Wagons and skeletons

We have been busy this week even though we tried to chill @ the house and relax. Monday Niki and I put together a small plastic skeleton! Actually, it came in the mail, Niki retrieved it and was excited for 2 seconds and I spend 20 minutes putting the thing together and the rest of the day trying to use the proper Latin names of the bones to tell the kids to do things! I had fun anyway!

Mady blew some giant bubbles with some toxic smelling goo she received in her stocking. Bright and early Tuesday morning, Papaw brought us a new wagon! Everyone had to try it out. We talked a little about covered wagons and prairie life but that didn't last long since the kids wanted to pull each other around the house in the wagon.

Today I tried to get the kids to do some schooly stuff. I tried to get Niki to take a look @ some of the Hooked on Phonics books that Mady used...that went over like a ton of bricks! The afternoon was spent in debate about how we spend our time. Sometimes I doubt this path we are on. I read all the time but Mady only reads when I bring it up and Niki wants nothing to do with it. We do manage to read National Geographic together when it arrives in the mail. National Geographic always gets some conversations flowing and the globe gets brought down from its shelf. The girls like to play Brain Age on the Nintendo DS which is a good thing.
I guess maybe I am jealous the kids have so much time to do just about anything they want...the problem is they never seem to want to do much. Mady is still going to her art class but I rarely see her draw. We do crafty things together once a week or so.I know plenty of people that unschool locally. The parents of the older children are reassuring. I suppose when they get older they will want to be more involved and more interested...?

I wanted to write about Samurai sword fighting after watching Kill Bill 2 last night but I have not had time to do any searching or reading on that today. Do you think I can find someone locally to teach me Samurai sword fighting? LOL