Four weeks into school and I’m not ready to throw in the towel!  Hurray for us!  We’ve had lots of ups and downs, and I won’t say it’s been easy, but I didn’t sign up for easy, so that’s ok!   The first two weeks were great and things seemed to flow pretty well.  Then last week everything came to a screeching halt-literally.  Liberty was teething and screeched all day every day.  It was Very hard to do school with all the hollering… hers and mine!  And this week she just decided she wanted more attention and screeched about that instead.   She has always been content to crawl around and explore and has been a happy independent baby.  But now that she sees others getting lots of attention I think she decided she wanted her share.  We had a really rough week because her noise made it impossible for me to concentrate while working with the others and I was grouchier with them which made them grouchier with each other.  Unfortunately it’s true-If Mama ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy (and no one can learn anything either!) 

This week we finally figured out the right timing for her and the boys.  While I do a subject with one, the other boy plays with Liberty.  She had a blast crawling all over the house, something she doesn’t usually get to do.  But with a brother trailing behind her she can climb the big stairs and play in some of the bedrooms upstairs.  She loved the freedom and was happy as a clam.  And the big brother got one on one time with Libby which is hard to come by with other brothers vying for her attention.  Everybody wins!  We also do quiet time later so as to do more of our joint subjects like history and science while she’s napping.  

This week’s field trip: Apple Picking!

We learned all about how apples grow and then we headed to the orchard.  We had a big rainstorm the night before and as we drove to the orchard, I told the boys there would probably be a lot of puddles.  Reagan’s response was, “Cool!” and then Cade said, “Coool!” and then Levi said, “Cooool!”.  (I hadn’t really meant it to be good news, but boys will be boys I guess. ) 




We went home and had apples and apple dip and apple cider for lunch!  Yummy!  The boys decided they want to make this a yearly tradition and I agree!