I love getting to spend my day's with my son! I am so blessed to get this time this year. When the girls first started school I felt Caden and I would be board without the girls and home schooling to do. So at first I busied myself volenteering at the school and church as much as possible. I was then wearing myself out. Being outside of the house all/most of the day, coming home and not having time to take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, then having to make dinner and do homework with the girls (and Caylea had several hours of homework to begin with ~ I think this was an adjustment issue and she has figured out how to use her time more wisely because thankfully her homework is much much less now). Then cleaning, making sure uniforms were ready and packing lunches. It was all just too much! I took a step back and decided to reevaluate what was going on. I now volenteer at the school on Friday's. Stapeling and colating, everyother friday is snack day and twice a month they have stallion store (they break up the grades). I help every snack day and only some Stallion Store days. I also decided to have lunch with the girls still but alternate weeks instead of having lunch with both of them on the sameday. There will be days and weeks I spend more time helping out at the school (and church) but it's not every week.
It has been so great for Caden and I. I can get the house cleaned really well each week. Caden and I have time to play trains, play doh, games, color, go on walks/bike rides and many other things. He is so happy to get all of this attention. He gets super excited when Daddy is at home working also. I don't think he could feel much luckier.
Here is Caylea working on some of her homework yesterday. She has really turned a corner! Grades were so great last week all A's and B's YAY! The grading scale here is much different than what I am use to. If Caylea makes between a 93-100 that is an A, 85-92 is a B, 74-84 is a C, 67-73 a D and of course anything lower than a 66 is a F. I am really happy with how things are turning out. It took her several weeks to catch on, use her time wisely, learn to concentrate at the school oh and I think the hardest part for her is that she had to learn to use her brain. With Abeka all the worksheets were just so easy. It never really required her to really think and be creative. I think the 3rd grade year would of changed that but not the 2nd grade. She had to build up some confidence on the AR testing. She takes a test after every book she reads and well my daughter loves to read. I easily get 4 or more e-mails a day with her AR score on them (I did sign up for this). I am not sure if she was not comprending it at first or if the tests themselves she just didn't care to think about. Whatever the reason that has changed thankfully :)
My precious Carolina. She is doing great at school. She easily knows 15-20 sight words now. She can sound out smaller 3 and 4 letter simple words also. It is so much fun to watch her. I wanted to be the one to teach my children to read (and I could have). However I am fine with this also. We work on her "homework" a few nights a week. Really at our choosing her teacher just sends home a packet and we choose the nights. Carolina loves it! I take her completed work out of her binder each and night and look at it with her and tell her how proud I am of her and how great she is doing. She is so happy to show me all that she does at school. It is really the cutest thing!
Here is Caden doing a preschool workbook while Caylea is doing her homework. He is pretty big stuff you know! Oh I have to share this. We had our window's open several days this last week. On Saturday Anthony left the back door open while he was grilling. Bad idea lots of flies decided to join us for dinner! I HATE fly swatters because they are gross and squish bugs onto my house! NASTY! So I bought some fly paper and if a fly comes into my house I hang it and soon he will be on there. Well Caden saw a few of them on there the other day so he took a chair over to where it was hanging and said to the "dead" flies. "You better tell your friends to stay out of our house" So funny I just had to laugh at him. Then today there was another fly in our house. Caden went over there and said "I told you to tell your friends to stay out now he is going to get stuck too". HA HA! Very true son!
Another cute story while I am on a role. There is a little boy in Caylea's class that from what Caylea says does not like any of the girls. You know a tipical 8 year old boy. Well Caylea says he says mean stuff to all of the girls. Nothing horriable just being bratty. Well today Caylea told me on the way to critter co. "Jake did not say one mean thing today to anyone Mom" I said really that is great! Caylea then said "It's because I prayed he would turn into a nice boy" I got such a good feeling about that in my heart. I hope and pray he continues to be a "nice boy".
Unedited pictures again. . .maybe one day I will replace them but probably not.
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