Gymnasts and windows don't mix

The Rainbow Loom is still going strong in our household.

 We love these First Discoveries books! Typos and all.

 Mirek and I do really weird stuff together. He likes to lick my face and so I lick him back. Don't judge me.

Naia is still not interested in anything "school" related. No reading. No math. Just art, dolls, pretend play. She is my little radical rebel unschooler and I love her for that.

 Taven, on the other hand, loves math workbooks (and is at the same level as Naia) and also loves his Rainbow Loom.

 Experimenting with various soaked and unsoaked beans in light and darkness.

 Circuits were a hit!

So far, having Lynni over to homeschool has been a success. She seems to like it besides the occasional headache from all of the noise. I am sure the constant screaming takes some getting used to.

Oh and yesterday Eaden and Lynni were doing gymnastics upstairs (I had already kicked them off of my bed for doing back handsprings). Well I heard a huge crash and then Eaden yelled "Lynni did it!!" Lynni started crying hysterically saying "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to" and I carried her downstairs to look at her foot. She had kicked up into a handstand off of the window and her foot went straight through the glass. She had a pretty deep cut but all is well and the window can be replaced.

Cuckoo Kids

The kids wanted to put on a play last night. The first half went well then Mirek knocked the camera out of my hands and cut the video short. Here is the second half of the play when things went awry.

And today spelling lessons were cut short to play in the rain!

Say NO to school!!!! Say YES to life!!!!

A Nature Walk, Tortillas, and Sewing

We only met three days this week. Mirek was not feeling well on Monday and Lynni went out of town on Friday. However, we managed to get plenty accomplished.

On Tuesday, we went to the arboretum. It was Lynni's first time to visit.

It was hot.

 There were tons of love bugs.

 Cooling off.

 Lunch at the park.

 On Wednesday Lynni's mom taught all of the kids how to make flour tortillas.

 I helped the girls sew a pillow.

I'm at home now on a Saturday night all alone! I had to mention that. It's so weird. My husband took the kids to a birthday party and I went to clean my sister's house. I am done and they are still partying into the night! I had to wake up at 4:00 AM this morning to get Eaden ready for her gymnastics meet in Galveston. It was at a convention center and we nearly froze to death. It was torture. She did not do well and told me it was because her muscles were frozen. I was a little surprised that she was not more upset with her performance. She did very well at her meet last week and her expectations were high. However, all she said was "mom, did I do bad on bars?" I told her it wasn't her best but that I'm sure she will do better next time. Then I told her she got an 8.8 on floor and she said "WHAT!!! But I did good!" She had previously not scored below a 9.3. I said "yeah well your muscles were frozen and thank goodness gymnastics is not very important in the grand scheme of life." This is so important to remember when all around us people take the sport so seriously.