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This has been a pretty uneventful week. Now the weekend, that'll be another story. School has been going swimmingly, though I've added another student to my roster. Sawyer has decided that he wants to do his lessons, too. There's just no holding some kids back! Funny how when they're not even in Kindergarten they're so eager to learn; funnier still that that same eagerness doesn't expand much past the second grade! No, I'm kidding. We're about to start covering the Civil War, something I've been looking forward to for about four years now, so we've been studying slavery quite a bit. The kids have been appropriately shocked and appalled by that dark period in our history. Tyler is outraged by the treatment that many slaves received at the hands of cruel slaveowners, while Darcy doesn't even want to HEAR about it! She is very squeamish--does anybody remember her reaction when Peyton split her head open a couple of years ago? Darcy still doesn't like to talk about that incident, and it didn't even happen to her!
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At least it's not a cat :)
Excellent point! But just in case . . . don't give him any ideas, okay?!
We have a praying mantis is a jar in the backyard. Maddi is my bug hunter in our family . We have got her a magnifing glass to look at them with. That works for her. We say look with you eye and not your hands.
Bugs are very interesting. Maybe he will be an entomologist. He will always have a job, bugs are never going away.
An Xbox is ok. Just think when one is on the computer the other can be playing the xbox and not bothering the one on the computer for his turn.
Kelly, having to look with a magnifying glass ONLY would never do for Sawyer. He is very hands-on! You'd have to go pretty far back in my blog but I have written about Sawyer's penchant for dissecting bugs before--only they're still alive! He just can't seem to help himself!
Lynn, you are such an optimist! You're right, Sawyer would never be unemployed, that's for sure!
As for the X-Box, I've given the kids this week to get the "newness" out of their system by letting them play each day (although none of them played yesterday), but next week I'm cracking the whip!
Oh he's too cute! He just looks so proud holding his squished grasshopper!
Yes, I remember when Peyton had her accident and how she was described as being SO BRAVE during her treatment!
Yes, her recollection of the incident is not that she had a gaping head wound, but that she got TWO popsicles and a stuffed bear!
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