It was a full day, and a beautiful one. I let everyone stay up just a smidgin late tonight. Moriah, Samuel and Toby played Fluxx together (Daddy’s birthday present), a fun card game where the rules are constantly changing. I snuggled up on the bed with Elsie and Peter and read The Magic School Bus gets Baked in a Cake (an uninspired book, but the company was good). Brush the teeth, and off to bed. God is good, and life is sweet.
Moriah can. She made Daddy’s traditional birthday cherry pie for him, doing all the work herself, but referring to Aunt Raquel when she needed reliable answers to her pie questions. We all were glad that Daddy shared his yummy pie with us.
But she is a young thing, and cannot leave her mother.
Yesterday we read more in Carry on, Mr. Bowditch. We are up to chapter 12 now. Nat has won his freedom from indentured servitude, is now learning French in addition to Latin, and is getting ready to sail for the first time Everyone is enjoying the story immensely.
Today and yesterday, the three older children worked on division.
Moriah found a Summer Skills Challenge in one of her books, and asked if she could do it. So I set her goals up to complete a double sided workbook page and read 30 minutes every day. After completing 20 days, she can pick out a book to buy in the library book sale room. Sounds like fun! Her workbook page today had cursive writing, and addition and subtraction.
Samuel and Aunt Raquel played a game of Stratego. It is fun and good for developing logical thinking skills.
There has been a flurry of reading since our library visit on Friday. Moriah read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, then finished Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator (in the same day!) She has read Little House on the Prairie in the last couple of days. too. Samuel reread some of his favorite Animorph books. He also read Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, and shared several choice parts with me that had tickled him. Toby has been reading, too, though the only book I can specifically remember seeing him with was Makuta’s Revenge. Elsie continues to read to herself more and more, though she still has a bad habit of guessing on words rather than sounding them out.
James got a charcoal grill for his birthday. I assembled it today, with help of course. Toby was an extra hand and I was glad to have him there. He followed along the directions with me, and puzzled out the diagrams. Elsie was amusing, though of little practical help. I found it funny that she kept forgetting the name of Daddy’s new appliance, and referring to it as “Daddy’s blender”. Peter carried the hammer for me.