Random stuff we've been doing.

Playing in the water in Saint George, UT

Me giving my snotty look.  (My back hurt!)

This is "Fast Horn" the caterpillar with Luke's reflection.  Poor Fast Horn was trained to tightrope walk and was eventually loved to death.

Luke and Joey went for a hike together.  They found a desert plant they liked and replanted it into our backyard.

Sylvia's favorite thing at the Lied Children's Museum was to dress up and dance on stage.

Isabel loved being a checker...

And a singer.

Luke loved being in a video game via green screen.

He's the little character on the left.

Eat at Taco Bell

Yesterday we went through Taco Bell's drive through.  I normal don't get the kid's meals, but Isabel wasn't ordering anything and Luke wanted a meal so I said sure.  The toy is a computer disc called Neptune Quest.  It's a "create your own comics!"  It's pretty cool.  You can pick out what layout you want, what background or setting, the characters including what size and where they are placed, speech bubbles and you type in what you want them to say.  Luke spent this morning "creating" and then printing his own comic.

Postcards and Word Problems

Yesterday the kids wrote postcards to their great-grandmother. They didn't even know what a postcard was, is that sad? Also after dinner, Joey had us listen to a How to Speak Mandarin Chinese podcast. Sylvia is the best at the pronunciation. This morning we went swimming with some friends. We then spent the afternoon at Darby Gwin's house. She is a woman in our church that had an anurism (sound it out) and needs someone there at all times to help her if she needs to get up for anything, bathroom, etc. We brought along math, worksheets and reading and then the rest of the time the kids played and watched a cartoon upstairs.

Luke is great at math but it is difficult for him to stay focused. I am sure (hope) this is a problem for a lot of parents with their children. He complains that it takes too long but spends time drawing hair or faces on his numbers and staring at the wall. While holding his hand (figuratively) through math today I realized that he is much better at word problems than he is at just the written down number problems. Very curious.