M and B are a little stuffy, but acting like they can carry on. K is absolutely miserable, clingy, and stuffy.
I want to organize a music lesson for M, because nothing calms K down like dancing to music, but since I’m not sure I know all the new songs and don’t want to spend the morning learning music myself, perhaps I’d better just put music on for K and dance with her later.
The art went very smoothly yesterday, B did record the directions on his MP3 player, then listen to them back. Playing backgroung music didn’t work out so well, you can only hear the computer speakers in the workshop, the cd player’s power button blinks whenever the cd option is chosen, DH thinks it has a bad connector in it’s power supply, or insufficient capacitance.
K is wailing in her crib right now, she is so tired, I’m trying for a morning nap – so far it’s really loud around here. We are out of laundry quarters, we have overdue library books, the library opens at 11:30 on Thursdays. B has to get to the middle school early for his lesson today (but he can walk there himself). I want to do some kitchen table school with both of them. I asked B to set M up with some math pages, so far they are asking me so many questions that is of limited efficiency. I hear Frosty the Snowman, K must have reached down her stuffed animal and activated the play button (She’s gotten taller if she can reach that down!) Decision: we’ll walk downtown at 11 for our exercise, hopefully K will have slept.
Yesterday B did measure the space for his planned model of Pikachu in Lego bricks, but we didn’t go over how to use ratios to scale everything. He says he can do it on his own, I’m not sure if I should quiz him on it, let him do it alone so I don’t discourage him, or ask him to show me his thinking and keep my comments to myself – can I do that on this little sleep? Do I dare attempt spelling lessons today? They loose skill with this without re-enforcement, but I discourage them when I work with them in a tizzy.
OK, M is asking B about addition, K is protesting less vigorously, I’m going to try to organize the music this afternoon and do it tomorrow. Once M finishes his page, I’ll do dictation with him and B. We’ll all be fresher if we do it first. OK, I have a plan.