Weekly Report: Week Twenty-Nine (days 141-145)

Every February, I have witnessed a brain-growth spurt in EG. Then I spend March and April scrambling to challenge EG rather than present her with busywork. This year is no exception. Yes, I know, I should plan ahead, but I never know exactly how she'll spurt. Sometimes it's more in one area than another.

The big news this week is that EG finished all of her art appreciation assignments for this school year! Otherwise known as "the end of the year is approaching," I tend to think of it as beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The algebra book from Art of Problem Solving arrived and I have to say that I somewhat wish we'd used it from the beginning. Live and learn, I suppose; I had good reasons for choosing Life of Fred at the time, but wow, does it feel like a waste of time now.

FB has been voraciously consuming the SOTW audiobook. I had managed to keep him just reviewing what we'd already covered, but I think he's sprinted ahead of us now. We're officially learning about Julius Caesar this week. In one of the books we're reading about Caesar, the beginning of the paragraph has a little sentence where his mother is calling him inside, using his first name, Gaius. The next sentence refers to him as Caesar. Unfortunately, I found myself reading "Baltar." Oops. Yesterday, FB grabbed the Miquon book and did six or seven pages instead of the scheduled one. Hopefully my Rainbow Resource order will arrive before he commandeers the Miquon book another time and finishes it on me--the next Miquon is supposed to be on its way.

PC has finally stopped referring to going to the bathroom as "ouch." This sounds like a good thing, and I suppose it is, except she went straight to the stage of thinking it's amusing to insert "poo-poo" into almost any conversation. She also managed to attempt to break the drawer on the crib. Not that she sleeps in the crib, but it makes an adequate toy box, given our total lack of space for anything that PC owns. (Some of her toys are in the crib, some are upstairs in the playroom, some are in the living room. Some of her clothes are in the same room as the crib, some are in our bedroom. You get the idea.)

I'm hoping that we'll get something more accomplished around the house this weekend towards the goal of moving. We did get the piece of fencing that needed replacing finished this week. The dog is thrilled. Next up: drywall estimates, and landscaping. In keeping with my theme for the month, this is how I feel about the house: