Revelry Reverie

Henry brought home an awesome drawing from school yesterday. I’ll try to describe it accurately. Below are close-ups of the right and left sides. Look at the range of colors! His composition is good, too (if I do say so myself). He did not write his name (obviously). On the right, we have a car…

Yesterday Henry and I played trains. Both kids are getting very actively into imaginative play. In this story, you’re just going to have to understand that any blue train is Thomas (including his Thomas train), any green train is Percy, and any red train is James. (Although, I think only an off-brand Thomas features here). So Thomas…

It turns out that Henry doesn’t know the word for “snow pants” so he called them “pants coat” instead.

Dressed as Ariel, singing as Elsa, dancing as Eleanor. Cameo by Henry.

We went with the cousins to the Buffalo Science Museum to see the Curious George exhibit.

A two-in-one: first time picking out his outfit, and first time getting himself dressed! He told me: “mama, I am handsome and pretty and an engine.”

The past few weeks I’ve been slowly working my way through a pair of articles on artificial intelligence from WaitButWhy. Here’s part one, and here is part two. I don’t usually post about articles I read – I’m not sure it would be that interesting, honestly – but I feel unsettled by the ideas here.…

Ever since Henry found out we have instruction sheets for track configurations, he asks to see “instrushuns” and stands over his tracks saying “hmm, hmm” as he leafs through them until he selects his choice and asks it be built. And then Bob invariably improves on the design.