Star Student

Here is Bluet's completed star student form. I asked her on two different occasions what her favourite colour is and she said 'orange' so that must be accurate. And she is obsessed with 'in the night garden' and fruit. But she has never watched a film, so we had to leave that blank. We then let Bluet decorate the form.

Conversation #4

This morning as I was looking for something for Bluet to wear she told me 'I need my Cardinals shirt'. Fortunately it was clean and in the drawer so I put it on her. She then ran about saying 'Go Cardinals'. You would think there was some kind of big game tonight or something.

IKEA arrow day

Earlier this week we passed an arrow and Bluet asked 'what's that' so I told her. I didn't think much of it, but this morning we went for a walk and Bluet was fascinated by all the arrows she saw. It was difficult to get her down from the big arrow - a feat only possible by promising we would see more arrows. You will notice that Bluet also has a rather fine pair of new wellies with ladybird faces on them. She no longer wants to wear any other shoes. As you can see. Later on we went to Ikea, and Bluet took off the boots in order to lie in the bed. After that, we went to the Children's Museum which had all sorts of halloween activities set up. Bluet painted her own face and really enjoyed 'trick or treating' the people who work at the museum, who were giving sweets to all the kids. So far, she has eaten one trick-or-treated chocolate.

Ikea arrow!

Where's Bluet?

There she is!

Where's Bluet?

There she is!

Conversation #3

The other day, from the back of the car

"Mama, mama I need your help"

"What is it?"

"What does 'taxi' start with?"

Star Student

This week they introduced a new feature at school - star student. For some reason that remains a mystery to us Bluet was not the inaugural star student (to be honest we'd give it to her every week, but I suppose that wouldn't be 'fair' or something. Anyway, the first we heard about it was when Bluet put a napkin round her neck and told us she was the star student. Next day at school we saw the actual star student documentation, which was for some other kid. Anyway, this star student thing has so much captured Bluet's attention that once she worked out you had to behave to be star student, she has behaved impeccably - no running in class, using 2 hands to drink her water etc. this attention to detail has paid off and Bluet, thanks to her supreme effort has been named star pupil for next week. We asked her what you get for being star student and she told us 'a cloak' which explains the wearing a napkin around the neck. Anyway now we have to fill in this form. I hope she enjoys her cloak. 

Conversation #1 & 2

Conversation #1

Did you go to the Zoo?

"Yes"

What did you see at the Zoo?

"I press the bobcat"

What did the bobcat say?

"Roooooaaaarrrr!"

This was after she visited the Zoo with Nana and Wayne, several weeks ago. She still remembers, and pressed the bobcat again this weekend. 

Conversation #2

Also related to Nana and Wayne's visit:

"Go away fly" (as we are walking, Bluet on my shoulders, last week, a fly flies into Bluet's face)

"It's not a spider"

"I saw a jumping spider"

This was when we went looking for alligators with Nana and Wayne, also several weeks ago. 

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Bluet really wanted us to buy her this cap. But, wrong team (not the Mets)

This Sunday we were kind of bored, so we decided to hop on the train and go to the last baseball game of the season - the baseball stadium is one of the few places of interest you can get to on the train. So we headed downtown on the train (we told Bluet we were going on an adventure). We had lunch in a place where a couple of old men were playing jazz on a piano and saxophone, which entertained Bluet greatly. Then we walked over to Minute Maid Park to watch the big game - it was the Astros vs the Yankees, so the stadium was full of obnoxious expat New Yorkers, the kind of people we are normally glad to not meet here. Anyway they all went crazy because it was the last ever game for Mariano Rivera before he retired, so we got to hear a ceremony hagiographying him before the game (and he doesn't even play for the Astros, he's a Yankee). However, Bluet joined in with every round of applause during the ceremony, which were a lot because of all the Yankee fans. Then we settled down for 9 innings of baseball. We did not expect to make it that long, but with the help of some ice cream served in a baseball hat (and a quick game thanks to some inept hitting from both sides) we did (see photo). Unfortunately the stupid Yankees scored a run to tie the game so it went into extra innings, and we decided that we would skip the very end of the game and take Bluet home. Which is good as the Yankees eventually scored and won the game, which is no fun.

Of course, this was actually Bluet's second trip to a baseball game - when she was very small Emily got free tickets to the Mets and took her to see them play the Marlins. There is a slightly bigger chance that she will remember this trip in the future.