Triangles and Upside down day
This morning, after the children completed their math workbook page, we did some bonus geometry. I found a fun book at the library called Shape Up! and we did the interactive lesson on triangles.
The children used a cheese slice and pretzel sticks to learn about how triangles are classified by their line length (scalene, isosceles, equilateral) and by their angles (right, obtuse, and acute). And then they ate them. 
The book covers other shapes, too. We’ll do those lessons in the next few days if I can collect the proper foodstuffs.
The B-E’s and Kathey came over for their regular Wednesday night dinner. Raquel has taken over dinner duty for me so that I can concentrate more on doing getting ready for baby things. She planned a special “Upside down, inside out, backwards Day” dinner. She hung balloons from the ceiling in a bunch to resemble helium balloon set on the ‘floor’. Streamers decorated the floor. Moriah made “This Side Up” signs and then hung them up upside down, so that the arrow pointed to the floor. All our pictures were rehung upside down. The children really got into it, and wore their clothes inside out. On the menu was inside out tacos and pineapple upside down cake.
A lovely time was had by all (well, I think so, anyway). Though the three youngest Ben-Ezras (who will remain unamed) perhaps could have left a little sooner than they did. The two youngest were having tired meltdowns, and the third one up (who shares a name with one of my sons) managed to get a respectable gash in his head from a sudden meeting with a radiator during a pillow fight. OUCH! That cast iron doesn’t have much give to it. Thankfully, it stopped bleeding pretty quickly, and should heal fine.
Oh, and the after dinner chat was interrupted by the breaking news that water was coming through the bathroom ceiling upstairs. We were unsure as to whether this had to do with rain on a newly leaking roof or having turned on the boiler today. Neither option being particularly appealing and either possibly very expensive. James narrowed it down to having to do with the heating system, and called his dad for advice on what to do next. The leaking stopped with the pump turned off, which is good for our bathroom ceiling. James bled all the radiators (did you know that radiator blood is invisible?!), and they seem to be heating and functioning well. Still, a call to Meister Plumbing, Heating, and Electric is probably in our future.
Yep, just another day at the Lansberry house.