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08/09/2004 Archived Entry: "Dig This!"

Tabitha started her week of museum classes today. She's taken them the last two years, but this is the first year that it is non-parent participation. They are learning about ancient civilizations and the class will include a mock excavation which I know the child will love. They will also talk about the differences between a paleontologist and an archaeologist. It's a two hour class but a bit too far to make it worth the time or the gas to get home so I'll stay. Since Chris was off today he went with us, of course, so we walked a couple miles to a fast food place to have a greasy breakfast. It was a bit warm to walk back so we hopped the LA shuttle which took 5 minutes and dropped us off across the street from the museum. We then browsed the Science Center's air-conditioned gift shop until it was time to pick up Tabitha. As we expected she was bubbling over and thoroughly enjoyed the class. The rest of the week, I'll be hanging out with my best friend whose kids also take classes there. I borrowed books from my mom too, so I'll make the most of my two hours a day.

Speaking of books, I went to my mom's yesterday with the purpose of borrowing a book to read Tabitha since we finished The Wizard of Oz a month ago. My mom has a good collection of children's classics but the problem is, I haven't read any of them, or at least, not more than a couple chapters. They always bored me as a kid and I still prefer light reading over anything that makes me think. So I borrowed Aesop's Fables because I always loved those and also The Secret Garden, which is actually my book that was given to me one birthday. Well, I've read the first three chapters two or three times and never made it any further. So I haven't a clue how the story goes and whether or not it's appropriate to read to Tabitha. So I guess I'll be reading that for the next week before I read it to Tabs.

Here's a little something to give you an insight to my child's psyche. We finished lessons a bit later than usual this evening since she had class this morning and I had a doctor's appt. this afternoon. I was sending Tabitha off to play before bed and she asked if she could write a story. I told her she could either play or write a story and she decided to write two stories. As she was writing the first one, she was screwing around and I really didn't want to put her to bed any later than neccesary. So I told her she needed to calm down or she wouldn't be able to write her second story before bed and she sat right away. This is what constitues punishment in our house, not being allowed to write and do work, lol.