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Sep. 14th, 2024 07:00 amI've got about 10min to decide whether or not to go to ParkRun this morning. Toddler is awake so I'd be pushing a heavy stroller, plus it's over 75 degrees and 100% humidity so it would feel like running through a soupy swamp. There's promise of cooler weather tomorrow and beyond, so all my will is seeping away quicker than sand through a funnel.
This level of humidity and heat is just miserable to run in. You're drenched in sweat but you can't cool down. It's gross and you feel gross. I can't wait for the humidity to break and my runs to actually feel nice again. I had a brief taste of that midweek, when it cooled down to 72F, but...
Okay yeah, I've talked myself out of it. Hah. I'll take Toddler for a walk when the sun rises instead. He's been very keen on sunrise ever since I took them both with me to a photography meet-up a month or so ago.
Cabin Girl has become obsessed with Animorphs. I've had six of them on our bookshelf for forever because they were my favorite series as a kid and CG has occasionally taken them down to look at the pictures and the little flipbook at the bottom corner of each page. She finally asked us to read the first one to her back in July and I was like, okay, but it could be a little scary so let us know... aaand now she's hooked. When we had a babysitter back in August, CG spent at least an hour outlining the plot and explaining how each book had a different POV.
She's even started reading the first one on her own. We're on the eighth at this point (I had to go source more from a secondhand place) with no flagging of interest in sight. I'm a little worried because the series goes pretty dark around book 20, but I figure we'll handle that when we get there. Maybe we won't be able to find the rest of the series for a while. :|
That said, her enthusiasm is so wonderful. I had to admit, I was starting to worry a little, as other kids in her age group were starting to read on their own and without prompting and she was more interested in TV shows and computer games. Not that those are bad things, but as an author and once voracious child reader, I have a vested interest in giving her every opportunity to also enjoy books. Animorphs at 8 seems a little young, but also I remember anything I wasn't ready for just going over my head at that age. Definitely being older and having a lot more experience in the world has made those books 100x more horrifying, but she doesn't have that baggage.
Besides, for some reason I never finished reading the series. So maybe I'll finally have the chance.
In other Kai Is Not Trying to Impart All of Her Formative Childhood Interests on Her Children, She Swears News, CG and I started playing Half-Life together a week or two ago. We've played both Portal 1 and 2 already, as well as some other, more child-friendly games, but she'd heard about HL from a friend and kept asking me to play it. I warned her it was scary and not really age-appropriate, but she watched a little gameplay and was fine and actually seems to really enjoy the jump-scares.
It's also meant talking a little about the morality and ethics of experimenting on alien creatures, and who actually is the bad guy in this scenario, and when is it justified to take otherwise unjustifiable action... who said video games couldn't be educational?
Anyway, it's been a fun way to spend 20-30min with her each night, and then we turn around and read for almost an hour. I don't know how long this will last, but it sure is fun for now. :)
This level of humidity and heat is just miserable to run in. You're drenched in sweat but you can't cool down. It's gross and you feel gross. I can't wait for the humidity to break and my runs to actually feel nice again. I had a brief taste of that midweek, when it cooled down to 72F, but...
Okay yeah, I've talked myself out of it. Hah. I'll take Toddler for a walk when the sun rises instead. He's been very keen on sunrise ever since I took them both with me to a photography meet-up a month or so ago.
Cabin Girl has become obsessed with Animorphs. I've had six of them on our bookshelf for forever because they were my favorite series as a kid and CG has occasionally taken them down to look at the pictures and the little flipbook at the bottom corner of each page. She finally asked us to read the first one to her back in July and I was like, okay, but it could be a little scary so let us know... aaand now she's hooked. When we had a babysitter back in August, CG spent at least an hour outlining the plot and explaining how each book had a different POV.
She's even started reading the first one on her own. We're on the eighth at this point (I had to go source more from a secondhand place) with no flagging of interest in sight. I'm a little worried because the series goes pretty dark around book 20, but I figure we'll handle that when we get there. Maybe we won't be able to find the rest of the series for a while. :|
That said, her enthusiasm is so wonderful. I had to admit, I was starting to worry a little, as other kids in her age group were starting to read on their own and without prompting and she was more interested in TV shows and computer games. Not that those are bad things, but as an author and once voracious child reader, I have a vested interest in giving her every opportunity to also enjoy books. Animorphs at 8 seems a little young, but also I remember anything I wasn't ready for just going over my head at that age. Definitely being older and having a lot more experience in the world has made those books 100x more horrifying, but she doesn't have that baggage.
Besides, for some reason I never finished reading the series. So maybe I'll finally have the chance.
In other Kai Is Not Trying to Impart All of Her Formative Childhood Interests on Her Children, She Swears News, CG and I started playing Half-Life together a week or two ago. We've played both Portal 1 and 2 already, as well as some other, more child-friendly games, but she'd heard about HL from a friend and kept asking me to play it. I warned her it was scary and not really age-appropriate, but she watched a little gameplay and was fine and actually seems to really enjoy the jump-scares.
It's also meant talking a little about the morality and ethics of experimenting on alien creatures, and who actually is the bad guy in this scenario, and when is it justified to take otherwise unjustifiable action... who said video games couldn't be educational?
Anyway, it's been a fun way to spend 20-30min with her each night, and then we turn around and read for almost an hour. I don't know how long this will last, but it sure is fun for now. :)
