As usual, I've been busy at life and delinquent at blogging. What have we been up to lately, you ask?I'll give you the low-down by family member . . .
Alicia: Washing dishes, cooking meals, reading Alice in Wonderland to Chloe, baking cupcakes, singing Fifty Nifty United States, researching school options for next year, surviving attacks of low blood sugar, wiping noses, eating large amounts of pepperoni, shoveling snow, and playing scrabble on Facebook.
Matt: Preparing English lectures, playing cars and trucks with Clive, reading books about DeSoto to the kids at bedtime, teaching Chloe Latin, reading Taming of the Shrew (his current Shakespeare-for-fun read), folding laundry with me while watching cheesy science-fiction flicks, playing cribbage, and consuming carrots.
Chloe: Losing both her front teeth, reading whenever she gets the chance (today in the car I turned on some music and she said impatiently, "Please turn it down mom, I'm trying to read!"), practicing the piano, drawing, playing with Barbies, snuggling with me on the couch to do school, crafting a "snow grouch" (not good enough packing snow for a true snowman), flitting around like a fairy, and being generally annoyed by her younger brother.Clive: Playing with his cars and trucks, watching Richard Scarry dvds, spouting ridiculous and unexpected sayings in an unbelievably cute 3-year-old voice, warming my heart with his huge grin, mowing the snow with his lawnmower, coloring, creating general disorder and loudness, helping me bake muffins, and building garages for his construction machine toys.
Solomon: Climbing stairs, cruising around furniture, laughing hysterically when tickled in the tummy, trying to feed himself and making disgusting messes, smiling like the sunshine, suffering from a double ear infection, and cutting more teeth.
That's what we've been up to in a nutshell! What have you been doing this month?
3 comments:
Oh my goodness! Suddenly I feel very lazy. I think you have one busy household, Alicia! Your kids are so very, very cute. I hope you get to have a relaxing weekend & hopefully dig out from under all the snow!
whew! sounds busy to me, but fun too! We read Alice in Wonderland in January. When we started it, Gavin was against it, but one I closed the book after the last page he said, "can we read that again!?"
Mary Ann: Believe me, it's not that busy or exciting! Just life with three active rambunctious kiddos. YOUR life sounds busy to me! I don't know how you squeeze in time to do all your 1/2 marathon training!
Suzanne: We're loving the book but I find myself having to explain a lot to Chloe since the vocab and syntax is so old and English. She gets it though and the zany silliness is perfect for her age! What other read-alouds have you guys enjoyed? I've got to line up what we're going to read next.
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