small wonders

 

This past week we had some very cold weather, which kept us inside more than usual. The boys had some epic play going on, with games that have been going on for days, being set up and taken down and set back up again. We are moving on to a math block now, with a place value unit which is going to be good fun- a story about a castle being won by counting up all the jewels in the kingdom-  and then working together to sort and count a huge pile of "jewels" (beans) of our own. This sort of hands-on and image rich activity really suits my active, story-lovin' boy.

I came downstairs with Willa on Saturday morning and both boys were already awake and busy on projects. Dorian had stapled together some papers and was busy illustrating a book and dictating words to Perry, and Ari was writing a King Midas story on the computer (he's never typed anything up before, so he was very excited!) At the end of Dori's book he drew pictures and titles of several other books in his book series, and he has gone on to complete several of these over the course of the weekend. I love homeschooling.

 I am knitting so slowly these days, but getting somewhere with a few projects. I have a couple baby girl projects in the works, including this little maxi-dress that I found half finished in the bottom of my knitting basket and picked back up again. Also something for my dear, patient sister, who just might get it by her half-birthday!

And Willa, oh my, this baby! She has my heart. She is utter sweetness. She is scootching backwards on her belly now, and playing peekaboo by pulling blankets over her head and then pulling them off again when we say "where's Willa?" And when I gave her that apple to play with she surprised me by spending an hour carefully peeling the skin of with her new teeth, spitting it out and sort of mashing it against her teeth to slowly carve away at it. Brilliant, this baby of mine.

We had a lovely long weekend together, slow days mostly at home, really enjoying some time as a family. We even managed to get a few things done off the list! Couldn't every weekend be a 3 day one?

Happy Monday, friends.