Tuesday

1:13~
E stirs in his sleep. Alex snores and wakes E fully. Yay me.

3:08~
E is finally back asleep. I use this opportunity to get myself a drink of water.

3:10~
M yells out in her sleep, "Elliott, NO!" *snicker*

3:11~
E is back awake. *sigh*

3:12~
E falls fast asleep easily this time. Alex starts snoring again. I kick him out of bed or else I won't get ANY sleep.

6:45~
E wakes up and I sic him on Alex.

7:45~
I wake up feeling well enough rested to be a mom today!

9:00~
After getting some work done on the computer and fueling myself with caffeine, I set M up on nickjr.com and I run off to get the house ready for the day. I also prepare some worksheets for her for later. Math, telling time, draw-then-write, and Explode the Code.

9:30~
M does some of her worksheets and declares she will finish the rest later. E colors on his own worksheets.

10:00~
M & I play dominoes, E plays with the letter/number/color puzzles we have. When we finish two games of dominoes, M joins E with puzzles - she works on the US map.

11:30~
Lunchtime. Watch Planet Earth: Jungles while we eat. After lunch M pretends to be a jungle frog and then decides to "play Wonder Pets". E announces letters & numbers from his puzzle pieces and then brings me the magnadoodle and commands me to write various letters. E turns the "O" into a sun. M & I marvel at various types of fungus & mold on the Planet Earth video.

12:30~
Naptime!

2:30~
E & I spend some rare quiet time alone together and I introduce him to starfall.com.

3:00~
M wakes up and the kids watch Bear in the Big Blue House for a bit to wake up.

During the afternoon...

I worked on my to-do list, made a phone call, started dinner, fed the kids a snack.
Margie finished her worksheets, played Littlest Petshop with E & I, played by herself, read about sharks and spiders.
Elliott looked at books and played with dominos.

After dinner and before Alex got home, Margie showed Elliott more stuff on Starfall.com and that was sweet. They spent about half hour dancing around the living room to the pumpkin song on there. Cuties.

I might try and talk M into watching an episode of Meerkat Manor tonight with me, but other than that, school is closed for the day.