She has been home from school for five days and I am doing as much as I can to make sure that she is comfortable and occupied.
We have been doing homework, flashcards and cutting paper dolls. We have played endless hands of Skipbo and Uno. We also have been doing projects from a site called Scout Creative Calendar of the month club. This site offers free 3/d paper sculpture templates for each month.
Mimi uses the directions and puts them together with minimal effort(she carefully reads instructions) .I bumble my way through(I skim instructions),but they do pass the time.
I also seized my teeny captive audience to brainwash with my Old Hollywood film collection.
We watched" The Sound of Music", Shirley Temple , Little Rascal shorts and "That Darn Cat".
One evening, much to her dismay, we watched "Singin In The Rain". I was preaching to her about the comedic timing of Donald O'Connor, how Debbie Reynolds learned to dance for the movie and of course the brilliance of Gene Kelly.
As we watched the iconic scene of Gene splashing through the puddles, I thought about how much JieJie loved the movie when she was Mimi's age. I was embracing every second thinking of how this would ring forever in Mimi's memory, and have influence on her approach to film.
Mimi simply watched with logical disbelief.
She was dumbfounded,"Mom, it's pouring rain,why is he doing that?" I responded, "Mimi he is in love, the world is a beautiful place, even though it is raining."
Mimi then stated "I think that the water is going to ruin his dress shoes", "Oh mama why is he giving his umbrella to that police man?"" He is going to really get soaked." "Doesn't he know that the water pipe he is standing under is filled with gross stuff?" ,"Can't he just get a taxi?"
And I thought JieJie lacked whimsy.
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| snuggling with Baby Zelda |
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| Scout Creative January calendar |
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| Scout Creative February calendar |
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| Mimi, self portrait, entertaining herself with instagram |
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