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Geosphere Puzzle Lamp

[Taken August 18, 2018 at 7:18PM]

In the interest of getting off of social media and back into blogging more regularly, I’m testing yet another quick way to blog from my phone: this time, cutting Instagram out of my photo-posting loop.

The above photo shows the puzzle lamp I bought my son at the local science center… which, much like his new Rubik’s Cube, he had no interest in solving once he got it. It’s actually really cool, though, once you get the hang of how to assemble it. (And once you watch — and pause — a few YouTube videos.)

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First Grade!

[Taken August 20, 2018 at 6:53AM]

He was the first to arrive at Extended Time before school this morning, and complained to me this evening that all he could do was play dollhouse with the few girls who showed up until they opened the gym. I’m planning to let him bring a toy and a book tomorrow, just for before school.

Apart from that, and us not knowing he’d need an afternoon snack from home, the first day of First Grade sounds like it was a good one.

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Blogging With Consent

Sometimes, if Connor can keep himself on task at bedtime, I’ll let him play a game of Two Dots on my phone before we read a bedtime story. Last night was one of those nights.

As the app was launching up, he read aloud the random message that popped up about connecting your game to Facebook to sync your progress. He didn’t quite get the word “sync” right, but he got the idea, especially since he understands that people share pictures and videos and stories with one another on Facebook. When I explained to him that I didn’t really want to connect everything to Facebook, he asked why not.

“Well,” I explained, “I don’t need Facebook to know everything about me. I mean, I already have my own website, where I share things about my flowers and about you–”

He lit up, and immediately wanted to see.

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