Charles has sucked me into the bottomless vortex that is televised coverage of the NBA draft. It's amazing to me that people watch this....and yet, here I am watching it. And not only watching the tv coverage but also surfing ESPN's online coverage. Ok...yeah...the spell was just broken. They asked Stephen A. Smith a question. He's so annoying. I'm going to bed.

The Solomons are here!!

Some of today's gems

Charles: These stupid chocolate chips keep clogging up my straw.

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Papa: Brian, I can tell you're smart. How'd you get to be so smart? Do you have brains?
Brian: Sure. (taps forhead) Right here.
Papa: (taps the top of his head) What about here?
Brian: (scoffs)Nooooo. That's your hair.
Papa: If I look in this ear, can I see all the way through out that ear?
Brian: (throws head back and laughs)
Papa: Is there something in there?
Brian: Yeeeeeees. Eardrums!

I like my new clubs!

A lot!

We went to the driving range last night for about an hour and I actually got the ball to go high and far on more than one occasion. It was great! For me anyway...

Scott was absolutely creaming them... they had various markers, but I don't know the distances they were marking...anyway, Scott was landing his about half-way between the 3rd and 4th markers every time.

I hit it past the first marker several times, so maybe they start at 100 yds and go up from there by 50s? Anyway...he was killing them.

So...that was fun! And the Solomon's are coming in tonight so that'll be more fun! And I'm taking off work Wednesday and Thursday and the office is closed on Friday and Monday...so I'm going to be having a fun overdose! Yea for fun!

William said...

We're doing a YES lesson and I'm introducing the new Bible memory to him, which is the last 1/3 of the books of the Old Testament.

Me: "You've already learned the first part--Genesis through II Chronicles, and the second part--Ezra through Daniel, so you just have to learn one more part and then you'll..."

William interrupts: "Be a grown up?"

Our trip to France

So night before last, William decided that, since we now have pretend passports, we should take an imaginary trip. He was careful to reassure Papa and Grammy that we wouldn't be gone long, it was just an imaginary trip. He decided that we should go to Paris, France to see the Eiffel Tower and we should ride the Concord to get there because it's the fastest passenger plane. So we got on my bed (the Concord), after presenting our pretend passports to invisible people and took our imaginary trip to France. It was great! I even got pictures! :)

btw....how many 5 yr olds know the following: 1) there's such a thing as an Eiffel Tower, 2) it's in Paris, 3) there's such a plane as a Concord, 4) it's the fastest passenger plane, 5) it flies to Paris. Ok, so they don't fly to Paris anymore, but he associates Concords with London and Paris b/c of the news coverage when they retired them...but that brings up another one--6)that there are cities called Paris and London and 7) that you need passports to get there.

So this is what I love about homeschool. Just by talking to my son and answering his questions with real answers, not baby answers, he knows lots of stuff! Real stuff! And he knows that there's a big world out there beyond his little house, and he thinks it would be cool to go see some of it. You don't have to use a curriculum to educate your kids. Just talk to them.

William and I made passports today.

We're not likely to get in trouble for that since they're not even remotely realistic in appearance. We're working our way through an art book--"Art & Activities Around the World" which is pretty much what the title would indicate. That's the first and only project we've done, but William and I are both excited about the book. Looks like fun. William was so excited about his passport that he slid it under the door of Mom and Pap's room so that Papa would find it when he got out of the shower. :)