GRIZZLY PEAR
We spent the a day at the New Children’s Museum in San Diego, filled with cool installation pieces. The highlight is Whammock! by Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdam.
Last time we went was before the pandemic, when the boy was 18 months old. He’s now her age then. He took to this piece like a fish in water. Life took a long pause but kept moving regardless.
he messed around
on and off
run around
knock the bowl of the table
rice and corian
everywhere
mama yelling
boy crying
no snacks for a week!
sister got her popsicle
he announced
我今天要一个popsicle或者看姐姐有一个popsicle!
(Today, I wanted a popsicle, or watch sister have a popsicle!)
grandma
cooking lunch,
watching a drama,
charging the ipad
the long cord swept
a salt shaker
off the counter
no snacks for grandma!
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sluggish suffocation
golden carriage
stingy stop
A few weeks ago, I got into a conversation about zines and d.w. sent me a couple! I printed out the emails with the kids to make the books.
A single sheet of paper, a few folds, one cut, and voila! an eight page book.
The kids delayed dinner so they could color their new zines.
He noticed a blue pouch in the medicine cabinet.
“hey! that’s our old blue bag.”
I grabbed it.
“what’s in the bag!?”
I giggled.
“what’s in it?“
I ran to the kitchen.
“They want to see what’s in the pouch!”
they gave chase!
“give us the bag!”
Mama calmly said,
“That’s daddy’s medicine, put the pouch away.”
they asked,
“what’s in the bag?”
“There’s nothing to see.”
(it’s why there’s only two of them)
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earth arrive
lake approach
spring award
Last week, we got a wooden mannequin at Ikea.
He lay straight in a plastic tube.
The kids called him RIP Mr. Little Wooden Guy.
Mama took him out of the cylindrical coffin.
He’s a stiff little fellow; his hips don’t rotate.
The kids danced with him around the house.
I bought someone to draw.
A figure who wouldn’t run away.
The kids gave him a little headband.
But I wanted someone who can do a full range of poses.
A mannequin who could do the Eight Brocades.
The kids hinted that Mr. Little Wooden Guy would love to have a friend.
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scruffy
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pines
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Rainbow
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shock and mud
The boy’s craft table had a ribbon of markers in holders of toilet paper rolls. Mama glued them together in groups of four and six. It’s a nice modular system that the kids decorated with markers.
he ran into the kitchen without underwear
Mama told me to grab one from the dryer
he ran to the laundry
Mama told me to watch him
Make sure he doesn’t pull out all the clothes!
M-A-M-A 我每天是 careful 的!
(M-A-M-A I’m careful every day!)
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yellow ears
gold handles
happy tripod
The kids created their own “little house” inside the playroom. The fluorescent green circles are teleportation stations between rooms. They debated about making this an amusement park but chose a domestic setting.
he discovered
plastic baby syringes
in a drawer of oddments
she dripped
shimmering glass beads
along her forearm
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truth lagoon
merit thunder
magic cheeks