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Week 300: Volcanos, YouTube, and Climbing October 25, 2009
Man, week 300? I've been doing this for three hundred weeks? Doesn't seem like it. Sorry I don't have anything special planned. I guess I could dig up some sparklers here somewhere...
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Actually not a particularly eventful week all told. One cool thing is that Sam has started to sound out words she sees, so I'm pretty sure she'll be reading on her own soon. For some reason she's also started to show a keen interest in volcanos, though mostly for their immense destructive power. She regularly tests my knowledge of all things volcanic by quissing me.
How do scientists study volcanos without getting killed?" she asked this morning.
"Well," I said, "They study them a lot when they're not erupting. Of they may leave machines behind that record or transmit observations from erupting ones. Or they could study them from far away, like in an airplane."
"What if they were flying in a plane and the volcano erupted and the lava shot up and killed them all!"
"That would be ...tragic."
"Yeah, that would be awesome."
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To divert the conversation a bit more from Sam's misunderstanding of the word "tragic" I brought up YouTube and did a search on "volcanos." This brought up many pleasingly amazing videos, which Sam watched with interest. At one point, though, I had to leave the room for a few minutes to attend to Mandy, and when I came back I found that Sam had apparently clicked through to a series of "related videos" to see more at the end of each clip. And just so you know, YouTube somehow thinks the subjects volcanos, swine flu, Perez Hilton, Sailor Moon, and evil chipmunks are related through some mysterious logic. Consider Sam's horizons expanded.
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Mandy continues to push the boundaries of our household rules and common sense, as is listed clearly in her current job description. Her latest thing is climbing, so it's not unusual for me to come into a room and find her halfway up to the ceiling thanks to some ramshackle scaffolding consisting of toy boxes, bouncy balls, and wicker. We are working on this. Hopefully we will not need the assistance of gravity to teach any lessons.
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Posted by shawn on October 25, 2009 12:17 PM:
Well the apple did not fall far from the tree as you were quite the little monkey yourself!
Posted by Jamie on October 25, 2009 7:31 PM:
Tell me about it.
Posted by Patti on November 9, 2009 8:29 PM:
Haven't had any observations of the obvious from the virtual peanut gallery lately? Well we can reset the calendar starting ....
Sam is so tall. And Mandy is so not just a little girl anymore. Heart.
... now.