ION I just cut Casper's favorite, way-too-small jeans into Daisy Dukes for her. @@ at self.
Does anybody else miss the Mayor? 'I just want to be a big snake.'
Xander ,'End of Days'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
flea - Jun 20, 2013 7:00:55 am PDT #26523 of 30001
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Jessica - Jun 20, 2013 7:04:16 am PDT #26524 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
flea, that's awesome. How old is Dillo?
And more importantly so I can brag about my own kids, how do you look up a book's Lexile?
flea - Jun 20, 2013 7:07:47 am PDT #26525 of 30001
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Dillo will be 7 in 3 weeks.
Lexiles: [link] - search box for titles in the top corner. You have to dig a bit under "about" to find the lexile-to-grade-level correspondence, and there are useful caveats: [link]
Jessica - Jun 20, 2013 7:08:30 am PDT #26526 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Oooooh!
I didn't realize he and Dylan were so close in age. (Within a year, anyway.) I always think of your kids as way older than mine for some reason.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 20, 2013 7:08:32 am PDT #26527 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Is this a good deal? Can I do better someplace else? Does furniture from Pottery Barn have a rep?
Tom, that's very pricey for a banker's chair. I was looking for some online a couple years ago and turned up natural wood finish options that ran about $140 (ultimately found a local option on sale for $99 that I could pick up myself). When I get home from work I'll check my old shopping bookmarks and see if I can turn up any current links for you.
flea - Jun 20, 2013 7:13:53 am PDT #26528 of 30001
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Well, a year is a long time when you're a baby. It's actually still a long time at 5-6 for many kids - Dillo's class was K-1 this year, and you could mostly pick the Ks from the 1s just by watching them (and not by size, but by how they acted.) A couple of K parents would always compliment me on how well Dillo behaved at the playground after school, and I would always be like, "He is a whole year older than your kid! That is 20% of your life when you are 5!"
DavidS - Jun 20, 2013 7:15:02 am PDT #26529 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Too braggy for Facebook: Dillo just sat down and read a picture book (The Bake Shop Ghost, one of my favorites) and I thought to myself, "That's a hard book," so I looked up the Lexile and it's an 880! Which is about the 50th percentile for 5th grade. Damn that boy can read on the very rare occasions that he actually sits down and does so.
Right the fuck on, Dillo!
Emmett's college application counselor wants him to read a book this week during the summer. So his friend/prom date Laura foisted a book on him: Looking For Alaska. He was unimpressed when I told him the author went to Kenyon.
Jessica - Jun 20, 2013 7:20:04 am PDT #26530 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
"He is a whole year older than your kid! That is 20% of your life when you are 5!"
That is a really good point. Our neighbors have a son just 6 months younger than Dylan, and there have been many periods in their lives when that tiny age difference suddenly becomes a HUGE difference developmentally.
Amy - Jun 20, 2013 7:25:24 am PDT #26531 of 30001
Because books.
So his friend/prom date Laura foisted a book on him: Looking For Alaska.
Ben loved it. He wanted to know what else John Green had written aside from that and The Fault in Our Stars.
billytea - Jun 20, 2013 7:28:33 am PDT #26532 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Well, a year is a long time when you're a baby. It's actually still a long time at 5-6 for many kids
This is much on our mind right now, as this month we'll be deciding whether to enrol Ryan in school next year. He was born bang on the cutoff date, so in theory at least, he has the choice of either being the youngest in his class, or the oldest. (In practice, I expect there'll be some older redshirts.) His kindergarten supports him going next year; we have a preschool field officer (which is a thing, apparently) coming out to provide a second opinion.