We are over run with Thomas freebies. Of course we got into Toys R Us and were faced with the inevitable – I want to buy… even though we sat them down and talked them through the – we are only here to get the freebies and see what is there NOT buy talk. Thank goodness the freebies included colouring pages, stickers and posters and each of the 4 big kids got a set. We didn’t manage to time our drop in at the store well enough for the short story time but we did have fun looking through the Babies R Us section. A friend sent us a gift card (I finally got her thank you card popped in the mail on Friday) and right now is sale time in that section, but we were unable to settle on anything just yet.

Trinity and her stash

The next stop – Michaels with a 40% off coupon and a mission – to find out yearly Halloween foam project. Last time we did a pirate ship, well Ken and the boys did. This is THEIR project with Daddy so I don’t get to make the choice but I have to say I think this year’s project looks like fun!

Haunted treehouse!

I finished all of the stitching on the needle case kit last night. Now I have to sit down and figure out assembly. I love the look of it… and cannot wait to have it all done.

Ready for assembly

Ken made the kids up a meal using their tomatoes from the little garden we attempted this summer. Eggs, tomatoes and sausage and all 4 seemed to approve!

Mmm (Gavin yellow)

Tomorrow is Emanuel’s very first Sunday School class session EVER… VERY exciting. Which  leaves Trinity, Echo and myself home to hold down the fort. Ken suggested we watch Shrek and I am planning on snacks… or stickers and paper… or well whatever Trinity wants. She HATES being left behind though!

I have taken full advantage of our toner and gotten to work on the dinosaur lapbook print outs. Gavin finished his Lightning McQueen’s workbook today, I think I have finally gotten through to him what subtraction is, but he is a very visual learner and definitely cannot just look at the numbers and figure it out. I am trying to find ways to work us up to the number 100… that is my year’s goal – 1-100, addition and subtraction for basic math, working on money and time, weight/scales… I am still working on my write up to show the facilitator. It makes me VERY glad we are starting at the beginning… at this age there is room for wiggling and trial and error.

Gavin subtracting

So the kids went to bed around 8… and Echo has grounded me to my chair for the time being… so either gaming or labelling of pictures but this blog entry should be posted!

The result of an afternoon's work (no parental assistance!!)