Abstractions – Sydney Shimko

Today’s 2 Funny Stories

Thursday, August 26th, 2010

Story #1: With the remodel in progress, we’ve moved the kids to their room upstairs while Jason and I are still sleeping downstairs. So after 4 and a half years of having kiddos in our lives, we finally broke down and bought a baby monitor. On a separate note, when we sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to Tarek earlier this month, he didn’t really get it. Since then it’s been growing on him. This morning we woke up to this coming out of the baby monitor:
Tarek (singing): Happy Birthday to Taaaaarek. Haa-
Maia (interupting): Tarek, quiet … stop singing. I’m trying to sleep!

Story #2: Maia is a little obsessed with President Obama. She recognizes his voice on the radio and gets excited if she sees a picture of him. Today, the kids and I were standing in line at Alterra coffee shop and Maia yelled, “Mama, look … Obama.” I was instantly embarrassed and sheepishly looked around the room for the unsuspecting man who was just falsely accused of being President Obama. Instead, and to my relief, I realized that she saw a photo of him on a greeting card and there was no actual doppelgänger in the room.

Maia’s remodel

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

new kitchen, originally uploaded by Sydney Shimko.

Remember the stove and refrigerator we made this spring? Maia just told Jason that she put them on Craigslist.

“Mom look at my cow!”

Thursday, August 19th, 2010

"Mom look at my cow!", originally uploaded by Sydney Shimko.

“this is where the milk comes out. ”

Counting Sheep

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Maia: Mom, I just can’t sleep because my brother is talking. I’m counting sheep and … I’m counting lambs and I’m counting [pause to count on her fingers] cows and I’m counting [pause] pigs and I’m counting farmers, but it just won’t work.

Leggos – look at the box

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Leggos – look at the box, originally uploaded by Sydney Shimko.

Maia: “Mama, I made the house, the airplane, the car, and the tree for the man!”

A little while after taking this photo, she built some new pieces and said, “now look at my body of work.” I asked her how she knew what that meant and she answered, “it’s an expression.”

I don’t know where she learns so much.