The week is quickly coming to a close and I think I have FINALLY determined what we are doing this week – finishing! I found a couple of the older Prek workbooks the twins have been working on in the past and put them in their folders. We are actually trying something slightly different, last night I filled up a folder for each boy with their name on it with math pages, some dot to dots, unfinished PreK workbooks and such and had them choose what they wanted to do and how much.

Gavin went all out on his unfinished number workbook from Sesame Street and almost finished the whole thing, proving that his grasp on the number 13 is improving (for some reason when they count often they leave that number out??). Emanuel is continuing his work on his PreK lapbook!

Working hard

Zander did considerably less but volunteered to go out and do part of their daily summer/fall chore and pick up all the good apples and some of the bad. The hope is to get as many as possible cleaned up this week BEFORE the leaves join the apples on the ground. This also has me hopping on the applesauce trying to use up what are definitely BIGGER and REDDER apples this year. All that rain has done wonders on the apples but the raspberries… not so much.

Zander and Emanuel picking up apples... sort of

Trinity and Echo have done some more bonding, mostly Trinity discussing where Echo’s nose is, and telling me all about her. During my bath Echo spit up all over herself so she got an impromptu shower with Daddy that went rather well.

Explaining where her nose is

I left out a craft today in favour of another trip out to the fountains at the legislature. The weekend weather report is looking rather nice but with so much other stuff stuffed into it as well as the inevitable busier time at any of the “fun places” in the city we opted for today. Tomorrow I have promised (as long as the weather is nice) to put the sprinkler on and refill the pool… oh and slip them some freezies IF the apples are mostly cleaned up.

Emanuel, Zander and Gavin

Me and My BIG Girl!

Of course 5 min into that event – on a perfect day – no one else around at the little fountain and only one family over at the “pool,” Gavin starts crying… he jumped off of something and fell and hit his head! With swim shoes on and everything and right after I had said – be careful! Luckily we got him sitting down and holding a wipe to his head to see if the bleeding would stop, which gave me the time to get Trinity into the fountain for some play before we left or we would have had a 6 yr old in tears AND a VERY angry 2 yr old. It pretty much stopped bleeding but looked total ick so we packed everyone up, went through McD’s drive through (no supper yet of course), dropped the other 4 kids and myself off and picked up something for Gavin and Ken to do at the hospital and sent them off to emergency. Gavin was actually MORE upset about not getting to play more at the fountain than the wound. With our weather quickly changing I am not sure we will make it back but we will make it up to them – either the park or zoo or something!

Watching cartoons and waiting for Gavin

After a couple hours at emergency they were able to head home with the injury glued together (?), if that holds we are golden, if not he has to go back in to emergency and get one stitch. So fingers crossed the glue is the solution!

All glued up, Ken took a picture of the wound but I won't share that one here.

In order to keep my mind off the one child that was NOT here, I did a bit of crafting – one more page for Echo done and ready to go into her book…

Brothers and Sisters

and some dishes, tidying and chasing of the 3 that are here and mobile. Thank goodness for PVRed tv!

We got some mail today from my brother and his family. They were planning to make the trip up this weekend but Holly and my nephew Jimmie caught colds. Which is totally too bad – we have not seen them since last Christmas. But I have high hopes for us making it 3 hours south of here SOMETIME in the foreseeable future.

New clothes for Echo

Scrapbook and a movie for the big kids

So a relatively sedate day totally went wild by the end! But we are all in basically one piece and home for the evening which is a definite plus. The rest of the night I have to get back to work on that stocking and hopefully talk designs with Ken, who is now hours behind on HIS schedule for the evening. Serves us right for making an evening timeline when we have 5 kids!!!

I just can't help but take more pictures!