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Brent gets a little frustrated with Callie's reading problem. The problem, she always wants to read. Brent wants a partner to play with. He practiced his bunker shot this morning, his first couple attempts covered Callie and I with sand and we asked him to aim in a different direction. Eventually, Callie couldn't take it anymore and got up to "coach" him.
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This morning we found ourselves once again at one of our favorite local parks. There were an assortment of games played, badminton first. Both Callie and Brent are really new at this, so it is quite entertaining to watch.
The kids don't usually play on the equipment, but today was an exception. I found them using their imagination, they were sailing a ship, and arguing about which end of the ship the wheel would be at. I laughed and teased them, and they quickly came to a compromise. Callie informed me they weren't arguing, they were reasoning. Nice.
Then, of course, there was wrestling. Brent is getting smart and going after her knees, but Callie still has the upper hand.
Callie and Brent were both able to catch a grasshopper this morning. They were very excited. I actually don't know if these are grasshoppers or crickets. Either way, we let them go after they were photographed. We will be adding them to our Nature Journals.
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The little Nuggets love being held and are growing so fast. They are all starting to get their wing feathers and when they are not hanging out on one of the kids, they like to run around and flap their wings. So cute!
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Time for the first cage cleaning and the little Nuggets are enjoying a little freedom. The kids usually take out 4 at a time and play and cuddle, but this if the first time the herd was free.
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Here are all 10 nuggets with their current names. Since we still don't know which is the rooster and what they will eventually look like, we feel free to change their names at anytime.
Athena
Artemis
Venus
Dark Meat
Cleopatra
Spearmint - a toothpaste twin
Wintergreen - a toothpaste twin
Aphrodite
White Meat
Goldie
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We try most mornings to head to one of the local parks. We like to go early, before the heat of the day hits. The kids bring a bag full of sports stuff, blankets and books. We usually stay for about 1 1/2 hours.
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(fresh out of the box and huddling by the heat lamp)
Early Wednesday morning the sounds of ESPN were broken with a phone call, it was the post office alerting us to the arrival of the Nuggets. Our Nuggets were safe in their new home by 7:30am.
(warmed up and exploring their new home)
(Delilah is very curious why we would bring birds into the house)
(JB was acting pretty disinterested, but he wasn't)
(Callie is showing a chick to Erica)
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We often see this cat on our way to the park. We decided to snap a picture and add her to our nature journal. Brent has not made his cat page, he jabbed a sharp pencil tip into the palm of his right hand and couldn't write or draw.
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Callie is working on drawing Tohru Honda, one of her favorite characters from Fruits Basket. Here is her work so far. This is after 15 min.
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Today, we had lunch at a relatively new BBQ place out by the gap. JT and I have tried it already, but this time we took the kids. The atmosphere is cute, but we were all disappointed. First, they were out of ribs, which I am pretty sure is some kind of BBQ crime. Plus, they had already raised their prices from the last time we were there, two weeks ago. That usually is the kiss of death. Charge what you need, or say it is introductory pricing. I was annoyed that lunch cost double and choices were so limited. What they did have wasn't true BBQ, but cooked in the dozen or so crock pots they had around the open kitchen. The kids did enjoy playing checkers at one of the game tables after eating.
After lunch we caught a matinee showing of the new Harry Potter movie. We thought it was pretty good. Poor JT was a little lost, unlike the rest of us, he hasn't read any of the books and he missed the last movie, so he had a little trouble keeping up. Callie was a little disappointed, not in the movie, but in the fact that we didn't see it the night it came out at midnight. She got over it though when she saw the amazing seats we got in the theater.
This was our first outing to the Deming theater. It was nice, small but comfortable.
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We have been keeping a nature journal of the things we see in person. Here are our pages on the Whip Scorpion we saw in the back yard. These are a work in progress and the kids keep adding to the pages. If we see another, we'll add that too. They convinced me to keep a journal too, so this is something we do together.
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Keeping track of homeschool is a burden. At least it is for me, I have tried many ways, but haven't yet found the one that works. I've just started using the organizer at
Simply Charlotte Mason. It has a free trial and so far is incredibly flexible, which is what I need since I like a lot of flexibility in our schedule. What I like most, you can schedule anything and if you don't finish everything in a day, it automatically moves it to the next day. I am frequently frustrated in planning because days rarely go as planned, then you have to adjust, with this I don't. I don't even need a start date for the next thing we want to do, I can schedule it "after" whatever we are doing is finished. Nice.
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Bitty is not known as a lap cat, in fact Brent is usually the only one she will tolerate touching her. When we first rescued her she was constantly lounging on laps, but it seemed as soon has she felt secure in her home, she decided that she no longer needed to woo us. Since then she is elusive, except today.
