Jake and two buddies from school are all doing Summerbridge Activities workbooks this summer. As their prize for completing the first month's activities, we're having an ice cream party at TCBY this Friday.
This morning Jake was fighting swords against some invisible assailant. I wanted him to go ahead and do his workbook page for the day, so we'd be done with it. Here's how this conversation went.
Me: Jake, let's do Summerbridge. It's your last page this month, then you'll get to go get ice cream.
Jake: Arrgghhhh...[thud]
Me: [look around to see what fell]
Jake: [on floor with sword "stuck" in chest, eyes closed, tongue stuck out]
Me: Umm, Jake? Don't you want to be able to get ice cream with your friends?
Jake: [opens eyes to roll them at me] But I'm dead.
The Quigley Word of The Day:
ma·ca·bre
Pronunciation: m&-'käb; -'kä-br&, -b&r; -'käbr&
Function: adjective
Etymology: French, from (danse) macabre dance of death, from Middle French (danse de) Macabré
1 : having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death
2 : dwelling on the gruesome
3 : tending to produce horror in a beholder
Example: My son's macabre games always end with him on the floor, sword in chest, tongue lolling out of mouth.
This morning Jake was fighting swords against some invisible assailant. I wanted him to go ahead and do his workbook page for the day, so we'd be done with it. Here's how this conversation went.
Me: Jake, let's do Summerbridge. It's your last page this month, then you'll get to go get ice cream.
Jake: Arrgghhhh...[thud]
Me: [look around to see what fell]
Jake: [on floor with sword "stuck" in chest, eyes closed, tongue stuck out]
Me: Umm, Jake? Don't you want to be able to get ice cream with your friends?
Jake: [opens eyes to roll them at me] But I'm dead.
The Quigley Word of The Day:
ma·ca·bre
Pronunciation: m&-'käb; -'kä-br&, -b&r; -'käbr&
Function: adjective
Etymology: French, from (danse) macabre dance of death, from Middle French (danse de) Macabré
1 : having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death
2 : dwelling on the gruesome
3 : tending to produce horror in a beholder
Example: My son's macabre games always end with him on the floor, sword in chest, tongue lolling out of mouth.
1 Comments:
We're doing the Summerbridge thing with Sweet Pea too. I really like the way those are set up!
I can't believe you had the nerve to cause poor Jake such distress over it though! How could you? LOL. Atleast you know that the theatre camp paid off though! ;-)
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