We visited Joey's family in Saint George, Utah. The city of Saint George is in a very dry desert with red rocks, black volcanic rocks and sand dunes. On Saturday at the museum we learned that approximately 195 million years ago it was a lush area with a large lake.
The museum is located on the discover site of hundreds of dinosaur tracks, swim tracks, tail tracks, fish fossils, etc. They are still in the process of building the museum, but half of it is opened and was fun and interesting. It will be fun to go back again when it is completed. Their dinotrax website has great pictures and information.
Today was kind of a worksheet day. On days that I must do things around the house (today I am packing for our weekend trip to Saint George) I look on the internet and print off some fun things for them to do. I went to SuperKids.com and made a word search for them consisting of their names, the cats names, etc. Luke liked this What Number Am I crossword and Isabel and I did this Onomatopoeia one together.
Isabel drew a picture for great-grandma Kay and Luke wrote and drew all about his Kids league characters that he has made stories out of. It is fun for me to imagine how delighted (and very confused) she will be when she reads it. Isabel took a math test and Luke is learning how to tell time.
This morning Sylvia "helped" me make Amish Friendship Bread while Luke wrote another Super Luke story and Isabel colored some Barbie pictures. They did their math worksheets and played hopscotch outside. Luke also created a hopscotch maze. This is all with sidewalk chalk on the driveway. Isabel rode her scooter and I pushed Sylvia in her stroller. We then drove around and delivered the bread to some of my friends.
This week in the afternoons I've started having one on one time with Sylvia. I've been realizing that too many times I just want to keep her busy so that she is not in the way while Luke Isabel and I are doing school together. I know she needs my attention and I have been thinking that maybe if she gets that from me, then she will not feel the need to act out so much....yeah right. I read to her out of her nursery rhymes book and she loves it. She now expects it and brings me the book shouting "NURSERY RHYMES! NURSERY RHYMES!" Her favorite one is To Market which she has me recite over and over again.
Later today we will play the new Super Luke Kid's League board game that Luke invented last night. A book series that Luke likes now is Cracked Classics by Tony Abbott. I guess the idea is that these two kids go to the library and go into a book. Luke is reading the Treasure Island book, X Marks the Spot.
