At Around 6 E and I were in bed together. Sometime during the night we'd lost the husband to the girl child. Fine with me, E takes up too much room in a king size bed anyway. In my sleepy state I thought E was nursing back to sleep, but then he popped off and I hear a, "Da?" (Daddy). "No, E" "No da?" "No, E. It's night-night." Goes back to nursing.
Two minutes later ~ from the other room: "Daddy! Get uuuuuuuuuup!" And E is off and running. "Gee!" (is what he calls Margie)
And here we are. It's too early. Alex is sleeping in until 7am.
The kids requested a Leap Frog DVD so I'm already educating them! Woo! They sit on the couch holding pillows.
HA.
There is an unschooling park day today I might check out depending on where is it in the county. We'll see.
8:01 AM~
Kids fed. They had the rest of the pumpkin bread. I should keep that on hand always. Veggies for breakfast.
I exercised.
Showered.
Folded laundry.
M's clothes are ready to be put away.
I smell a poopy dipe!
Alex put on a Barbie movie so I have to wait until that's over to get anything done.
I'll take this time to organize myself for the day, get some projects together and planned out.
I remembered Heroes is tonight so the kids have to skip naps so they will go to bed early. I have my priorities straight for sure!
Alex is about to leave for work.
9:38AM~
I pulled out some worksheets for M, printed some for E. Put them on the table.
Cleaned up a bit, did some FlyLady stuff.
After the Barbie movie was over, I directed the kids to the table. E preferred to put stuff on the record player. Also to poop again. And then to dump beads all over the floor. That gave us a chance to review colors.
Oh also, E was quizzing himself on paw prints. He was playing with a Blue's Clues toy Blue and pointing to different parts:
"This paw-paw? Nah. This paw-paw? Nah. This paw-paw? Yes!"
M finished her worksheets, I went over them and directed her to fix mistakes.
(She's really not suffering... I swear!)
E decided to color his worksheets now. Then he decided to color the clipboard and throw the crayons.
Then M made us waltz with stuffed animals. I am breaking here w/ a cup of coffee. E is nak (nursing @ keyboard).
I exercised.
Showered.
Folded laundry.
M's clothes are ready to be put away.
I smell a poopy dipe!
Alex put on a Barbie movie so I have to wait until that's over to get anything done.
I'll take this time to organize myself for the day, get some projects together and planned out.
I remembered Heroes is tonight so the kids have to skip naps so they will go to bed early. I have my priorities straight for sure!
Alex is about to leave for work.
9:38AM~
I pulled out some worksheets for M, printed some for E. Put them on the table.
Cleaned up a bit, did some FlyLady stuff.
After the Barbie movie was over, I directed the kids to the table. E preferred to put stuff on the record player. Also to poop again. And then to dump beads all over the floor. That gave us a chance to review colors.
Oh also, E was quizzing himself on paw prints. He was playing with a Blue's Clues toy Blue and pointing to different parts:
"This paw-paw? Nah. This paw-paw? Nah. This paw-paw? Yes!"
M finished her worksheets, I went over them and directed her to fix mistakes.
(She's really not suffering... I swear!)
E decided to color his worksheets now. Then he decided to color the clipboard and throw the crayons.
Then M made us waltz with stuffed animals. I am breaking here w/ a cup of coffee. E is nak (nursing @ keyboard).
11:57AM~
We went to the library where M heard stories about dragons (and came home a drew a dragon and requested Pete's Dragon on our Blockbuster Queue and is now flapping around the house under a green blanket pretending to be a dragon) and E and I played with an alphabet puzzle. I checked out "How to bake an Apple Pie and See the World" (Or something) for FIAR and "Tango Makes Three" for banned books week and then found the Peter, Paul & Mommy CD (which has Puff on it... theme?) as well as a lullaby CD made of Cure songs, and a Math rap CD which I'm pretty sure I'm going to hate. (Update: I do!)
We came home for lunch and I started a loaf of bread and dinner in the crock pot.
Now we're off again for E's nap in the car and a trip to the co-op and probably a playground.
E's nose is bothering him. I can't tell if it's boogers or a bead from earlier
3:16PM~
We drove up to OB and played at the playground for about 45 minutes before we went to the co-op.
We listened to The Witches on CD on the way up there and listened to the math rap CD on the way home. We also stopped so I could take a couple photos of the ocean. My poor kids.
On the way home, we were talking about trees - conifers and deciduous - and whether or not palm trees are bushes or not. I told Margie, "Well, Daddy says they are bushes, and maybe he's right, but he's not a botanist. Do you know what a botanist is?"
"It's when you are wrong."
M is outside playing with the next door neighbor girl, E is watching a new Bob the Builder DVD we got last week as a hand-me-down I'm about to crack open some Camp Fire stuff to start planning for the year.
6:37PM~
M played outside for over an hour and E and I spent time in here playing games and looking at books together. I also cleaned up a bit. Or something. Played online. Either way, I could not face the Camp Fire book - it's so overwhelming!
M came in at 5pm and I fed the kids dinner while they watched some Eric Carle books on video.
After that I vacuumed while the kids ran circles around me. The vacuum cleaner makes them CRAZY, I swear.
M and I did a science project about condensation. ties in to the states of matter we talked about a week or so ago and Autumn (b/c it was "raining" in the jar)
Now Alex is home and the kids are tired. E is complaining that the TV is not on.
M is flapping around in her green blanket singing "Puff The Magic Dragon"
Oh, I was telling Alex about how E was quizzing himself on paw prints and E started repeating it for him. I will try to get it on video tomorrow or something.
The kids will be heading off to bed in less than 30 min now. We are done schooling for today!
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