What a busy season of life, and I know we will replace it with a busy season that will look different.
I can say that I am so glad I have the kids home. Dear Emily has a hard time getting to sleep most nights, which is after she has read for 1-2 hours. I love that she gets to sleep in until 8:00 am when she needs to. I love that I sometimes get to go back to bed and get a little nap after I return home from workout at 6:00 am. It is sometimes still a rush to get to preschool, but it is only twice a week.
Mondays we have Classical Conversations, and we need to be across town by 8:30, so I can prep my room for my tutoring gig. Still it is a cake-walk compared to the middle schools I see waiting for the bus at 7:20 am.
The kids are in a sweet spot right now. They can get breakfast for themselves if I need them too. They can make a couple lunches too.
Noelle is still a whiny mess and doesn't want to do most things for herself. Year four has been a challenge!
We are entering travel season for Robert. He will leave for SEMA soon. He will have a different role this year, and will be working several different jobs/positions while there. Hope he gets some sleep in the next 13 days. He will have another trip in December that I might talk him in to letting us tag along.
Dallas is making some progress with reading. He knows all the sounds, and we are working on "helper" blends. I have already introduced two different ways to say "ow", (yellow/brown) and I know he finds it confusing. Language is hard. He knows and can recognize er, ur, ow, ee, ew, ue.
He enjoys math much more than Language Arts. He especially likes finding patterns, figuring out which number is missing, or which would come next in the sequence, can skip count by 2's and 10's and we have started working with clocks, pennies and dimes.
Emily still has not found her fondness of math, but we are getting through the work with less frustration each day. I think all the multiplication she learned last year has finally re-solidified after summer break. She likes fractions, money and making up her own word problems. Doesn't really prefer solving for "n" yet. Grammar is going well, doing things like diagramming sentences. We know enough about parts of speech now that I think Madlibs would be fun for her. She is still working on composition each week, memorizing bible verses, cursive, and memorizing the states and capitals. Her cursive is getting good enough that she can compose some stuff her self. The program we use is mostly copywork, copywork each week is the history fact we are memorizing, so it kind of kills two things at once!
Noelle is enjoying preschool. She loves the crafts! That girl would glitter/cut/paste/scribble things all day long. She told the teacher she would prefer being called Noelle Kibbe, not Noelle K. It is very funny to hear her whole name when we go to class. The other girl goes by Noelle D.
My yard needs raking for the foreseeable future. At least this fall has been good to our trees. The silver maples usually just fall off green in December, we are actually getting a little Fall yellow on them. Maybe that will keep my attitude better when I am raking in December. In other news I might order Christmas cards next week, and I already have a couple presents bought which make me feel good. I think I know everything I need to purchase for the first Christmas which will be on Thanksgiving.
Kids still need better lists. They want all the toys! I want them to have nice, well rounded, gets lots of play, worth cluttering up my house type of toys. Or memberships for experience type of things. Its a tricky thing to balance. The joy of opening a gift of exactly what you had hoped for verses a science center membership that we could get fun out of all year long, but doesn't have the immediate gratification.
Upwards flag football has come to a close, don't worry basketball season is knocking at our door. Dallas loved receiving a trophy at the awards ceremony. He also won a door prize, a weeks stay value at Hidden Acres camp! Lucky kid.
Noelle made her face pretty the night before family pictures. She used a Jesus stamper, and it took some serious scrubbing to remove.
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