A post card Cups wrote to Bella from Vancouver Island. "Hi, Bella. I am at a camping site in Vancover Island. I am with my mom's cousin, his wife and baby. We are staing for three days. It is very pretty. You would like it here, accept the leaves stick to you. They would get stuck in your fur. The baby abby is very atventures, she likes to take walkes into the bushes. from Liz" Reynold and Joy, did you enjoy this? :D
Gofres' project on the wall at school. He was the only one that had colored his apples in different colors.
I was most impressed with Gofres' handwriting, especially after I had pointed out that some of his "sticks" were not long enough a couple times without making a difference. Since I put this on the dining room wall of recognition, he has looked at the sight words often, and I have found him tracing the letters with his finger once.
Gofres biked outside the Fremont Brewery during the weekend that Auntie Tina visited. Cups got herself a little air plant. She has shown an interest in plants recently.
Cups painted faces at a local fall festival event and helped attract traffic to the West Seattle Timebank booth. A lot of people liked her spider hair.
She attracted quite a crowd towards the end of the event and had ongoing traffic the whole two and half hours. Tireless and dedicated.
After the event she rewarded herself with some fake nails, eye make up (to go with her princess Halloween outfit) and lip balm.
First sick day! Gofres slept through a fever that ran all night and morning and declined my offer to take him him to school for the afternoon when he felt good enough to drink hot chocolate. (He had thrown up a little of his breakfast that morning, so he was careful to not eat anything until 5pm.) Whenever he's run a fever in the past, he's just slept through it. He has slept a whole day, waken up for a couple hours and gone to bed for the night no problem. Those times he recovered completely without symptoms by the next day. Growth spurts?! He seems taller, too, at the end of the week.
Gofres has been driven when it comes to doing his homework Monday through Wednesday. (And he is open to doing extra work on the other days when his mom has it together.) He works right through so that he can go play. His attention span can be pretty incredible.
Cups drew me in my Cookie Monster costume, holding Kit Kat bars, for her Spanish assignment.
The kindergarten students stamped with apples cut in half after they had used the apples for a STEM project. They had to build carts to carry apples to the farmer. The teacher also made apple sauce with some of the apples, and Gofres claimed to have had two servings. He does love apples.
Gofres at the school Mother-Son Glow Bowl fundraiser this Friday. He deemed it boring. He accepted my offer to tuck him early, so we left an hour into a three-hour event. He slept for 12 hours that night.
What Cups would rather be doing rather than Kumon homework on a Saturday: making spiders out of pipe cleaners. I don't know whether to be frustrated to her lack of response to my nagging or be proud of her for having creative ideas and executing them. The two spiders hang on our walls now. I suggested that she wear these as earrings with her spider hair on Halloween.
Gofres has been advancing that much more with each class. He blew bubbles. Then he blew bubbles with his face in the water. Yesterday he floated on his back for nine seconds without being held. Okay, the teacher propped him back up a couple times when his butt began to sink. Confidence booster?! Cups passed her class after a three-year break; she had been in the same class for an entire year then. Just as I was ready to put her in private lessons, she asked for no more swimming lessons. In the meantime she had discovered swimming techniques from playing in the water with friends in the summers.
