~ Thursday, September 30, 2010 ~

Sam brought to my attention that we have sunflowers blooming! (What the boys didn't chop down with their swords or the what the dogs didn't ramble over and mow down playing hide n seek n pounce...)

It's Make Guacamole Day, because...my organic avocados are ripe. I make some some damn good guacamole if I do say so myself, it's more like Guacamole Salsa. Organic: avocados, red onion, garlic cloves, tomato, cilantro (my GOD I LOVE cilantro!), juice of lemon or lime, a little sea salt to taste. It's a salty, cilantro-y delish treat for Josiah and I, as no one else around here eats it. (Josiah is my rabbit. He eats so many carrots, his poop is carrot orange.) I love to make a dark green salad with cucumbers and sprouts and smother it in my Guacamole. I will be blowing people away with red onion/garlic breath for a few days now.



Sam & Josiah re-discovered the Just Dance Wii game. I MUST get a video of Sam doing I Like To Move It. Too cute!



Josiah is absolutely addicted to the "I Spy" type books now. After we did the Highlights one TWICE, I remembered that we own a couple of "I Spy" books. We have cuddled together 3 or 4 times today to do them. One is a classroom dinosaur exhibit, which included a clay/cardboard model, that he wants to do. I already have a volcano and a dam on the list of models to make. He is just like me. I LOVE miniature models of things. But it does stress me out when I think of diving into one. I remember a clay model I did when I was in school, I think of a ?Pueblo Indian village?, and I remember being totally overwhelmed by it. Why? Because I want everything to be perfect. It's obsessive-compulsive, so, many times instead of just taking chances and doing my best, I end up doing nothing at all.  


Since our reading the article about turtles in the Highlights magazine, Josiah's turtle passion has been rekindled. I am looking for a very nice, detailed play set of a variety of turtles, including hatchlings.


We read about Blackbeard today in our new pirate book, Lives of the Pirates: Swashbucklers, Scoundrels (Neighbors Beware!) . The Illustrations in this book are FANTASTIC!



The boys were having some passionate disagreements today, so I pulled out an oldie from the Cassidy Home Schooling Days, Don't Rant and Rave on Wednesdays!: The Children's Anger-Control Book . My witty boys were quick to point out that today is, in fact, Thursday, not Wednesday. After three pages, though, they were so amused by the book that they forgot why they wanted to kill each other ten minutes ago.





Mike and Sam went to soccer practice, Josiah and I went to the library. I got some more Sue Grafton books: A, B, and C. Josiah got Tsunami books and other natural disaster books. Shocker ;) I grabbed a Bunnicula book for Sam, one we haven't read yet. Sam LOVES Bunnicula.

 Josiah and I then went to Goodwill in search of a white, long-sleeve shirt for Sam. No such luck, but Josiah found a NICE set of dinosaurs, and an army tank. We were able to easily find the white shirt at Kohls. We made it to Earth Fare and got Sam a plum, ham, and some apple fritters to add to what we already had at home: a slice of raw milk cheese and apple....all for an appropriate 1840's school lunch. We picked up It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown DVD at Walmart, the store I hate with a burning passion.






Sam water-colored his copybook, watched pre-visit video, went over glossary/terms/classroom rules. He is really excited about writing with a quill pen and using the privy (out-house bathroom ;) He's such a good sport. How much you wanna bet he will be about the only boy tomorrow?




My husband made a very wonderful gesture today, of what I will not say, but he really scored high with it, and I love him more now than I ever imagined  I could. He is a real man, and some of the morons who have the opportunity to associate with him should take notes.