with Grammy Nell as she passes out of her long 97-year old body and into the mystery. Love to you, Grammy Nell.
And love to you, my daughter. Daddy
Grammy Nell