February 22, 2010

• Two months!

  New Year's resolutions work about as well as ever, as you can see. I do have chickens, though!

  

  Gabe and Christine came to visit with their kids last week, and since Gabe has more energy than chance or I put together in a month, he went ahead and got the bulk of coop building done for me. Once he'd done all that work it was only fair that he get to see the chicks, so we headed to the feed store with Seph and Farrah and picked these out. Seph named them Kiki, Gigi and Puff. Right now they're living in the kitchen, and the kids adore them. While they were here we also visited McKinney Falls, went to Doc's (playground for kids+beer for grownups=yay!), and visited the Science Center.

  It's been a busy new year so far. Seph is taking a claymation class at the public access studio that she loves, and continuing with Scottish Country dance. Rone is signed up for both soccer and gymnastics at the Y, while Cotton tries to adjust to being left in the nursery to play. Recently we've been to see a Chinese New Year celebration (dragon dancers!), to the big Austin Area Homeschoolers Valentine's Day party, and out to Dripping Springs to spend the day sitting around a campfire. We're all still part of Campfire USA, with both kids earning emblems and working on those projects.

  Rone went to a baseball game with Chance yesterday, and came home with a fly ball. It was his first game, and they both seemed to have a good time. Schoolwork-wise, he's working on math and spelling. His reading is improving all the time, but his favorite book is still a Calvin and Hobbes Treasury that he loves to read over and over.

  Seph had a sleepover this weekend, and went to see the Percy Jackson movie (again!). She went on opening day with a friend, in Camp Half-Blood t-shirts that we made for them to wear. I thought this would be supremely dorky, but it turned out they weren't the only ones--there were lots of folks with them on! She's still working on being as goth as an 8yo can be, and trying to sneak a face full of make up past me when we're heading out the door. She's also working on math and spelling, and is a big reader.

  We've reached the point where I'm wondering if I need to steer her away from some things as too adult for her. And then I remember I read Stephen King at 7 years old,without any real lasting effects, other than being unable to sleep in a room with an open closet door. Or permit my kids to. And I may have been known to close closet doors in rooms other people are sleeping in just in case. But it's for their own protection!
  

  Cotton, after a fairly good spell of several weeks, has moved back to a banshee phase. Everything is met with a scream of indignation. She's giving up her afternoon nap, which the entire family feels is a bad plan. She likes to swing, to laugh at her own jokes, and eating cookies. She also really likes to watch the Lawrence Welk show, and will holler mightily if you change the channel.
  
  

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