- Summer is over! The kids are back in school!
- C is a 7th grader now and is over at the junior high/high school building (it's a PK-12 school). She has the full dignity of her own locker. It's an 8 period day, 20 minutes longer than the 6th grade day, but she does have study halls in the morning.
- C has an elective first period (study hall), a block of academic classes with everybody else in her grade, then a final 8th period elective that she has some freedom over (that's a little up in the air, as her first choice was cancelled for lack of enrollment).
- There's going to be a Greek club!
- D is starting 4th grade! Latin! Physics!
- Extracurriculars are also up in the air right now. We'll be doing CCD for both kids (at a different parish than the past 7 years). We'd like for C to do therapeutic riding and weekly guitar and for both kids to do fencing, but we're currently figuring out the logistics for that.
- For reasons beyond our control, there's no PE for C this fall (complicated reasons having to do with C not being in official school sports and the school being small, so they can't afford both fall and spring PE for a tiny group of children). That's kind of a pain, but we will try to compensate.
- Baby T is talking a bunch and likes it. She often makes funny comprehension mistakes--she thought that "fat" meant "cat" and that "on line" had something to do with lions. She LOVES animals. I have bought her clothes accordingly--she owns two cat shirts, a horse shirt, zebra pants and cheetah pjs.
- Baby T is bummed out that the DVD player in the new-to-us minivan is broken. She says "moo" for movies.
- Baby T can make sad faces on command.
- Baby T was SAD to hear that mommy has no tail.
- Baby T loves puzzles, but isn't yet up to doing jigsaw puzzles independently.
- Husband and C and D have been watching movies on our ceiling with the projector.
- We now have a huge solid pine dining table from IKEA. The old dining table (1998-2014) was set out on the curb and disappeared--it was simply not big enough for our family anymore, and certainly not for if we have any company. I expect that the new table will dent up, being pine, but it is very generously sized--it's big without leaves, and with two leaves it's supposed to seat 10. (We got the biggest brown-black Stornas table.)
- The IKEA trip is totally different with a DVD player. In fact, aside from driver fatigue, there's really no obstacle to our doing longer trips now.
- Furniture for D is next on the agenda. Christmas? We also will eventually be getting a larger leather sofa, probably in chocolate brown.
- C is still working at Scarborough Fair on the guitar. She has also bought a ukulele with her own money and has been working at that, too. I think D is softening up to the idea of music lessons.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Ukulele
Here's some of what's happening:
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2 comments:
Awesome! We have the same dining room tables now...! So glad to hear that the kids are doing great and that you are loving your new minivan. T sounds like such a great talker these days! Mariette has little use for words and finds that roaring like a lion gets her mostly what she wants. Take care!!
Awwww.
I've been thinking about getting Baby T a lion suit for Halloween.
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