Wednesday and Thursday October 1 and 2, 2014

Yesterday we waited for Amy to clean the bathrooms, then went to Lowes for a mailbox then went to Babies R Us for a Baby Gate then went to Sprouts Market for some on-sale produce. We finally got home, all cleaned the downstairs bathroom, and ate some lunch. After lunch we painted the mailbox. Reading and writing class failed to catch kids' attention. However, because the purpose of the mailbox was to send notes and pictures and such fun things to each other, the girls kept coming back and having reading and writing class all day. It was a hit.

This morning we went to a neighbor's house to clean with others in the Relief Society. The woman had hurt her back and couldn't clean her house. I'll tell you what, a whole crew of women cleaning a whole house in a flash is amazing and like a dream for me. Months worth of work (at my pace) in a few hours. Incredible.

Anyway. On our way home, Amy suggested we go play for her activity. So we grabbed bikes and books and left for the park. We stopped on corners to read a book about sense of touch for our class. The point was that we could then touch things and experience what we learned. The best example was that we kept talking about receptors in our skin that detected hot, cold, and pain. We talked about that a few times.

When the girls didn't want to stop riding bikes to read, I took a nap on the tennis court. That felt awesome.

Then home. We read a chapter of Homer Price (the doughnuts chapter - classic) while I nursed. We never did get to the lunch portion of the day. Reading and writing class was only marginally interesting again. When I asked if the girls were just ready for school to be over they agreed. When I said that that meant it was time for them to clean up their fort, they suddenly wanted to go read and write. Noel read Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy by herself. (Awesome!) And she dictated to me a story about magically jumping from one big rock to another to get places faster (like across whole blocks.) She had made up the idea this morning, and we had discussed it a few times. Cool!