Awake

Short and sweet

Last night's meeting with Ruth was short and sweet. I couldn't quite tell why. We worked on initial consonant sounds and started in on double-consonant sounds (like "bl", "sl", "pl") when she started talking about finishing. I think (but I'm not sure) she was a little anxious about getting up at 4:30 am the next morning. But again, culturally, linguistically, I could pick up very few clues as to why she wanted to finish early. Hmm...but anyway, we checked out one piece of mail—a change in her social services agent—and she explained to me during "b is for bed" and "c is for crib" that her mom had a crib donated to her that didn't come with any screws (she didn't say "screws", she pointed to the screws on her 3 year olds kids' bed). So tomorrow I'll call over there and find out when I should come over and assemble the crib. There seem to be lots of babies in their community, so it'll definitely come in handy. (Things work pretty communally as far as child care goes.) How odd, though, that someone would donate an unassembled crib with no screws? Something's amiss. Maybe something will come to light on Saturday.

I also hope to find out that I do in fact have the capability of assembling a crib. Maybe I should bring some duct tape. Just kidding!