Friday is in our sights now! Which means in the morning we are off to Public Health to weigh and measure Echo (still no doctor’s appointment but the doctor is back from holiday next week). That meant that today was an “at home” day for the kids and myself (Ken still had errands to run).

Little sweety

Back to the adding and subtracting worksheets for the twins. Ken is trying to work out our payment order so I can order the things I need to progress from where we are according to my plan. I am admittedly getting a little anxious about the whole thing. I just want to get going with everything. With how the worksheets are going over I am hoping to find some Addition and Subtraction workbooks at the Education Station. Less printing out for me and more of a forward movement in the complication of the pages.

Zander still at work on his Lightning McQueen

I am trying to push the boys harder with more complicated sheets. Today’s challenge for Gavin was a dinosaur picture where you follow a series of instructions to colour and further finish the picture. His page was about the Brachiosaurus.

Gavin's completed worksheet

I am having some problems getting the twins back focused on learning to read but with my huge leap forward with Gavin understanding how to subtract I am still feeling like I am making a difference. Their printing has improved too, just not their willingness to learn to read for themselves.

It is still a bit of a shock, the fact that we are almost to October. I am not sure if we will celebrate Thanksgiving but Halloween and Fall are of great interest for the boys. I have a bucket of crafts completed and to do for Halloween specifically. Thankfully Ken already found that bucket and it is sitting in our bedroom as this weekend I am going to have to sort through and get them ready. Last year we made black and orange paper chains and the year before bats. This year I already have some colouring pages off of  the Michaels site and our foam craft to do with Ken. For fall we are going to make Leaf Print Note Cards for sure, other than that I am still in the thinking stage.

The twins spent some of their afternoon out on their bikes in the backyard. We are definitely needing to get them BIGGER ones for next year! But they do have fun in the backyard.After biking they moved  to creating a little sitting corner to enjoy the view. I love it when they get creative!

Time on the bikes (Zander red)

Emanuel spent some time himself  on his workbook. He has not shown too much interest the past week or two but today was all about it.

Working on the letter I

And while he did that Gavin and Trinity coloured together using her jumbo crayons.

Gavin and Trinity

I managed to get the kids’ yearly pictures printed out at Walmart this week. They had an anniversary sale with their 8×10’s 2.00 a piece. It is awfully late I know for pictures  taken in February and April BUT they are going up and I am going to hold off on changing any of the ones around the house until we move. IT is just not worth the hassle when I am not sure if we are going to be able to hang everything I have up now in a new place.

Now that I have the Facebook event posted for the Baptism I have to make sure I let everyone else know – SUNDAY OCTOBER 24TH at 11 am at Trinity Lutheran church, if you are planning on attending let me know (email, msn, phone etc) so we know what we are at number wise for lunch etc. I am rather excited – our last one!

Now if I could just get our upstairs into some semblance of order before our facilitator gets here on Wednesday….

Talking on the cell phone with Daddy