Ok, I know it’s been a while since we posted on the blog, the blog is being a dummy head, so hopefully it works today.
Rus will be teaching some classes for an ESL school in Provo called Selnate, starting this coming week. He’ll also be working part time for the zoo through Sep.
Gwen said some fun things this week. She threw her arms around me and gave me a huge hug, then said, “My heart is giving you loves.” Sweet! That’s what makes doing what I do all day long worth it. All week long she’s been talking about what animals she wants to have, a turtle (for her next birthday she says), a tiger, a zebra etc. She’s definitely her father’s daughter. At one point she said, “Someday I want to have a tiger.” I replied, “I think you have to be a zoo keeper to do that.” She thought about that for a moment and then said, “Someday I want to have a cat, you don’t have to be a zoo keeper to have that.” Hee hee hee, I love watching them think through things. Later in the car we were talking about what she wants to be when she grows up. Besides wanting to be a doggie (just like Auntii Kerry did!) she said she wanted to be a dolphin trainer, then said “I will need a dolphin friend for that.”
Laurelin had her first week of Kindergarten and absolutely loves it. In fact she was sad on Saturday morning because she didn’t get to go to school that day. On her second day of school, we were walking her there, and about a block away from school, she said, “That’s good Mamma, I can get it from here.” I said I was going to walk her all the way to her classroom, so she said, “Ok, but don’t come in the room, I can get it from the door.” It’s such a different experience having a kid who likes to go to school!! I love it! I’m excited for her to get to go and have new experiences, rather than feeling ripped in half like I did when I had to make Xander go to school.
He’s been doing his homeschool for a few weeks now. It’s starting to get a little bit easier, hopefully we’ll get the hang of it before too long. He was a little disappointed when he found out that homeschool doesn’t mean no school, but I think he’s doing ok. He watched a movie about the Cub Scout Pine Wood Derby and has been busily planning what kind of a car he’ll build when he’s a scout, and racing all sorts of objects down pieces of cardboard on the stairs to find out what kind of shapes are fastest.
Isaac started 4th grade 2 weeks ago, and is somewhat ambivalent about the whole thing. There’s more homework in 4th grade which he doesn’t like, but he’s excited about who his teacher is as she does cool science stuff. Their next unit in science will be on fossils, and they’re taking a field trip to the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur museum. Needless to say he’s very excited about that.
Ok, we’ll see if that posts, and if it works, I’ll try some pics.
Rus will be teaching some classes for an ESL school in Provo called Selnate, starting this coming week. He’ll also be working part time for the zoo through Sep.
Gwen said some fun things this week. She threw her arms around me and gave me a huge hug, then said, “My heart is giving you loves.” Sweet! That’s what makes doing what I do all day long worth it. All week long she’s been talking about what animals she wants to have, a turtle (for her next birthday she says), a tiger, a zebra etc. She’s definitely her father’s daughter. At one point she said, “Someday I want to have a tiger.” I replied, “I think you have to be a zoo keeper to do that.” She thought about that for a moment and then said, “Someday I want to have a cat, you don’t have to be a zoo keeper to have that.” Hee hee hee, I love watching them think through things. Later in the car we were talking about what she wants to be when she grows up. Besides wanting to be a doggie (just like Auntii Kerry did!) she said she wanted to be a dolphin trainer, then said “I will need a dolphin friend for that.”
Laurelin had her first week of Kindergarten and absolutely loves it. In fact she was sad on Saturday morning because she didn’t get to go to school that day. On her second day of school, we were walking her there, and about a block away from school, she said, “That’s good Mamma, I can get it from here.” I said I was going to walk her all the way to her classroom, so she said, “Ok, but don’t come in the room, I can get it from the door.” It’s such a different experience having a kid who likes to go to school!! I love it! I’m excited for her to get to go and have new experiences, rather than feeling ripped in half like I did when I had to make Xander go to school.
He’s been doing his homeschool for a few weeks now. It’s starting to get a little bit easier, hopefully we’ll get the hang of it before too long. He was a little disappointed when he found out that homeschool doesn’t mean no school, but I think he’s doing ok. He watched a movie about the Cub Scout Pine Wood Derby and has been busily planning what kind of a car he’ll build when he’s a scout, and racing all sorts of objects down pieces of cardboard on the stairs to find out what kind of shapes are fastest.
Isaac started 4th grade 2 weeks ago, and is somewhat ambivalent about the whole thing. There’s more homework in 4th grade which he doesn’t like, but he’s excited about who his teacher is as she does cool science stuff. Their next unit in science will be on fossils, and they’re taking a field trip to the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur museum. Needless to say he’s very excited about that.
Ok, we’ll see if that posts, and if it works, I’ll try some pics.
