Reading Speeds...
Nov. 19th, 2004 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI dropped Omaha off at her classes and headed over to Bed, Bath & Beyond to pick up a few things. Our humidifier had died as a result of overuse and a general ignorance about how to maintain the things, and we had burned out yet another Braun Multiquick blender-stick, and that's one of those things our household can't live without.
I got to the store and found that the price for a Multiquick with all the accessories was $30, which was only $4 more than the cheapest on-line store wanted for just the power unit after shipping and handling were calculated in. Given that Omaha had accidentally melted the chopping bowl one day putting it on the lower rack of the dishwasher, replacing that bowl seemed like a good idea. I noticed that the blender stick itself was a bit stiff, so I swapped that around as well.
Kouryou-chan and I played a few games of Ker-Plunk, had ice cream cones, and then we got ready for bed. She was actually pretty good about getting ready for bed. She read to me from Dr. Seuss's I Can Read With My Eyes Shut, and she read to me at a very good reading speed. It was almost conversational in tone, too. She's mastering the art of reading to other people, which is very, very cool. I read to her a bit from Charlotte's Webcam and then I put her to bed.
She wouldn't leave me alone. On the drive back from dropping Omaha off she'd fallen asleep and had about a 40-minute nap; that was just enough to convince her brain that she didn't need to go to sleep. Since I had half an hour between her bedtime and mine, I was hoping to get in watching some anime that isn't kid appropriate (At first I couldn't decide between DearS and Gunslinger Girls, but I decided on DearS), but she kept coming downstairs. *Sigh*. So ultimately I had to let her sleep in my bed and went to sleep myself anyway.
I got to the store and found that the price for a Multiquick with all the accessories was $30, which was only $4 more than the cheapest on-line store wanted for just the power unit after shipping and handling were calculated in. Given that Omaha had accidentally melted the chopping bowl one day putting it on the lower rack of the dishwasher, replacing that bowl seemed like a good idea. I noticed that the blender stick itself was a bit stiff, so I swapped that around as well.
Kouryou-chan and I played a few games of Ker-Plunk, had ice cream cones, and then we got ready for bed. She was actually pretty good about getting ready for bed. She read to me from Dr. Seuss's I Can Read With My Eyes Shut, and she read to me at a very good reading speed. It was almost conversational in tone, too. She's mastering the art of reading to other people, which is very, very cool. I read to her a bit from Charlotte's Webcam and then I put her to bed.
She wouldn't leave me alone. On the drive back from dropping Omaha off she'd fallen asleep and had about a 40-minute nap; that was just enough to convince her brain that she didn't need to go to sleep. Since I had half an hour between her bedtime and mine, I was hoping to get in watching some anime that isn't kid appropriate (At first I couldn't decide between DearS and Gunslinger Girls, but I decided on DearS), but she kept coming downstairs. *Sigh*. So ultimately I had to let her sleep in my bed and went to sleep myself anyway.
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Date: 2004-11-19 08:08 pm (UTC)(Google knows nothing..)
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Date: 2004-11-19 08:13 pm (UTC)Charlotte's Webcam (http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2457&p=12) and other books not safe for children. Or work.