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This week Cora finished her last day of 3YO preschool. The teachers had a little commencement ceremony for the children with diplomas and all. This was the first commencement I’d ever attended where the graduates sang “I’m a Little Teapot” before they got their certificates and, let me tell you, those little scholars knew that song backwards and forwards! Great work, class of ’06.
Tina might be amused at the title of this entry. Everyone else might be amused by something Cora said recently.
I’m going to be a ballerina instead of just a girl in a dress.
That’s my girl. I’ve always aspired to be a great stay-home dad and not just a guy who doesn’t go to work. Similar sentiment.
Cora turned four years old today! Tina and I can’t believe that our little baby, born mere moments ago, has somehow snuck in a fourth birthday already. It’s obviously way ahead of schedule.
Cora’s Aunt Becky took us all to the National Aquarium in Baltimore today to celebrate. Pictures at Flickr.
Cora’s ability to draw has really taken off in the last couple of weeks. She can draw simple shapes and fairly straight lines. Two of her favorite subjects to draw now are daddy and pop-pop. Here’s one of daddy.
You may be able to tell that she watches a fair amount of public television by the similarity of her drawing to this PBS logo.
This is Cora in an outfit that Uncle Brad sent to her while he was stationed in Korea. It’s not a kimono, which is Japanese, but probably an example of the Korean formal dress known as hanbok. However, if I had titled this article “The Hanbok” you wouldn’t have known what I was talking about, would you?
When Uncle Brad sent this outfit Cora was much too small to wear it, but she seems to have grown into it pretty well in the intervening year, yes? The outfit ended up hanging in a closet and was only recently retrieved: these pictures show the very first time she’s tried it on.
Cora just loved the new outfit. It’s silky, it looks cool, and we say “Uncle Brad” a lot while she’s wearing it, which she likes. The shimmery smoothness of it reminds me of something worn in the movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, so I tried coaching Cora in some basic martial arts moves. The picture to the left shows her balanced on both feet ready for any attack Master Li Mu Bai and his sword, the Green Destiny, might throw at her. (Not really. It just shows her standing there. But dream with me!)
The last image shows Cora making a scary face when I told her to look tough. Nice try, kid.
