And the germs continue on… we are on the mend but not to healthy yet. Echo is running Ken through the wringer with 5:30 am wake ups. Thankfully he can safely pass out on the upstairs couch with the doors to places unsafe closed and she plays with her toys relatively quietly. Yours truly honestly has been so knocked out due to cold and cold medicine that I don’t even hear her! BUT in turn Ken gets afternoon naps (the joy of working from home) so it averages out. 

Today we jumped right into our school stuff with workbooks for all. In the wake of Zander’s completion of his Starfall book I have hunted him down a NEW reading workbook. I decided to go back to a Grade 1 book to cement more of the reading rules in his mind and build his confidence before heading into a Grade 2 level one. 

We began our assembly of our Inuit lapbook today. I think we assembled a decent amount of information and had a lot of fun doing it. I still plan on going back to the MAG to see the display another time either this week or more likely the next. We decided to take it slow as the boys are still getting over THEIR colds and glued in some things, finished up some of the mini booklets and generally talked about what we saw. Here is a video Ken took on their field trip yesterday.

This afternoon they boys worked together with our red blocks to create some sort of game that only they truly understood the rules on. There were many many rules and lots of pieces and 3 very happy boys – most of the time. So a successful play time. 

The game

Tuesday usually means library time for Emanuel and Trinity but as Ken is now as sick as the rest of us have been and Karyn is out for the count as well we decided not to plan the outing. Instead it was time at home with daddy and slurpee. 

Playing the "game"

So hopefully the second half of the week will find us ALL healthier… At least Echo’s nose is not running so much and Trinity seems happier. I would love to walk into March healthy, especially with Echo’s surgery coming up! Wish us luck!

We also saw Uncle Sean off to his folks' place. Time for some parental spoiling while he continues to wait for his foot to heal!