The Tooth Fairy Does NOT Work on Sundays

Yesterday Isabel finally lost her yellowing top front snaggle tooth. Why is it so difficult for me to remember to be the tooth fairy? This morning our lame excuse was that the tooth fairy doesn't work on Sundays. Luke helped out by adding, "Yeah, like the mailman" (which by the way he just found out about. Yesterday he tried to get the mail.) Last tooth that I forgot to be the fairy for we were staying in a hotel so the excuse was that the Tooth Fairy couldn't find her. I CAN'T forget again tonight.

Latitude and Longitude

From the book, Latitude and Longitude by Rebecca Aberg, we learned about (what else but) latitude and longitude. They learned words like, equator, prime meridian, hemisphere and grid. We looked at the lat. and long. lines on our globe and atlas. Afterward with a ruler, pencil and paper, they made their own world with a grid labeled abc... and 123... Luke got really into his own imaginary world with scores of islands named Toon Island, Discover Island, Wow Isle, Kid's League Island and on and on. It sounds like that was a great lesson there, but they were driving me nuts today. I don't know if it's because I am not in a very flexible mood or if they were indeed extra crazy, touching everything, interrupting skipping off, etc. And Sylvia didn't help by stripping down naked and escaping outside during everything. Tomorrow we are just going swimming. (and maybe math and reading.)

A Brief Summary

Luke finished Harry Potter 2 (whatever 2 is called) for the second time.  The girls listened/looked at a bunch of books on tape.  Luke and I put a load of pennies in order by their date (just because.)  Isabel made us Macaroni and Cheese all by herself.  They did their Math.  We picked up their friends, Aden and Morgan (track break) and now they are playing.