SCHOOL......I really think is the culprit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nicholas has finally gotten old enough to handle the tedious task of learning to read and write! Just the added child for half of the day has really eaten into my free time! Some of you veteran homeschoolers may wonder why a six year old would take half a day to complete phonics and math! Two words.....ATTENTION SPAN! Lots of breaks and movement is required! :) Gotta love my boys!!!!
Guess this will be a big catch up post and maybe I can start doing better at keeping my blog more up to date!
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Ricky has really been enjoying school so far this year! I bought the D.I.V.E. cds for Saxon Math and this has really helped him!
Also, we have finally gotten the hang of the nut allergy situation! He remembers to carry his pens with him without being told. He has become good at asking questions and reading labels before eating anything! Only one scare with some chocolate so far, but it wasn't bad enough to use the epi pen!
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Kaitlyn has been practicing her violin for the Christmas Concert. Christmas sounds fill the house and really puts us all in the spirit a little early!
Also, she sold her bike this weekend in our rummage sale and now is riding a new one! Her dad told her that if she could get a certain price for her bike he would give her the rest she needed for the new bike. Talk about a little girl praying daily in our morning devotion for it to sell. Friday she stuck her price on the handle bars and put it by the road. It sold in less than two hours. She was so proud and told everyone how God had answered her prayer!
K. has been trying to develop a love for reading! I have had to help her see the need for this love, but she seems to be coming around to my way of thinking!
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Nicholas has learned to ride his bike this past month without training wheels! He wanted the training wheels off last year sometime, but would not even try to ride the thing. About two weeks ago he gets on and takes off! YEAH!
N. is doing great in school this year and begs to do extra work! I had really worried about him in the past, but now realize that it is better to wait until they are ready!
N. has taken a liking to art and has decided that he wants to be an artist! This is great news, since it the first thing besides soccer that you could really refer to as his own interest!
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Kensli has just been herself! Where would one begin to start to tell what has been going on with our SPICY, ENERGETIC, VERY TALKATIVE, LITTLE FIREBALL!!!!!!!!!!! Literally it is hard to share just one or two things that she has been up to!
She loves rummage sales, because of the customers! She will follow around anyone that she deems worthy of her attention and just talk and talk! This past weekend, she found several new friends! The line up of people that Kensli thought worthy of her attention included a high school English teacher that loved her verbal skills, a 7 year old boy that she evidently liked because he just nodded and let her do all the talking, a beautiful little African American baby girl that she informed the baby's mother that her baby was the same color as Kaitlyn, a lady that looked at the Halloween costumes that we had for sale and didn't buy one which made Kensli want to know why not, and a dog named Leo and his owner that she stalked the entire they were shopping!
One of the funniest things that I overheard her say was her conversation with another homeschool boy(age 6) whose family had dropped by our rummage sale to look around! The little boy, who was a good bit bigger than Kensli, had made the mistake of grabbing her arm with a puppet!
Kensli (with hand on her hip): "I can hutt!"
L. Boy totally ignored her and kept playing with some toys!
Kensli (hand still on hip and added neck movement): "I said I can hutt!"
L. Boy still ignored her!
Kensli (hand and neck movement and add loudness): "HEY, I SAID I CAN HUTT!!!!"
L. Boy finally turned and looked her.
Kensli (before he could respond): "DO YOU WANT SOME HUTT?"
L. Boy: "No!"
Kensli: "Then you better leave me alone!"
At this point I step in to remind her that we do not hurt anyone, and the little boy ran off to play ball with Nicholas! Whew! I am not sure where she gets it all from!!!!!
She got a new bike, too! It is a big girl, princess bike with training wheels! She loves to ride and sing songs she makes up!
She has also taken a liking to Pippi Longstocking! We read the books outloud and then watched a movie! Kensli goes around pretending that she is Pippi, thinking up new words, and wishing she had braids that stuck straight out!
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So, that is some of life here for the last few days.........fast and furious, crazy and funny, happy and loving...........are just some of the words to describe our days! I wouldn't change anything for the world!
PS---I am not sure what has happened to my spacing on my posts! I have worked very hard to get it to look right, but the spacing is still messed up! Any thoughts or suggestions?
1 comment:
Glad to see you back! I love hearing about all your adventures. ;-)
As for the spacing - no clue. It happens to me from time to time too. I have to go in & mess with the html & that's really annoying.
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