After having week after week of Steve home for a 3 day weekend with bank holidays and vacation time and such, he actually had a full week this week.  So, it feels like a really long week.  Couple that with Jazz band starting back up, and him being gone on Thursday evening, and we are really ready for the weekend. I don't know why January is such a long month.  It always is. 

As for school stuff this week, we've accomplished a full week of school and co-op starts on Monday.  Trent is about 10 lessons away from the end of his Saxon 7/6 book.  He conquered pi this week, and it didn't confuse him in the least.  I guess that's why we are sticking with Saxon.  It seems to be working for him,  Max is doing really well with his too.  The highlight of the morning was Fed Ex at the door at 8 with Trent's Apolgia Zoology 1 book.  He is doing it through the Co-op.  Max also has a beginning science class.  I will be teaching NO science this spring, other than doing some nature study stuff and a few science videos.  Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelu, Hallelujah.  Gabby is mastering lettersounds, but it is S...L...O...W  going with the blending.  She seems to be more aural with her learning.  Can sound out the letters that I verbalize, and blend them outloud, but looking at them on paper still sort of baffles her.  I do have to HIGHLY recommend the Letter Factory DVDs.  They are WONDERFUL for learning letter sounds.  Natalie can even tell you what most of the letters say.  Amazing, I tell ya!

Miss Piper is really changing.  She's smiling and cooing lots more.  The fussiness in the evenings is starting to subside a little, but not wholly yet.  As for sleeping through the night.  I don't want her too for quite a while, the more often I have to nurse, the more calories I am burning.  We have discovered that she loves tummy sleeping, though, so we are doing more of that.  She's more content to nap in her portacrib this way.  I am going to be hauling my swing to co-op with us, though.  The girl LOVES her swing, and the church nursury doesn't have one.