Tuesday, January 13, 2009

She May Not Look It But She's Thrilled...

Jane met Jean-Michel Cousteau this evening. She arrived to the theater early with me and met him backstage not knowing who he or his father was and then sat through an hour and a half lecture enthralled.

Then she patiently waited for another hour until all of our guests secured their autographs and photos. She was the very last one. He told her that he was surprised to see her so late "you were there when I arrived and now you will walk me out!"





Now Jane wants to learn to scuba dive because her friend Jean-Michel said she should and because she is ten is now legally old enough to do so. And, then she can swim with whales and sharks and pink dolphins and help to save the oceans.

Because her friend Jean-Michel said she could.

And then she came home and fell fast asleep. And now I'm pretty sure she's dreaming about her ocean adventures. Because that's what I did when I was ten years old after watching Jacques Cousteau aboard the Calypso on my television. But I never imagined I'd ever meet him or one of his sons.

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Monday, December 29, 2008

Ahhhh....


4:45pm last night from the deck. Beautiful.
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Oh Tannenbaum...


pre-Christmas eve - almost ready for chaos!
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Sunday, December 21, 2008

The New Rage in Fifth Grade: Chuck Norris jokes...





Chuck Norris doesn't get frost-bite...he bites frost.

When Chuck Norris does a pushup - doesn't push him self up - he pushes the Earth down.

Chuck Norris CAN believe it's not butter.

When Chuck Norris falls into water, he doesn't get wet - the water gets Chuck Norris'd.

Some people wear Superman pj's but Superman wears Chuck Norris pj's.

Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.

Chuck Norris doesn't sleep - he waits.

It takes Chuck Norris twenty minutes to watch 60 Minutes.

- more to come!

Jane

Holiday Concert at Putnam School of Science

This was taken at Jane's school holiday concert. They were singing Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree and were really getting into it! For some reason I couldn't meter this photo properly to fix the light in the school gym. [sorry it's so dark!]


Taken before leaving for school on Friday morning - check out the cool mountain woman coat and boots!


And, this is what she wore under her mountain woman attire for her holiday concert. She was very sparkly!


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