It’s almost June and we are just about done with our Kindergarten curriculum for reading and writing. We’ve developed a huge interest in all things Star Wars (see previous post) and also in ancient history. Mom told us a bit about Sparta and Riley kept asking, “Can you please tell me more about those good guys who fought thousand and thousand and thousand bad guys and won?” He’s interested in military history, geography, and general social history. (“But if they are only fighting because they both want it, then who are the good guys?”).
We’ve moved from ancient Greek history to ancient Roman history and also to Viking history. (Riley said, “The Vikings are really good at taking other people’s things.”) We read about Pompeii too. All of us are psyched to go to Europe to see all of these places. Dad is going to do a volcano experiment with us this weekend so that we can see how the forces of the Earth work to make lava explode from the top of a mountain. So far, so good in the school department.
Asher is turning out to be a really funny guy. He loves to make people laugh. But he plays really well on his own too. He’s got great creativity, which he displays when he pretends his graham crackers are people galloping all over his food tray. He loves yoga, especially one-legged dog and all inversions. He says Thank You, Please, and Hello. Just not super often. He can feed himself, which is helpful for Mom, but he can’t clean himself up, which is less helpful for everyone. He sings, often on-key and well enough to identify the tune. He’s wonderful. We all love him and we like him. A lot.
Tessa has lost all ability to focus in the past two weeks. Here’s a sample exchange:
“Tessa, please do your lesson.”
“Mom! Did you know that the word Sat rhymes with That and Cat and Flat and Whap? I just made that last one up. I made up that word Whap. Did you know that? Do you like that word? It’s kind of like Whop, which is like Wallop, which I think is a kind of candy. Mom? What does Wallop mean?”
“Tessa, what are you supposed to be doing?”
“When?”
“On the computer for your lesson.”
“Oh. I don’t remember. Let me check. Wait. Hey Mom, did you know that Check is like Chuck and that Chuck can be a name or it can mean throwing something? Did you know that Mom?”
Suffice it to say, lessons take a bit longer when Tessa acts like she’s snorted an entire bag of Pixie Sticks. Maybe this is why she took scissors to her long hair and chopped a good portion of it off. If you notice a shorter ‘do in her pics, its because we had to get it all cut off to match what she started. She wasn’t happy with it at first. But she’s come around…
Emmett loves his Luke Skywalker costume and regularly pretends that the sandbox is Tattooine. He enlists the help of Princess Leia and Darth Vader (Riley doesn’t mind being the bad guy because he has a red light saber and he turns back to the good side at the end) to help save the Rebels from the Empire. Cool trees at the park have now become the Death Star and the car (and his bike) is his Speeder. He’s fully enmeshed in the Star Wars world. Also, he lost another tooth! He’s getting so big!
Stay tuned to see what the summer brings. Our nanny is getting married so this is her last week with us. We are still thinking that the Army will move us to the East Coast any day now. And we’ve officially outgrown our yard (if that wasn’t apparent when we first moved here).
Talk soon,
The Pigs
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