Records

I am sure I have pictures to post if I wanted, but for now, I think I just need to get back in the habit of keeping some kind of documentation of what we do. We have been using our little calendar but blogging obviously provides more room for detail.
Niki and I played on Starfall yesterday for a couple of hours. She hasn't been interested in this website lately. Upon re-introduction to Starfall.com we discovered Niki can now read! Amazing how it just happens. We watch Word World, and the LEAP videos often, and we read daily but, who can say why everything actually clicked suddenly? I can say there was no coercion or pressure put on Niki to learn to read at the age of 3 and 4 as there was for Mady when she attended private school. Niki also loves workbooks. We worked on some mathy sort of pages yesterday as well. There are some blank pages in the workbook which Niki filled with her own made up story in her own made up language that seems to consist of the traditional alphabet. We all painted pictures yesterday. Niki painted some rainbows and the boys painted, well, the boys painted lots of things. We also began a new book titled "Fever 1793" about a little girl living during the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. Niki wanted to go bike riding with me last night. Instead of leaving our neighborhood for a long winding stretch of hilly road, we stayed here and I rode a short 3 times (3 Miles) around our neighborhood with Niki, which seems like a long distance for such a little girl. So to put everything in schooly terms, we had a bit of history, math, reading, writing, PE and art. I believe that is a full day people.
Luke and Ezra and I played Memory and color Bingo. We played them our way since Luke and Ezra are a bit young for following "rules" to board games. Ezra also decided he needed to paint some of his die cast cars...on the laminate flooring in his room while I was helping Niki on Starfall. There were tire tracks all over the floor!
Niki and Luke have a pretty nasty cough so we are headed to the library for some books today and maybe to a friends house (who already has the nasty cough.) Mady should be home Wednesday and we can begin her new writing videos. I know she will LOVE that.
Next week we have plans to hit Port Aransas with Nenaw while she is on vacation. We are staying in a hotel, a rare event for this camping family. As a matter of fact, I think the boys have spent one night in a hotel in their 3 years. Consider all the trips we have been on all over Texas. This will be an exercise in finding what is socially acceptable behavior for Texas hotels.
The weekends around here have become extremely busy. There are so many free outdoor concerts in the area and our family loves to be outside the music is an added bonus. We have tickets (these ones weren't free) this weekend to Concerts in the Garden in Ft. Worth at the Botanic Gardens. There will be a laser show!
So, off to the library and visiting we go!