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Homeschool PE: Rock Climbing

Big Helper

Oliver reading to his cousin Charley.

Clean Up

So I asked Kaleb to pick up his duplo blocks that were all over the livingroom floor, when I came back 10 minutes later, they were still not picked up. He spent 10 minutes doing this. hmmm...\



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It's A Homeschool Life #1



While driving home in the car-

Kaleb (age 6) : Mom.... Mom, Mom...MOM!
Ian (age 9): She can't hear you she is driving.
Kaleb: Why do we have thumbs?
Ian: She can't hear you!
Kaleb chants: Why do we have thumbs? Why do we have thumbs? What do we have thumbs for?
Me the Mom: Ignoring him and driving
Josef tired of the chanting (age 11): SO WE CAN GRAB THINGS!
Kaleb: Oh...
Kaleb: I could grab something without my thumbs.
Josef exasperated: No you couldn't.Thumbs are special. Humans are the only ones that have them. Animals don't have thumbs to grab things like cups. We need our thumbs to hold onto things and type and stuff. Otherwise...we'd be like animals. (He continues to rattle on for 2 minutes about how we are better than animals because we have thumbs.)
Kaleb: Gorillas have thumbs.
Josef: Whatever.

Infestation

So I've noticed we have some sort of pest living at our house, eating our food. It's been stealing grapes out of the fridge. There was a whole bag of red grapes in the fridge this morning and now they are almost gone.



I even got a look at the bug as it was breaking into the fridge.


The Last Days of Summer

School starts back for us officially on the 7th. So this is our last week of Summer. Here are the boys at the Back to School Picnic for IDEA and at the pool.