Oh what fun it is to teach a 5 year old the ins and outs of sarcasm. NOT.
"Christopher, is your bed made?"
"n - o. That spells no."
"Do you think maybe it's rude to spell answers at your mommy?"
"y-e-s. Daddy says my mouth is soooo smarth these days! That's because I can spell!"
"Christopher, daddy doesn't mean your mouth is intelligent. He means that you're being rude."
"Then why did he say it was smart?"
"It's called sarcasm."
"What's scarcasim?"
"Not scarcasim. Sarcasm. It's when you say something thinking you are being funny, but you're really making fun of the person you are talking about."
"Daddy is making fun of me?" (confused look here)
"No, but when daddy says you have a smart mouth it means that you sound smart (because you are spelling) but you're really being rude."
"Oh. Well, that's just s-i-l-l-y."
"I suppose to you it is. We'll have this conversation again later I'm sure. Give me a hug."
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Mar. 8, 2007 The Light at Tern Rock
We have been plugging our way through this book for what seems like forever. Christopher doesn't like it that much and honestly, I can't say I do either. I am pushing to finish it up so we can start something else on Monday. We've taken a break from Sonlight's "I can read it" books and are doing Dick & Jane for now. It's doing a lot to ease up on Christopher's frustration level and to build some confidence with his school work. The boy still amazes me at math and what he's able to comprehend. He's a giant math sponge!
Erin's doing great with her schooling as well. We aren't officially starting her until we get the new language arts material and her math ordered after Easter, but I can't wait. I'll have 2 kindergarteners!
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Feb. 17, 2007 Progress & Additions
Wow, it's been a while since I've been able to update here at homeschoolblogger. I started a blog on homesteadblogger for just my personal ramblings, and I think I'll keep this one for just school related stuff for now, but if I keep having such a hard time getting into this one I'll probably just use the other one for everything. If you want to visit it, here is the link.
Things are going along pretty well here. Christopher is doing great with his work, although we are still taking it slow. For every hour of academic work that we get in, I feel like we're doing three additional hours on those little things like character building, impulse control and self awareness. Yup, just those little things. 
I'm begining to debate adding Erin to our school day now. She's picking up on so much stuff that I think it would be nice to have them at the same core level and then just do appropriate level math and language arts with each of them. She's trying desperately to boycott the nap, although she and Christopher both still need one, so it might make my day a little easier if I do that. I'm hoping to talk to DH some about it this weekend and see if we have the $$ in the curriculum budget to get her the Horizons K Math workbooks. I don't think I really need the teachers manual for K level. Having her go through a math worksheet while Christopher is doing his I think would work out well. Of course, I could just be deluding myself. I do really like the idea of later versus earlier, which is why we're planning on plugging through the Core K all the way until December of this year with Christopher. That way I don't have to spend every day working so hard on the acedemics when there are all those "little" things I mentioned above that keep creeping up.
Sean on the other hand might finally be starting to talk. Man it's weird! After having two that were almost talking in complete sentences by 2 and Christopher would knew his ABC's and could say and comprehend WAY more than I ever imagined at 1...it just floors me to have one that doesn't talk. We took him in for a hearing test and he passed that with flying colors, so now we're going to have a speech evaluation done with Birth to 3. I don't know if we'll go into full speech therapy because he is starting to talk more, but it'll be nice just to hear them say he's doing okay.
Otherwise, we're still chugging along. For the most part people have backed off telling us how messed up our idea of homeschooling is, but there are still a few that make comments every chance they get. Sigh...I think they are starting to just accept that we're weird though. HA! I remember in Jr. High we had a slogan one year of "Why be normal?" I liked it I guess because it stuck!
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Dec. 4, 2006 All I needed to learn I didn't learn in ....
All I needed to learn I didn't learn in .... Kindergarten! Man!
I am constantly amazed at what Christopher is learning in a K
curriculum. I know we're using LA1 and Math1, but the rest is
K. Did they seriously teach all this when I was in school??
I don't remember learning this type of stuff until middle elementary
ages. Yikes!!! I'm so grateful that DH is okay with us
taking things slow and catering a little bit to Christopher's learning
style (which is all over the place! LOL). There are days I wonder
how in the world other kids like him function in a public school
environment. Today we were able to get back more to our schedule
after the crisis in the family a couple of weeks ago.
We accomplished:
- handwriting
- spelling words
- 2 lessons in math
- language arts worksheet
- C reading to me
- finished reading "The Apple and the Arrow"
AND we are taking a break from TV for today. The kids have only
asked once to watch a movie, so I'm hoping they can hold off for the
rest of the day and we can survive without it. This time of day
is usually when they want to watch the most. We haven't had cable
in almost 4 years, but videos and PBS make it so easy to just sit and
get much of nothing accomplished.
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Nov. 27, 2006 How Great is Our God
How Great Is Our God Lyrics
Artist(Band):Chris Tomlin
How Great Is Our God Lyrics
VERSE(1):
The splendor of the King,
Clothed in majesty
Let all the earth rejoice,
All the earth rejoice
He wraps himself in light,
And darkness tries to hide
And trembles at his voice,
And trembles at his voice
CHORUS(1):
How great is our God,
Sing with me
How great is our God,
and all will see
How great, How great
Is our God
VERSE(2):
Age to age he stands
And time is in His Hands
Beginning and the End,
Beginning and the End
The Godhead, Three in one
Father, Spirit, Son
The Lion and the Lamb,
The Lion and the Lamb
CHORUS(1):
How great is our God,
Sing with me
How great is our God,
and all will see
How great, How great
Is our God
CHORUS(2)
Name above all names
Worthy of our praise
My heart will sing how great
Is our God
(x2)
CHORUS(1):
How great is our God,
Sing with me
How great is our God,
and all will see
How great, How great
Is our God
This is my soul,
my savior,God to Thee
How great Thy art
How great Thy art
(x2)
CHORUS(1):
How great is our God,
Sing with me
How great is our God,
and all will see
How great, How great
Is our God
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What a difficult week this past
week has been! I never imagined that I would look over the events
of my life and be a mother that had buried one of her children. I
never imagined the heartache, the sorrow, the complete emptiness and
yearning of my soul for the little boy we've had to let go of.
Joshua was with us for such a short while and I think of all the things
we'll never know and my heart breaks all over again. What would
he have looked like? Would he have had red hair like his oldest
brother and sister, or dark like his daddy and Sean? What would
his laugh have sounded like? What would his first word have
been? Sooo many things that haunt my mind. Yet...I know so
much.
My little Joshua will never feel
pain. He'll never shed a tear in heartache. He'll never
know how horrible and cruel this world can be. My sweet boy rests
in the arms of his Savior. If we are able to know others in
Heaven, he knows his grandmother and grandfather and lots of family and
friends. He knows how much our hearts ache for him, but he also
knows that Christ gives us peace that passes all understanding and in
time we will feel that peace more than we feel the pain.
Thank
you Father for the little boy you gave us, if only for a short
time. While I hurt and I am filled with sorrow now, I would not
trade the time I had with him for anything in the world.
2 Samuel 12:23b, "I will go to him, but he will not return to me."
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Nov. 19, 2006 We are home...
Thank you all so much for your thoughts and prayers over
the last few
days. I apologize that I've left you without an update until now, but
things took much longer than we expected and it took major amounts of
medicine to get my body to kick into labor.
Joshua
(God is salvation) Michael (Who is like God) finally arrived Saturday morning at
10:02 a.m. after a very long induction process. Our Peanut was perfect
in every way and weighed only 8 ounces. He was on his way to being
another tall Ballard boy though at 11 1/2 inches. Andrew and I are home
now and while we are very tired, God has remained true and saw us
through the most difficult few days we have ever faced together. We are
sure there will be difficult times ahead, but with all the love and
concern we have been shown this week, I have no doubt that we can see
it through.
Thank you again for EVERYTHING!!!
Oh,
and I'm sure most will figure it out, but we chose Michael as a middle
name for it's meaning as well as for his momma's name. ![[Wink]](mailbox:///C%7C/Documents%20and%20Settings/Michele/Application%20Data/Mozilla/Profiles/skemers/n7h9su78.slt/Mail/pop3.frontiernet.net/Inbox?number=17370796&part=1.1.2&filename=wink.gif) 
Michele (Andrew and the kids)
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Dear
Family & Friends,
Yesterday was my 24 week ob appt. It started off great with the
midwife
going over the results of our ultrasound from a few weeks ago.
Everything measured on target at that point and Peanut was a wonderful
healthy little boy. However, when we proceeded to my exam, we were
unable to hear the heartbeat so
they did a quick ultrasound in the office and didn't like what they
saw. I went to the hospital and they confirmed that our little boy is
no longer alive. I will go in tomorrow morning (Friday) for delivery.
We are doing okay, still in shock and very disappointed, but we know
that God's timing is always perfect. Your prayers are
much appreciated and I will keep you updated as I can after tomorrow.
Much love,
Michele & Andrew (and the kids)
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