Another week begun and of to a halfway decent start. One of the benefits to having two capable 6 year old boys – chores! Before starting on their sheets the swept the floor and cleaned their table.

blurry cuz they would not stop cleaning for a picture!

Gavin spent almost all of his school time working on a rather complicated word search – dinosaur themed of course! The words were varying and unfamiliar but he trucked through them. And then after I read the list to him and we talked about each one. I am not sure how much he retained but it was a great start pushing past pictures of dinosaurs and simple concepts into archaeology and dinosaur types.

So proud (Gavin)

We also had a bedtime story tonight – Dinosaurs! by Gail Gibbons. Lots of big words but the kids enjoyed it.

Storytime (Gavin left)

Echo and I have been in a battle of wills today.She is absolutely sure I don’t have anything to do other than hold her and I disagree. So the compromise as included lots of snuggling and as much sewing as I can sneak in between binky retrieval and 2 hand required holding.

Oh and in a big surprise we were working on our calendar and trying to figure out what day today was… I said there is a 2 and a 0 so what is that number and TRINITY piped up TWENTY!!!! What ???  And before anyone else got a chance to say anything and then repeated herself again when we asked… the boys said THEY have been teaching her… I guess that must be it, we have done a TON of counting with me doing a lot of the 1 through 20 with them so maybe she caught on? If so she is doing best out of all of them! CRAZY

Checking out September (Zander left)

Sadly Ken did not meet his deadline though I think I am winning him over to the Lisa way of chores, AKA not leaving everything to the LAST MOMENT! But he has made great inroads on what he has worked on and hopefully by Wednesday will see some final results. But now that I am free of little miss cranky pants for a few minutes (Ken is taking a turn) I will post this and get to work on completing her stocking.

Mommy's ring