We have had two really great days. Yesterday Ryan stayed home to fix his truck. It was really cool cause the big kids could hang out with him while he was working in the driveway so I got lots of stuff done with just baby inside. He also was able to keep Zeff out from underfoot while Joss and I did another 2 Calvert lessons. We skip the review and I amp up the stuff we do. Example: on one style of worksheet you are supposed to color the pictures that end in the _at sound or whatever. Joss does not care for coloring much so we call those worksheets "spelling tests" and she writes all the words that end in _at. For math she was supposed to cut and glue sets of 11. Well instead she figured out several different ways to make 11 with her cuisenaire rods and wrote them out in "number sentences," I am getting more and more comfortable in tailoring the curriculum to her.
In the afternoon the kids and I got tons done in our garden. Joss transplanted 8 annuals in our small circle garden completely independently! She needed a little reminder to dig the holes deep enough to cover all the roots but did a great job. She planted all the like flowers together where I would have intermingled them but hey, she was really proud. Zeff planted a marjoram and a parsley plant in our herb garden. He is so adorable: he decided the marjoram was a boy and parsley was a girl and they were friends. Today we bought a chamomile for that garden and that is a boy and is also friends with the others!
Another Zeff milestone: He has really started to enjoy singing and learning alot of songs! He is singing along with Robot Parade by They Might Be Giants right now. BTW their CD, "No!" is awesome. Very listenable kids music. Funny lyrics.
Huge Joss milestone yesterday! She can independently ride her two wheeler!!! She can start and stop and everything!! She is so proud of herself that she was just shrieking "Hooray! Hooray!"
Also very cool: Joss (and Zeff although he wasn't supposed to) were in a production of Stone Soup with our hs support group. There were 3 or 4 other kids and it was tons of fun. Well, it was really fun and a good experience for them and I but I gotta run! Man, these kids keep me busy!!!!!!!!!!!