Thursday was a mixed bag generally.....I woke up early with a migraine. I am limited to what meds I can take as I have very few left and can't get any more, so I tried to get through the day as best I could without them but in the end had to take something because I had a hair appointment tonight and had already cancelled last weeks because of a migraine. So I didn't want to miss tonights too. Amber is too good to lose as a stylist!!
Abigail spent almost all morning studying French again - she is obsessed with it :) she is learning as much as she possibly can so she can catch up with the other girls in the class I think - and I am so proud of her - she is picking it up so fast!! :)
As soon as I can afford it I think I will look in to getting Rosetta French.
Sam has been enjoying the magnets kit with iron filings and other fun things:
We played the new games we got at Education Station. I particularly like 'The Game of Chips' which is a math game. It's really simple and comes in a tiny bag so you can take it with you when you go out. It involves addition - mainly fast addition up to 11 but also addition up to 30 and Sam is REALLY good at it. I played a game against him this morning :)
We also played 'Spot It' which is a fun card game similar to 'Pictureka', but I think it's more fun - I get carried away because it's very 'on the edge of your seat' and we start yelling and shrieking trying to find our 'things' on the main card....its so funny :)
The third game was Pairs of pears or something...it's an alphabet game where the children had to spell out three letter words that connected at one point or something....in the end we gave up with the game and just used the tiles to make words and they were swapping letters with each other to make words, but it was really helping Sam with spelling and rhyming words and vowels etc etc...
This afternoon I wanted to relax and do some art, so I sat and watched a video from a class I'm taking - and Sam watched it with me. He then wanted to join in with the class with me and draw and paint one of the girls from the class just like I was. So we both started to draw a girl from the video. Here is Sam doing his:
Her name is 'Ellesse' and she is under a beautiful sunset :)
And here is mine....I've done quite a bit to her since, but she isn't finished....so I will blog the journal page when she is finished......
Abigail also added a French learning app to my iphone and worked on that. She also helped Sam start on his 'Our Community' workbook. Abigail did that book in Grade 2 although its a Gr 1 book - and she loved it - so she thought Sam might like to do it too.
He was excited to know there is a page or two about police officers in there - as that is what he is hoping to be one day!
Oh another thing I am soooo happy about is that today I got Sam a place in a homeschool field trip to Safety City :) He goes in two weeks time :) I am so pleased as it is somewhere all Kindergarten/ Grade 1 kids normally go and he won't miss out!! Laurence has always been sad that he missed out as he came here a year too late to go. He is going to LOVE it :) Abigail has quite a few classes coming up that Sam is too young for - but Abigail is actually too OLD for the safety City trip - so it will be nice for Sam to get to go on this one by himself :)
So that was our homeschool day today....it was a good day for Abigail again - I think she does better on slower days - and also on cooler days - although today was hot - we were inside in the air conditioned house, so she wasn't hot and overheated. She was calm, helpful and sweet - it was just like she was before the School holidays. I really do think she doesn't cope well with changes in her life/ routine. She doesn't cope well with heat and she doesn't cope well with a busy lifestyle.
Tomorrow is going to be hot again - as much as I would love to go out and enjoy the heat, I think I am going to find somewhere indoors to go and see if being cooler again helps Abigail.
Tonight I had my hair appt with my amazing Amber. Love her sooooooooo MUCH!!!! Tonights appointment was sooo much fun :) I always leave there feeling so much better - and Susannah is right - she does give the most amazing head massages!
My beautiful friend JoAnne showed up halfway through my appointment - luckily she also knows Amber :) We went out for coffee and dessert afterwards (thank you JoAnne xxx Love you x) and got caught up with each others news.
I got home tonight to find Abigail fast asleep, but Sam was still awake watching a movie on my bed! He had brought me a gift home from his Dads - a bone he had found by the river in Edmonton!! I kid you not!!! It STINKS!!!! lmao!!! Maybe he's going to work in the forensics department as a police officer lol. Laurence says he thought the bone was a moose or something (downtown??? lol) I said it's probably human lol and Sam said his dad told him it was probably the old Granny that died in the river last year. omg! I have a dead Granny's bone in a plastic bag in my mud room. Sam said he washed it at his dads but it didn't go very white! No it didn't - and it looks OLD!!!
I have the weirdest kid lol - love him so much but why does he have to have this thing about sticks and bones and stones???? Omg I remember when he kept the chicken bone from his dinner and ran upstairs and hid it in his bedside drawer hahahahaha!!!
And years ago when he found a bone up on the back field and brought it home, washed it and painted it!
He's going to be a Palaeontologist (sp??) or whatever they are called....
Tomorrow it's going outside - he can keep it but OUTSIDE!!!!! lol!!
Thats all folks
xxx
