SING A SONG AND SMILE - A SINGING PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP

Practice, Perfect and Perform your favourite song in one day

Brighton Unitarian Church, New Road, Saturday 19th April 10am-4.30pm.

• Nick Andrews - Musical Director
• Becky Rocheleau - Performance Director

The cost for Performers is £55 and Observers £15.

To book your place or for more information contact Becky on
07957 133317 or rocheleau@hotmail.co.uk

 Daddy

Sand flowers and leafs

Jellyfish are flowing

Flowers are pittering down from the sky

Rain makes everything glittery

Steam makes you hot when you have flowers

You make everything great for me daddy

and I love when you give me kisses

I want for you tonight to bring me something that you like

I love you daddy

xxxx

she designed, i carved. brilliant!

a lot.  he’s probably 9 pounds by now, has had his first set of shots, and is generally doing very well.  he sleeps, eats, and excretes, which as a parent is more exciting than it ought to be, but what it means to us is he’s growing and healthy : )

thursday morning, 21 september. at home, 5 weeks early. beck and bean and i delivered him by ourselves. or, rather, he delivered himself while we ‘helped’ : )

his name is joseph james rocheleau. he’s doing great : )

fresh pod

bean and pod

pod with tube

bean cuddling pod

bean celebrating with her rain dance

looks better than gehry’s stuff to me.

this is mary. pretty much bean’s favorite “baby” doll, although annabel runs a close second.

bean and i went to the beach, in lancing.  it was great.  we swam a little, built some sand castles (bean built about 10 of ‘em, with rocks) and just relaxed.  she has such a great time, she was shouting at the top of her lungs “I LOVE THIS PLACE AND THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER”.  i love to see her so happy and expressive, she is very LOUD but i think that’s because she’s very ENGAGED.  she just kills me, she does.

that’s what bean calls shrimp. yesterday she took off all her clothes and sat in a bucket of water in the back garden. it was hot hot hot. i wish i coulda done the same.

is over here,  fellow  montessori-esque parent and  tech .  we are collaborating (clobbering?) a new site for bean’s monty-school.  he’s started playing with wordpress, too.  i forget how i found it but mit had something to do with incoming link thing or something.

what have i done?

not much, really.  it will be interesting to see what we come up with, though.

“i didn’t hit anyone.”

that’s what bean told becky when becky picked her up from school yesterday. apparently, some kid at school named harvey  ‘punched her in the stomach’ at some point, and she’s retaliated, but didn’t feel the need to yesterday.

sometimes, i worry.  and laugh : )

bean’s faaaavorite.  we have to watch her closely.  she’s like, bean’s national treasure or something.  life stops if she gets left somewhere, like nanna’s.  bean still chews her feet a little sometimes.

have been pooping in my garden. i think one might be camped out under the summer house in the back. seeing as that’s where most of the poop is. becky put some milk and bread out for it the other night, but i am not sure if that’s what they like to eat. it’s eating something, though, judging from the piles of poo all over the place.

i hate electric lawn mowers. i always pitied anyone i saw using one in the US, as it was almost always some old lady with varicose veins, white socks, and green PF flyers who would actually stoop to using one. but it’s de rigueur here in the UK. i have a flymo. it’s supposed to hover. what it actually does is, like, wobble and scrape the squidgy lawn vegetables that pass for turf. and hedgehog poop. anyway.

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have come back to bother jim. it looks pretty peeved and vengeful to me. i’d be careful out in the yard if i were you.

then again, maybe it’s like the white buffalo, but it’s the white squirrel instead.  a harbinger of things to come.  better offer it a peanut, just in case.

is the strawberry of my eye. she’s 3 years 4 months now, and even though every day i tell her i couldn’t love her more, i do. she’s just the best.

are going to be my obsession this summer.  i just know it. bean and i built one and beck, bean and i went down to the beach and flew it.  we made it out of bamboo, wrapping paper, string, and trash bags.  it was kinda wobbly but then it kind of broke a little and flew just great.

i wanna build a giant one out of pvc and tyvek and fly it really really high.  will post pics of progress… .

is at her mom’s probably, picking up bean.  beck is 13 weeks pregnant with pod.  sometimes they (beck and pod) don’t smell so great but i love them both.

can use this area for posts, if he likes…

is growing.  it’s about 13 weeks old now. it smells horrible but we love her/him.