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the_rckYesterday, I took Cordelia out to buy a birthday present for the party she's been invited to. I also bought a few groceries. We ended up eating at McDonalds. I'd originally suggested Baskin Robbins, but Cordelia saw the McDonalds and wanted a milkshake. I got us food because I was hungry and because I was really, really hoping that Scott would call to say he was on his way home. I wanted to avoid taking the bus home and having to deal with the full wire cart on the bus.
The delays didn't help. We took the bus home and climbed the big hill. I need to get a copy of the #1 and #2 bus schedules for my purse. The full schedule is too heavy, but I need those two. The #1 avoids the big hill but only runs once every half hour. The #2 lets us out at the bottom of the hill but comes every fifteen minutes. I guessed wrong and waited for the #2. The #1 came first, but we were way too far away, across a street and down the block a bit, to run for it, even if my ankle weren't cranky and we weren't pulling a cart behind us (Yes, my elbow was cranky about the cart. My own stupid fault).
Scott, Cordelia and I have gradually been watching the original Star Wars movies. The little boy down the street who Cordelia plays with most afternoons has seen the movies and is passionate about them (he has two older brothers. I suspect that's why he's seen them). She already knew that they were important movies for her Daddy, and she asked if she was old enough to see them. I had some hesitations because she tends to scare easily, but we've taken it slowly, about half an hour at a time, and have watched with all three of us together on the loveseat so that she has strong parental presence.
We've gotten up through Luke's arrival on Dagobah in ESB. We watched that last night. Looking at both movies, the part so far that's scared Cordelia the most was the light saber duel between Obi-wan and Darth Vader. She couldn't watch it. I think that other things have scared her, too, but a lot of what worried me has gone over her head.
Scott had reservations about going on to ESB, but Cordelia insisted. She even found a little ESB book at the Friends of the Library book sale and has been trying to follow along. The book summarizes everything and is half illustrations, so she's not doing too badly as long as we help a bit. I think Scott likes it because he can use it to explain what's going on to her.
The delays didn't help. We took the bus home and climbed the big hill. I need to get a copy of the #1 and #2 bus schedules for my purse. The full schedule is too heavy, but I need those two. The #1 avoids the big hill but only runs once every half hour. The #2 lets us out at the bottom of the hill but comes every fifteen minutes. I guessed wrong and waited for the #2. The #1 came first, but we were way too far away, across a street and down the block a bit, to run for it, even if my ankle weren't cranky and we weren't pulling a cart behind us (Yes, my elbow was cranky about the cart. My own stupid fault).
Scott, Cordelia and I have gradually been watching the original Star Wars movies. The little boy down the street who Cordelia plays with most afternoons has seen the movies and is passionate about them (he has two older brothers. I suspect that's why he's seen them). She already knew that they were important movies for her Daddy, and she asked if she was old enough to see them. I had some hesitations because she tends to scare easily, but we've taken it slowly, about half an hour at a time, and have watched with all three of us together on the loveseat so that she has strong parental presence.
We've gotten up through Luke's arrival on Dagobah in ESB. We watched that last night. Looking at both movies, the part so far that's scared Cordelia the most was the light saber duel between Obi-wan and Darth Vader. She couldn't watch it. I think that other things have scared her, too, but a lot of what worried me has gone over her head.
Scott had reservations about going on to ESB, but Cordelia insisted. She even found a little ESB book at the Friends of the Library book sale and has been trying to follow along. The book summarizes everything and is half illustrations, so she's not doing too badly as long as we help a bit. I think Scott likes it because he can use it to explain what's going on to her.
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Date: 2008-09-25 02:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-25 01:34 pm (UTC)The light saber battle actually had her turning her back to the TV to bury her head in the cushions as she said, "I don't want to watch this. It's too scary."
Of course, being a worrier, I worry about the stuff that she doesn't tell us is scary, the stuff that might lurk and come out in dreams. I know that there are sometimes things that scare her that she won't talk about and just pushes away. (That happened with a book that had a girl whose parents had been gone for years because her mother was sick. Her parents had left to try to find a cure for the mother. Cordelia read that and put the book down. She never picked it up again. I think it was too scary given that her mother is almost always sick.)
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Date: 2008-09-26 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-01 01:48 pm (UTC)According to the librarian at Cordelia's school, Star Wars books-- the ones aimed at beginning readers-- are hugely popular.