02/20/2020
It's a cool date, and it's my birthday. Here's our life for the past 3 weeks:
Kaitlyn loves some British baking show, so she starting "evaluating" the dessert as if she were one of the judges on the show. Natalie joined in, voicing as if she were another of the judges. It was hilarious - British accents and all!
Yep, I'm lame about birthday candles. I didn't have any ready and so they blew out the candle from our "candlelit dinner" together.
Friday, two of the kids' schools had stuff going on - "learning celebration" for middle and "tag awards" for elementary. The twins presented things they've been doing this quarter in their classes. Kaitlyn represented the science fair, and Natalie represented another subject (social studies or ELA?)
While I went to the twins' presentations, Rob went to see Alee get her tag awards for this quarter. (I'm so glad it was a flex day. I would have been so sad to have to choose between the two events.)
I think I said this last quarter, but I love the idea of tags collected each quarter all year instead of a bunch of papers. (I'm not sure how I'll incorporate this into the scrapbook? Maybe I'll just put in this picture and she can hang the tags on her wall.)
Natalie is our giggly child that thinks everything is funny and can't seem to get it under control when she gets started laughing. She also is apparently the practical joke child too. She took Kaitlyn's phone and signed in to it and changed some settings. One was switching the names of herself and her best friend, which completely confused Kaitlyn in the text app where her sister and her friend had the wrong names on their messages. Kaitlyn was baffled and tried to explain what her phone was doing that was weird (I also was lost), and then Rob chuckled and told her to ask her phone what her name was.
Natalie had set Kaitlyn's nickname to be "poopy pants" so that her phone would call her that when she asked. She got it all fixed. Then she changed her password.
The young women went ice skating for an activity at the end of January. My 3 YW-aged girls loved it.
Sunday we had Kaitlyn's dessert - red velvet cake. (Only the icing is homemade. I did find 5 candles.) :)
Gideon learning moments:
Carolyn learning moments:
I organized 2 closets this month; this is our learning closet (school supplies, craft supplies, art supplies, learning things, etc.)
Gideon loved his valentine pop-up dinosaur. He slept with it several nights. I think it's almost destroyed by now; it was made of paper.
Seth wears a hat to every youth dance. It's his trademark. He and Carolyn went to 2 youth dances this month - one on the other side of Columbia and one in Lexington.
When we read our prophet book and get to the Noah & the ark page, Gideon asks, "Where are the dinosaurs?"
The painting continues! (sigh) We got it done, thankfully. This is after the first 2 walls were finished. I need to get a picture of the den put back together, but I'm waiting on all the pictures to go back up. (I had to wait a week before using command strips on the wall.)
My cousin's daughter needed help with sewing a blanket, so she came over for me to help her. She did a good job.
Gideon distracts Carolyn sometimes.
Gideon loves books. And because of this book, he now loves the show PJ Masks.
I tried to use a blanket to have Gideon restricted during a middle-school music presentation at the elementary school. (The band and orchestra performed to encourage the elementary kids to sign up, and Kaitlyn and Natalie each had solos and played with their groups. So we went to see the twins at the elementary school before homeschool co-op.) The blanket idea worked for a little while...
But the music just made him want to dance and run around! (He's always so wild...especially this particular Thursday!)
We met the teens at the mall for lunch (after our co-op classes and before their last elementary school visit). They were so crazy and loud!
That night the middle school had their spring "coffee house" (talent show). The twins had some difficulty with group planning and ended up with 2 groups, with them in different groups. (sigh)
Mom brought me her famous pound cake for my birthday; we ate it the Sunday before my birthday. The top is covered in a chocolate shell and oreos.
Just some fun with static electricity...
Finally! The final room I needed to paint is done! (I did not do a top quality job on this room because I pushed through it all in one day.) Again, the kids helped a lot with prep work, and Carolyn helped with the painting. [The photo was dark so google photos enhanced it...and now the paint color doesn't look light gray anymore. It does look less hole-y though.]
He is pretending to put on an elephant (Gerald) and piggie play. (We love Mo Willems books!)
I'm so glad he's not afraid of the puppets this year. :)
February Quotes and Stuff:
Natalie: "Teachers are afraid of rain."
[This is in response to having no outside time after lunch on rainy school days.]
Kaitlyn: "And then she'd have to go to the nurse. Ah!"
[Kaitlyn is very afraid of the school nurse, whom she has never met. She is also afraid of most doctors, nurses, therapists, etc...and needles and blood *gasp* I said "blood" Agh! If she gets injured at school, she will pretend she's fine, even if she can't mover her finger, so that she doesn't have to go to the school nurse.]
Gideon: "I'm fighting the dragon with the sword!"
[I hear this over the baby monitory one morning this week. He says this as he brandishes the dance baton and makes gun sounds.] "pew pew" [I took away the baton after Alee nearly became the dragon that was slayed.]
Gideon learns to pray.
He can say a prayer by himself. (He's just learning, so it's usually very short, and sometimes doesn't make sense. Tonight after he gave thanks, I prompted him to ask for something he needs help with, like going to the bathroom. I think he said something about watching something on the blue phone and then some other things he likes to do. He knows to end in the name of Jesus Christ.)
I'm 38 today.
The twins each get to pick a meal and dessert for their birthday, but then we split up their choices between 2 days, sometimes doing one's wishes on the birthday and the other on a Sunday nearest, sometimes splitting and doing 1 request from each on the 2 days chosen to celebrate, or like this year, putting everything wherever it is convenient. (Carolyn and Alee have the same arrangement.)
Kaitlyn's birthday meal (tortellini with alfredo sauce) was on the day before her birthday (Wednesday). Natalie's birthday meal (anything with macaroni) was on their birthday (Thursday). Natalie's birthday dessert was on their birthday, and Kaitlyn's was on the Sunday after their birthday. Since their birthday fell on a Thurday and that's Natalie's day of the week, it's fitting that both of her food items landed on her birthday.
Natalie chose a jelly roll style dessert - yellow cake with nutella and chocolate on top and dipped strawberries. (They are often good at coming up with dessert ideas that I would not have put together or thought of. It turned out surprisingly pretty, and it tasted very good.)
Kaitlyn loves some British baking show, so she starting "evaluating" the dessert as if she were one of the judges on the show. Natalie joined in, voicing as if she were another of the judges. It was hilarious - British accents and all!
Yep, I'm lame about birthday candles. I didn't have any ready and so they blew out the candle from our "candlelit dinner" together.
Friday, two of the kids' schools had stuff going on - "learning celebration" for middle and "tag awards" for elementary. The twins presented things they've been doing this quarter in their classes. Kaitlyn represented the science fair, and Natalie represented another subject (social studies or ELA?)
While I went to the twins' presentations, Rob went to see Alee get her tag awards for this quarter. (I'm so glad it was a flex day. I would have been so sad to have to choose between the two events.)
Natalie is our giggly child that thinks everything is funny and can't seem to get it under control when she gets started laughing. She also is apparently the practical joke child too. She took Kaitlyn's phone and signed in to it and changed some settings. One was switching the names of herself and her best friend, which completely confused Kaitlyn in the text app where her sister and her friend had the wrong names on their messages. Kaitlyn was baffled and tried to explain what her phone was doing that was weird (I also was lost), and then Rob chuckled and told her to ask her phone what her name was.
The young women went ice skating for an activity at the end of January. My 3 YW-aged girls loved it.
Sunday we had Kaitlyn's dessert - red velvet cake. (Only the icing is homemade. I did find 5 candles.) :)
Gideon learning moments:
Carolyn learning moments:
I organized 2 closets this month; this is our learning closet (school supplies, craft supplies, art supplies, learning things, etc.)
Gideon loved his valentine pop-up dinosaur. He slept with it several nights. I think it's almost destroyed by now; it was made of paper.
Seth wears a hat to every youth dance. It's his trademark. He and Carolyn went to 2 youth dances this month - one on the other side of Columbia and one in Lexington.
When we read our prophet book and get to the Noah & the ark page, Gideon asks, "Where are the dinosaurs?"
The painting continues! (sigh) We got it done, thankfully. This is after the first 2 walls were finished. I need to get a picture of the den put back together, but I'm waiting on all the pictures to go back up. (I had to wait a week before using command strips on the wall.)
My cousin's daughter needed help with sewing a blanket, so she came over for me to help her. She did a good job.
Gideon distracts Carolyn sometimes.
Gideon loves books. And because of this book, he now loves the show PJ Masks.
I tried to use a blanket to have Gideon restricted during a middle-school music presentation at the elementary school. (The band and orchestra performed to encourage the elementary kids to sign up, and Kaitlyn and Natalie each had solos and played with their groups. So we went to see the twins at the elementary school before homeschool co-op.) The blanket idea worked for a little while...
But the music just made him want to dance and run around! (He's always so wild...especially this particular Thursday!)
We met the teens at the mall for lunch (after our co-op classes and before their last elementary school visit). They were so crazy and loud!
Natalie's group was the Hooded Ensemble.
They played Legends of Glory. Natalie is playing her viola.
Kaitlyn's group had an emergency substitution (using a friend from Natalie's group) because her oboe friend got strep throat (although he didn't know why he didn't feel good), so a cello stepped in.
They played the pink panther. Kaitlyn's playing her melodica, which sounded awesome in this song!
Mom brought me her famous pound cake for my birthday; we ate it the Sunday before my birthday. The top is covered in a chocolate shell and oreos.
Just some fun with static electricity...
Finally! The final room I needed to paint is done! (I did not do a top quality job on this room because I pushed through it all in one day.) Again, the kids helped a lot with prep work, and Carolyn helped with the painting. [The photo was dark so google photos enhanced it...and now the paint color doesn't look light gray anymore. It does look less hole-y though.]
He is pretending to put on an elephant (Gerald) and piggie play. (We love Mo Willems books!)
February Quotes and Stuff:
Natalie: "Teachers are afraid of rain."
[This is in response to having no outside time after lunch on rainy school days.]
Kaitlyn: "And then she'd have to go to the nurse. Ah!"
[Kaitlyn is very afraid of the school nurse, whom she has never met. She is also afraid of most doctors, nurses, therapists, etc...and needles and blood *gasp* I said "blood" Agh! If she gets injured at school, she will pretend she's fine, even if she can't mover her finger, so that she doesn't have to go to the school nurse.]
Gideon: "I'm fighting the dragon with the sword!"
[I hear this over the baby monitory one morning this week. He says this as he brandishes the dance baton and makes gun sounds.] "pew pew" [I took away the baton after Alee nearly became the dragon that was slayed.]
Gideon learns to pray.
He can say a prayer by himself. (He's just learning, so it's usually very short, and sometimes doesn't make sense. Tonight after he gave thanks, I prompted him to ask for something he needs help with, like going to the bathroom. I think he said something about watching something on the blue phone and then some other things he likes to do. He knows to end in the name of Jesus Christ.)
I'm 38 today.
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