Tumbling, Dinos, and Band-aids, oh my!

So far this week....

Joy School was at our house. We talked about creativity. One of the definitions that lessons give is simply creating something by yourself. Pretty cool and basic definition, I feel like I can fall into that category! Skyler said I came up with a fun activity for them to do. Little does he know I come up with nothing when it comes to Joy School!

Skyler had tumbling. Jonah gets really excited about going too, since he tends to participate in some things.

Jordan started planting our garden (or was that last week?). Skyler likes going outside to help him. Jonah likes playing in the mud. Jordan also started prepping the yard for the railroad tie retaining wall that he'll start on this weekend.

We went to the Natural History Museum with the cub scouts. The big thing here is the dinosaur bones. We've been once before but Skyler had no desire to check them out and Jonah was too little. Jonah is very into dinos right now, so he loved it. He also thought the fish tank was cool because he loves fishies!

Skyler has started reading. He was frustrated that he couldn't read the words that would pop up on the screen when he played Wii (who says video games are bad?) so he said he wanted to learn to read. We borrowed some readers from a friend who has a daughter in kindergarten and he's starting to get the whole blending thing down (which has been his biggest struggle thus far - he'd just say each letter sound and then move onto the next word without putting the sounds together!)

Skyler pinched his palm in the folding door to the laundry area. It left a mark that was about a half an inch long. This was right before leaving for the museum and he was refusing to go because his hand hurt, so Jordan offered to wrap it up just like he used to wrap his own ankle to play volleyball. Suddenly, all was right in Skyler's world. Despite the fact that he still looks so sad in this picture. He kept it on until after the museum and then happily took it off and hasn't complained about it since.

 

Now on to next week!As soon as this one is over, I guess.