Reuben

Here's a little helping of Reuben.

Wooden train track in the living room.

Wearing holes in his pants.

Later I found him surrounded by Clifford.

I love hearing him sound out words.

These next two must have been taken while I was out.

I don't remember this event

and I don't know what he's doing.

But he's cute and creative.

And!

He has his first loose tooth.

Which he is THRILLED about

and I'm surprised about

because he's only five

and it seems early.

He and I have taken two-week break from schoolwork

due to my inability to be upright and

the greatness of swirling in my head.

But thanks to the mega doses of iron,

we are back today.
We met the letter Y and added seven new words

to our word caterpillar today.

Then throughout the day he pointed out

various Ys that he saw- 

like the crack in our neighbor's sidewalk

and the zipper and collar on my jacket.

Reuben is easy to teach.

I am trying to gear myself up to teach both

him and Peter next year,

and keep Charlie from yanking the dry erase markers out of our hands and writing on the couch.

I resubscribed to www.simplehomeschool.net

to get ideas and motivation.

I've dusted off The Well Trained Mind

and perused the site for the annual homeschool convention.

In response to my plea suggestion for Paul to help me

teach next year he said,

"Oh, let's just send them to school."

See how easy that is.

Just send them to school and let someone else do it.

Hmmm