Learning to Right
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 Posted in Family, Linguistics, Lizzie | No Comments »I think it's really cute when kids are learning to write. Consider this sample from Lizzie. [caption id="attachment_77" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="I luv yoo bekuz I am yoo frnd"][/caption] It says, "I LUV YOO BEKUZ I AM YOO FRND". So cute. ...
Ptui!
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 Posted in Caleb, Emily, Family, Family Home Evening, Funnies, Lizzie, Religion | No Comments »It's a good thing that there are so many scripture stories about or involving water, because my family loves to go swimming for family night. It's easy to work in a scripture story lesson on the way to the pool. ...
Quotes of the Day
Sunday, February 10th, 2008 Posted in Emily, Family, Lizzie | No Comments »Our kids understand things. Sometimes they go out of their way to make sure that we know it. For example, at dinner a few nights ago, I said something funny. Emmi responded with, "Daddy, you're a joke!" See? ...
Boys vs. Girls
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008 Posted in Caleb, Emily, Family, Kim, Linguistics, Lizzie | 2 Comments »In one of my linguistics classes in college (amazing how often those come up, here -- you'd think I was a linguist), we talked about the ongoing debate on the topic of "nature vs. nurture." For linguistics, the argument ...
Oral Traditions
Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Emily, Family, Linguistics, Lizzie | No Comments »My kids are amazing. I'm sure yours are, too. All three of my kids are pre-readers, although I don't expect that state of affairs to continue much longer -- Lizzie in particular gets closer every day. But let's get ...
Santaless Redux
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 Posted in Family, Lizzie, Religion | 6 Comments »So, while surfing for presents for our kids, I ran across this conversation being held on Amazon.com about the very topic that I wrote about with Lizzie. Obviously, everyone has an opinion. Some people have opinions stronger than ...
Santaless?
Monday, December 10th, 2007 Posted in Family, Lizzie | 4 Comments »A few days ago, Lizzie, our precocious four year old, started asking us if Santa Claus is real. Kim kept putting her off, asking her back, "What do you think?" and that kind of thing, so that we could ...
Quotable Kids
Friday, February 9th, 2007 Posted in Emily, Family, Linguistics, Lizzie | No Comments »Here are some quotes from our adorable kids in the past few months: Lizzie: "Emmi, let's milk the elephant!" Emmi, brightly: "I'm cranky, too, Mommy!" Lizzie: "Emmi, there are no Cheerios on the ceiling!" Lizzie, singing: "Cleanup! Cleanup! Everybody do your share! ...
Learning linguistics keeps us in stitches
Thursday, July 6th, 2006 Posted in Emily, Family, Linguistics, Lizzie | No Comments »I love hearing my kids learn English. Every day they teach me something about how the language works, either by being surprisingly perspicacious or by making unintentional mistakes. I took two semesters of linguistics in college as electives, and we ...
