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Beginning Our Journey
Aug. 21, 2008
Homeschool Happenings and Random Ramblings.
Praise the Lord my 3 hour test came back fine! Sigh of relief!!! I am so happy about that! Thank you to everyone who was praying for me. I know I have the best of friends!
Tristan is full swing into his steroid eating. Today was kinda funny... He is chubby at the moment. He goes up and down amazingly on his weight. Well he decided to flip my foot stool to my rocker over. It also glides. And make a swing for himself. Great idea and yes it looked really fun! He sat down in the bars and was "swinging". THANK GOD Justin was home still! Justin saw him struggling to get out and realized... he was stuck! So he called me in to look at him. I laughed and we tried to get him out. He was NOT coming out. We tried, we pushed, we pulled, we tried angles. Trying not to hurt him. Tristan got scared. We were trying to figure out what to do as I really do not think Justin has a normal saw. Sure all these high powered things but not just a plain old fashioned saw. Thankfully we managed to get where we held the footstool up at an angle and I pushed, he pulled, Tristan cried, and finally he came out. BUT MAN OH MAN! If I was alone I would have had to call my dad at work to come home! I felt so bad for Tristan because he was scared! It really was completely funny. And looked like a ton of fun! But the fun wore off when Tristan realized it was going to hurt to get out! We tried not to bend his litlte knees backwards and was going real slow. But I really thought were were going to have to bust it apart! Not to mention Justin was running late for work! Oh what a fun situation. :)
That boy keeps me on my toes that is for sure!
School is still going awesome! Alyssa completed 5 weeks already. I am going to sign her up for a writing and speech co-op. I am very excited about that! It starts Sept 5th and meets at my church! It is two fridays a month and the group also does field trips. I am just waiting on the registration email. But I am very excited about this class. I think she will do great and get us out meeting other homeschool families. Too bad it is not in my town though. It is 25-30 mins from us. Not a huge deal unless the weather gets bad.
We also signed up for the free Gateway Clipper Cruise day. We went last year and had a great time. I am looking forward to it as three other friends of mine also signed up. It is going to be a great time! That is at the end of September.
Last year was a good homeschool year but I think this year is going to be even better!! It already has been!
Tristan is cracking me up with learning math facts. I took advantage of his steroid cravings and pulled out a pack of M&Ms. I gave him two and said, if I give you two and then give you three more, how many do you have? and we counted. Then I said 2 plus 3 equals 5. Then I went to Alyssa and did the same thing. Then back to Tristan. They Both were sad when my pack ran out. I think that is something I might do from time to time since it is a fun treat and also getting math in! The other day on the swing on our porch I was holding Tristan and talking in terms of cookies. I said if Alyssa has one cookie and you eat it! how many does she have left?! And then things like if I let you have to two cookies and Alyssa gives you one, how many do you have?
Talking in terms of food. Bringing it to his level. He was really getting it!
The kid amazes me on what he is learning on his own. I have not done much of any working with him. Alyssa I was sitting down teaching. Tristan I periodically ask questions and find out what he does already know.
I am getting my Christmas Advent things in order. I figure I will plan it out now so when the baby comes I am ready and do not have to prepare. I plan to take the month off of our regular school and go all Christmas/Advent themed. I planned for this, and it is a reason I started school early. I have Christmas workbooks, and tons of books, videos etc. If anyone has any good sites, links, ideas, I would love to hear them.
So that is that :)
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Aug. 22, 2008 - Loved the update!
Blessings,
Kym