February 14, 2011

Early today the 2 girls were outside getting their bikes ready for the week. We are supposed to have nice weather. They had built a little fort on the deck and Katie actually changed into shorts and a t-shirt! (it wasn't "that" warm) I tried to explain to them that we could still be getting snow, It is only February, but they didn't want to hear it. LOL!

Today we were watching "Jeff Corwins Experience: The Amazon: Aquatic Ecosystem. This by far is the best one yet. He actually was able to hold 2 sloths. The kids, and myself were amazed at how cute, small, and ssslllooowww.....they were. ~smile~ We laughed so hard when the one sloth came down from the tree, usually only about 1 time a week, and yes, went to the bathroom. It had a smile on its face! The kids were rolling on the floor.

It was good for us to see these animals because Katie has been doing some lapbook booklets about sloths. She was so excited to actually see one that was alive.

After this we put in 'Eyewitness: Rainforest Jungle'... As Ana was watching she told me that God created the animals and us. It talked to much about evolution, the kids turned it off.

Someone on WTM mentioned that Scholastic was having their $1.00 deals this week. I ended up getting 13 downloadable books! I already printed a few things. The one thing I'm excited about is that I got a few of the read-aloud play books. Tom needs to do speech and I'm going to have the family do this together. Ed's going to be soooo thrilled. ~smiled~ I think it's going to be quite interesting.

Now the kids are watching 'Bach's Fight for Freedom video. Last week they watched and enjoyed 'Strauss: The King of Three Quarter Time.

Now, I'm off to the kitchen to make some gluten free/casein free cornbread, which by the way is delicious.

~Margarete~