Another Day...

Ok, maybe not DAILY, but I’m doing the best I can. Sometimes I can’t find a minute to sit here and write this out and other times…well, the day is so boring, what could I write about? Today was not boring!

This morning we got moving. The boys do so much better when we have our lessons in the morning and then spend the rest of the day playing. So I got up and got my chores done and got on the lessons. Bible study, Reading, Copy Work, and then the DHL guy came with our cool new science book and the boys HAD to have science NOW! We got Real Science 4 Kids – Chemistry Pre-Level I. It is great! Today we described two objects while just looking at them and then we got out the magnifying glass and took a closer look. Once again the boys showed how different their personalities are. Jake had many descriptive words, including ones about taste. He ate the apple, felt the apple, looked at the apple, all the while telling me all the different things he noticed. He even drew a picture. Then I went to Tom. “What do you mean describe it? You can see it?” he says. So I start asking questions to get him to really think. He traced both of his objects. He wanted to read the book. So we did. It told us about atoms and what they are. He was delighted. They spent the rest of the day asking each other what things were made of and when one answered “wood” or “metal” the other would say “no, atoms!”.

We went to our weekly park day with our group and that proved to be beneficial. It was hotter today than yesterday, but the clouds had gone away, so it was nice. Every time I got hot, the boys would run over and squirt me with the sprayer. We were there almost 3 hours today!

When we got home the boys jumped in the pool as usual. When they got out we finished our Math and Literature lesson (we are reading and re-telling Aesop’s Fables). Then Dad came out of his office and we ordered Pizza! Yay! We watched Mythbusters and Pee-Wee’s Playhouse. The boys had to go out to the yard and hang from the tree some more while I watered the plants.

Now Jake is on the front porch because he is drawing something that he needs to see the front of the house to do. Tom is playing Ping Pong with the TV, crazy game. Me? I’m ready for bed, but it is too hot upstairs to even think about it yet. Yuck!