A few highlights in pictures:
SNOW DAY! Sometimes you just need a day off of school, even though technically you don't have to drive through the snow to get to your school. So then your mom lets you go out and play in the snow first thing in the morning (and probably still makes you do some work when you come back inside later).
Lydia has started taking horseback riding lessons this month, and it's been SO fun. Her favorite horse is named Sly. She is learning how to do all of the care for the horse, then learning how to ride. I've wanted to do this basically since we started homeschooling and I'm so glad that it has worked out to do it now. I love riding horses and grew up familiar enough with the horses on my Grandpa's ranch that I could get in a saddle and be confident enough even still today. It makes me happy to see Lydia share that.
Reading books with dad.
Life Skills: Austin has been helping me order yogurt on our grocery order each month. (My kids love yogurt, so I buy a TON at the beginning of the month and then when it's gone, it's gone until the next month.) Austin has been great at picking out flavors and gets excited to help. This month he added over $67 worth of yogurt to the cart. Ha. Before checking out, I pared down quite a bit but left a few fun yogurts like M&M crunch and a box of Gogurts. The next step is to teach about price-points and such, but for now, I'm happy for his help.
Gymnastics: In February I put Lydia and Austin in a gymnastics class at the AF Rec Center. It was Austin's first class of any kind and he was really excited about it. I didn't like the boy teacher and neither did Austin. But we finished out the month and it was fine.
Lydia and I went to the Clark Planetarium at the beginning of January and Lydia saw these mood rings there. She decided that she REALLY wanted to buy one. I told her that if she earned the money, we could go back and we could each buy one. She worked hard and I drove her back on a little Lydia date to buy the rings and be together. It was sweet.
Lydia did her mid-year Dibles test and it was awesome. She loves her Dibles tester and I love that I can keep Lydia at teach her at home, while still having the knowledge of where she lands on the State Test.
Our neighbors have two dogs. Lydia LOVES dogs. Sometimes when they go out of town they ask if Lydia will take care of their dogs and on those times Lydia thinks it's the best thing ever. I am hopeful that someday she will start a dog-walking business for an entrepreneurial class and then she will get all the best parts of dogs with none of the work for me. She got paid enough to help buy a kids kindle reader, which she is thrilled about.
We had a game night to celebrate her finishing Part 1 of her math book, and it was a really fun night.
Yay homeschool.
