On the next season of Project Runway….
I want to encourage goal-setting for Andrei, so I asked him what a goal was that he wanted to accomplish this week – I thought he’d say something like play video games all day or something…
Nope.
He wanted to make a shirt.
To SEW a shirt on the sewing machine.
To sew a Tshirt with a train on it.
For his friend Mo.
Yeah.
I’ve never sewn a garment, or used a pattern, or worked with knits.
We went to the store and I sent him to the knits – he picked out the colors.
I traced the pattern, he cut it.
I pinned it and set it up on the machine, he sewed it.
DH cut the train pattern, DS ironed it on, and we both painted it.
Finished product….
Yeah, so the stitches are crooked and the train is pinkish instead of red. I’m not sure it will even fit his friend, but he is so proud of it – and rightly so.
(next week I may send him toward a smaller goal…)
QOTD
Yesterday, after reading a book about eyes for school, I asked Andrei what he learned from the book.
He listed off a few things, and I asked him what happens if you can’t see? He said, “Well, if your testicles are broken, then you have to wear glasses”
!
I tried so hard not to laugh – he is so sensitive to people laughing or talking about him. I calmly asked him to repeat, and he said the same. So I said, “Do you mean optical?”
“Yeah, that’s it”
“Do you know what a testicle is?”
“Yeah….. hmm, no”
Explains….
Then he started smiling, and we both started giggling, and we both told Brent all about it when he got home – without anyone feeling bad about making a mistake.
*snicker* *testicles*
The ESL guessing game
Andrei is so close to almost there with fluency, but we still play the “what the heck is he talking about” game. Frequently it will be like – “look mom, that thing looks just like that other thing from the last time!” This could be a movie, song, event, book – the sky’s the limit. It is interesting to see the correlation, but sometimes frustrating too.
Here’s a gem from a while a go: ”Mom, we can’t forget the green thingy with all the letters that we got yesterday” It was a permission slip from last week.
Last night, tho, is what prompted this post. I almost woke Andrei up with my laughter when Brent told me. Andrei wanted to watch “that movie with the guy with the long hair who makes stuff and save the world”
Any guesses?
McGyver! ROFL! What a cute and funny kid!
hww