We're half-way through our school year now!! It's amazing. Drew is still flying through the material. I'm just aching to teach him something he hasn't already figured out!! He picked up a 2nd grade math book over our vacation and started answering questions. Umm...someone tell that kid he's in 1st grade! It's great though. I'm looking forward to opportunities to challenge him. We're moving into the "experiments" part of our science book, so he's defnitely getting more interested there. AND...we signed up for a chick-hatching project! We'll borrow an incubator from the local extension office, care for the eggs until they hatch, and then for the chicks for 4 weeks after. At that point, we will bring them back to the farm to do what chickens do best. Drew and Ben are really excited for this. I just hope our dog behaves!
Drew's going through a funk these past few weeks. He's decided he is scared of the pitching machine and doesn't want to play baseball this year. He really dislikes Cub Scouts. I told him he should really do something, and he said he'd like to start swimming lessons regularly. I think that's very ok. I'm going to see what we can do to get that going again. He's a natural in the pool and really enjoys it. Swim team could be in our future?? He's super competitive though (read: hates to lose), so he may struggle with that. He's got to learn somehow though.
Ben is flourishing even though we aren't formally doing school with him yet. We do a lot of reading together, and just tonight he started sounding out some simple words with me. He can write all his uppercase letters and numbers. He's so quick to pick things up it makes me feel bad that we aren't doing something more regularly with him. It has to be on his terms though right now, because when I ask him to do it, he fights against me. I told him that in the fall he'll have to do a bit more with me every day instead and he said "Well, of course mama. That's what kindergarteners do!" So, he'll be ready soon enough.
Sam is finally talking. It's so nice that he is truly communicating with us now!! Short sentences, clear words most of the time, and the rest of the time we can figure out what he's trying to tell us. All this from a child who was just grunting 4 months ago.
Well, I'm off to put a ton of toys into storage. All I've seen is toys strewn all over the floor for the past several days and no one playing with them. For the first time in ages, when I gave the boys a heads up that my plans were to do that tonight, they said "Yeah, that's probably a good idea mom." Yep, they've got far too much and they know it.
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