School Update

My kiddos are little, so our learning is done very gently. To help pass the time when we are going to the many therapy and doctor appointments we have each week we sometimes view DVDs while driving. Recently we started using http://www.littlepim.com/ so drive time is now learning time! My kidlets are learning Spanish and I am refreshing mine, which had pretty much rusted out. This morning Lil Dumpling counted to 10 in Spanish! Not bad for a speech delayed 3yo who only gets to 5 in English. ;-) Lil Princess made it to 20.

My main focus has been on getting outdoors more. It hasn't been easy since it has been so hot, but we had a lovely picnic in the park last week. To try to help them start observing more I asked them to find a bug and was disappointed when neither was able to find one. I think next park trip I will be more prepared to help them find one and see what we can see.

Last night we went down to the harbor and the kidlets rode their trikes all over the place. Surprisingly there was minimal danger to other pedestrians and Lil Princess only crashed her trike once when she was looking at a dog and a railing jumped out at her. Lil Dumpling did amazingly well considering he wasn't able to pedal last week and this week I was having to chase to keep up with him.

We also went to the beach recently- everyone had a wonderful time and I hope to go back this week. I managed to get everyone sunscreened except myself, but the peeling is almost gone now so I am ready for the next try.









 For *my* educational work, I continued working on my Education Planner notebook, and researching our options for this year. I ordered the Handwriting Without Tears PreK program, joined a local home ed group, and wrote out a schedule to try to keep myself on track when we officially "start" school in September. Still working on the schedule as I was hoping to get a ladies Bible study in there one day, and a few other things. Not sure how to fit it yet, but will get there soon.