Lungs

Today we learned about the lungs.

Here is Luke's body.  I love it how his bladder is falling out the crotch.  Isabel's is pretty funny too since she used girly decorative scissors to cut out her lungs.  Sylvia has only one of her lungs for some reason and she drew a happy face on it.   As you can see we still have some more main body parts to go but we are getting there.

Today Luke finished his Super Bouncy Ball Two and is already planning a third Bouncy Ball story.  Who knew a bouncy ball could have so many adventures.  Isabel takes forever to do her math, the sole reason being she insists on drawing each number in a pretty bubbly way.  I still need to do more reading with both of them today.  Maybe Joey will be up to it.  Does anyone have any suggestions on books for boys?  I have trouble keeping Luke supplied with books to read.  He is too fast.  He likes fantasy or adventure.  Let me know.

School at the Car Dealership

Our van had an appointment today for a lot of service that I knew would take a while. Having Joey take the van in, taking the van in without the kids, or going home while the service is being done are all not options. To make the most of our situation, we bought some Costco hot dogs (I think I have mentioned Costco hot dogs way too many times on this blog) and brought our bag of school with us. For two and a half hours, we ate lunch and got our school done. It was great and I didn't even come close to strangling anyone ("anyone" includes my children or the service people!)

Even More Safety Nerd Proof

Last week, somehow it came up that Luke and Isabel didn't know about the Titanic, so while we were eating lunch I told them the story (my own very brief and general knowledge about it.) Then, today Luke read on a Nevada license plate "The Silver State" and I explained that Nevada is called the silver state because they used to mine for silver in the Nevada mountains. I then told them (more of my very brief knowledge) about the 1849 California Gold Rush. Realizing that they had never heard these stories before, made them seem new to me as well, and I felt a sense of reappreciativeness (absolutely not a word.) But do you get what I mean? Okay, so here is the safety nerd part: This is all Luke gets out of the historic stories I've recently told them....

"Things that happened in the past really make you not want to do things, like ever go on a boat." --Luke a.k.a. Safety Nerd

In my opinion, that is taking "learn from the past" a little bit too far.