A Sharpie Happy Accident

I recently discovered how to get Sharpie pen doodles out of my microfiber suede sectional. Why would I have such a tantalizing object lying around with an 18 month old galavanting about? Basically I forgot that my favorite art tool was up for grabs on the table after doing some robot drawings with Sekani. Yes, the artist is shown at right. The secret potion to removing the marks is rubbing alcohol and a lot of elbow grease.  After the alcohol, I took a water damped cloth to the scoured areas. And voila, stains gone. And Sharpie calls itself a permanent marker. Hah!

A Simple Request

Tatak Bakawa. That means can you turn the television on in Spanish. Put your ear on my mouth. TATAK BAKAWA. Okay?

My Son's President

1-20-09

For our Inauguration party, Sekani has voted for baking O shaped brownies with blue sprinkles. 

SELF IMAGE; SKIN AND HAIR

The conversation went like this:

Sekani: I want hair like Mommy. I want skin like Mommy.

Daddy: Yeah? I can understand that because Mommy is so beautiful. Do kids at school say anything about your hair or skin?

Sekani: No.

Daddy: Do you have any friends that look like you at school?

Sekani: No.

Daddy: I think your hair and skin are cool because they are a blend of Mommy and Daddy.

Sekani: Uh-huh.

Daddy: You know what's cool? When you get older, you'll find that looking different from everyone else is cool.

Sekani: OK. Do you want to see how fast this race car can go? Watch. Vrrrrrrrrrrooooooooo....

It's tricky not to project our thoughts on to our babies, but I was so grateful for us, as a family, to be having this conversation. It's only the beginning.

Puppet Party

Mid December, we hosted a holiday party with our cousins. They were such good sports about the party's entertainment-- BYOP (bring your own puppets, handmade puppets encouraged). The kids and adults alike participated and after all the puppet shows were performed, we had impromptu scenes such as this one...stage right. It was a good time.

Our puppet story began with Sekani's intro, "Once upon a time there was a big form of earth and it got turned into puppets and it turned into a puppet show..."

A HAPPY NEW YEAR...

One of the much anticipated parts of the holiday season is receiving photo cards from friends and family. If you didn't receive ours, well, it's not that our friendship has dissolved, rather mama got busy doing other things. And family photo ops rarely happen in time to send festive photo cards. So, here is our holiday hello from our family to yours.