Learning By The Way

After lunch, I gave Samuel the task of cutting down the tree that tries to grow every year between our backyard sidewalk and the garage. His eyes lit up at the thought of being entrusted with such a satisfying job involving a sharp implement. Toby begged to help, and when I discovered that we have TWO limb saws, I assigned him a different upstart under the deck. They both completed their assignments without loss of blood, and were quite pleased with themselves. Moriah dug up some garlic that had sprouted up in our compost pile, and did some weeding.

Toby continues to be happy he can do division, he worked on dividing by 5 today. Moriah and Samuel did multiplication.

I thought that Moriah’s last ballet class of the summer was today. However, we discovered upon arriving at a very quiet ballet studio that her last class was last week. Ooops. All dressed up in her favorite ‘leo’ and nowhere to dance. She didn’t really mind though, as we had dinner planned with the Ben-Ezras and she got an extra hour to play with her friends before we ate.

It started out with me granting a rare permission to get out all the pots and pans and silverware and have a percussion band. Moriah was the conductor, and it was noisy. I went downstairs for a few minutes…

When I returned, they had moved the whole shebang in onto my bed! Then they came up with head drums and simultaneous toe drumming and cymbal playing. Noting the change of venue and choice of intrument, I believe the obvious choice of moniker would be “The Bed Pan Band”.

Elsie helped me rinse off all the pots and put them away.