Things are going really well so far this year with homeschooling the girls. The girls do their video courses for 4 of their online classes and then I teach them individually English, Literature/Reading, Spelling and Poetry. They all have said they enjoy the one-on-one time I give them as a teacher. So far we have straight A's and wonderful attitudes! The above picture is Haley reading with wonderful expression and clarity POOLSIDE!!!
The other day Haley was sitting in her bedroom "listening to her video lecture" while gazing outside and somehow she spotted a lizard swimming in the pool. She is SO easily distracted from school and I swear she has freekishly good vision to be able to see from her bedroom window such a small critter in the pool!
Oh, how this child loves her critters!
The poor lizard died later that day because I don't think the pool chemicals were good for it. Matthew thought he'd be funny and throw a lizard at me and I screamed and jumped so high I almost landed in the pool fully dressed....Thankfully the lizard he threw was a rubber one, but he got a good laugh out of scaring the absolute daylights out of me.
I've been teaching the girls a little each day how to cook in kind of a hands-on cooking class. One day for lunch Kylie chose to make Velveeta Mac and Cheese. I had her read the instructions herself to make her meal. She accidentally mis-read the instructions and added the packet of liquid cheese to the boiling water along with the noodles. She somehow missed the steps that said to boil the noodles first for 10 minutes, then drain them, THEN add the packet of liquid cheese. She was so unbelievably and uncharacteristically angry that she screamed, "Ohhhh!! I HATE HATE HATE cooking! I hate it! AHHHHH!!!!" She wasn't screaming AT me. She was just screaming into thin air. I went in my bedroom and closed the door to answer a phone call. I guess she assumed I was upset at her outburst, so she slid the following note under the door:
"Dear Mom, Sorry I yelled @ you. It's just that cooking frosterates me. Remind me not 2 cook again. Sorry if I spelt wrong. I love you. Love Kylie."
I love her tender heart to apologize over becoming "frosterated." She is always so quick to apologize. She's a precious girlie! She has since successfully cooked Velveeta Mac and Cheese!!! If at first you don't succeed, try, try again!
Bella, in her old age, has discovered how to jump over the baby gate to get out of the kitchen. I came out one morning and she was not in her kitchen, but comfy sleeping on the couch. Thankfully she didn't go through all the garbage cans and shred everything like she normally does!
Kylie is in the midst of her very first volleyball season. She is improving every day. She has made new friends and I'm so thankful she is dedicated to practice. Tim usually works with her a little each day on how to hit or serve the ball correctly. Volleyball is one game I never learned well. I just play sand volleyball whenever for fun, but I'm sure I don't hit the thing correctly. I'm just glad when I get the ball over the net! Anyway, it seems all Kylie does is practice, practice, practice!! She's amazingly disciplined in that way!
Fall is always such a busy time of year. We love it though! We are anxious for the weather to cool off a bit! This week has been in the 90's every day. Every weekend in September is full of something. We have Tim's birthday coming up. Next weekend is Kylie first volleyball tournament and Katie's first all-day craft fair of the season. The following week Katie has a youth group trip out of town to a theme park and Christian music concert. It's a good thing iPhone has a calendar so I can keep everything straight for these kids!
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