"What was so great about it?"
"We played hand dogs."
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| Hand dog with salad. |
Hand dogs, it turns out, is more or less what is sounds like: you pretend that your hand is a dog; your friends do likewise. You walk your fingers around on the ground and talk about the incredible things your hand dog can do. (Hand dogs always have super powers, it seems.) I assume there's some dog fighting involved, possibly with dog teams?
One of the great things about being here is that the kids have come up with really interesting ways of amusing themselves. Hand dogs are just the start. Here are a few things the kids have made in Mexico.
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| Soaps! Cinnamon, apple, and orange. Hecho por Wilhelmina. |
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| Oscar blew some eggs and started making people. This is the first one, Eggy. Eggy has a recliner, a tv, and a bowl of popcorn (a bottle cap filled with white paper confetti). |
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| Wilhelmina's terrarium, made from a cake case. |
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| The kids started these scarves at school and finished them at home. |
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| Wilhelmina's elaborate valentine. |
The morning of the day my book was officially released, the kids surprised me with some wonderful things (besides coffee).
Not shown: Oscar's volcano and his army base; Wilhelmina's dress book and scrap book; Candle City (area in the back of the house where plastic soldiers and candles commingle in a messy, melty martial paradise); the Room of Requirement (a tiny room with a separate entrance, meant for a servant, that the kids have turned into an all-purpose secret clubhouse).
The kids watch a lot of TV, spend a lot of time on the computer (so do Sean and I)...and they also do some very cool things, here.
The "Breaking News" from Jabberwocky Press might just be one of the coolest things ever, Kirstin! The folks in Boston are going to have a hard time topping the heart-felt message from Wilhelmina (not that it's a competition, of course).
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ps With those scarves Oscar and Wilhelmina could join an indigenous parade and blend right in!
We're all looking forward to seeing you soon!
DeleteYes...coolio! When you come back through Arizona I'm hoping you will do a reading here in Sierra Vista! Unless, of course, you are exhausted by then from the Jay Leno show and all...in which case you could walk around town incognito in one of the scarves?
ReplyDeleteIt's weird to try to imagine what state we'll be in as we drag ourselves back over the border...but we'll be happy to see you guys.
DeleteWonderful, all of it--and you didn't even include Oscar's brownie-making business venture! I look forward to seeing them open a shop in SLC, maybe a mix of locally made items and some import-export, too.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to imagine that enterprise. I don't think we could count on family discounts; to maximize his profits, Oscar has already discontinued free samples in the kitchen and fired Wilhelmina (she was doing the packaging).
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