Some Kind of Normal

Feeling under the weather this week has not put too much of a damper on things around here. We're all coughing, but have enough energy mid-day to do...

We played around with an activity from a book I picked up at a library sale, called Math and Literature by Stephanie Sheffield.  After reading a picture book called The Bedspread by Sylvia Fair, we talked about symmetry, and played around with venn diagrams.

The girls drew the front of our house, without looking at each others' drawings, but while talking to each other about what they were drawing.  "Let's start with the front door."  "Did you remember the chimney?"

Ani's front door

Eliza's front door

We compared their drawings and constructed a venn diagram of the similarities and differences between their houses.

Determined to have a picnic - but it's hunting week here in Ohio...
so, to the bike path.

Ani took this picture of me...I don't look too sick, do I?

Ani is talking to Dan, so far away...

I got out my carving tools this week, and Ani was intrigued, carving herself a heart.

Here is a detail from one of Eliza's drawings from this week - very hip arm warmers (and you can just barely see that this chica is sporting a nose ring...ya!!).

All this,  some cooking of corn bread, lots of tea, a trip to the library for International Kids Program (a journey to Iceland this week!), and a lot of listening to and reading of stories...some good, mostly quiet days for us.