A Summer Day
Breakfast dishes, with two small helpers.
Putting away laundry, also with help. Halleluia!
Chicken care and feeding.
Kitchen science, on the cheap.
Safetytown USA, where we learned about fire safety, bike safety (“Wear your helmets, kids,” says Uncle Mario), and how to be safe near electrical wires and power stations, stray animals, strangers, and assorted other dangerous things. Safetytown is a mini town, with scaled-down buildings, working traffic lights, and a little pretend railroad crossing. We practiced crossing the street a lot.
Ours was a self-guided tour, which gave us some map-reading and reading practice. Lucas did a great job!
It also gave us lots of opportunities to sit and watch DVD presentations play. :-/ Still, the kids were mostly engaged.
We learned about not playing with matches or lighters, about “Don’t Hide! Get Outside!”, about crawling on the ground if there’s a fire, and having a family fire escape plan and meeting place. Although Lucas already knew a lot of this stuff, I think it was Asher’s first introduction to “Stop! Drop! Roll!”
There was a boring trip to the grocery store, made somewhat less boring by buying crummy Chinese potstickers, chow mein, and egg rolls for lunch.
We watered the garden where it was looking thirsty.
We watered the boys, who raced through the hose spray.
I fetched 17 glasses of ice water for thirsty humans. That water cooler idea is looking really good in the heat of summer.
We made mango, orange, yogurt pops.
The 4 p.m. tantrum came right on schedule.
Two storybooks.
Some math and language arts practice.
Piano practice.
Lucas tried on his new gi to show me. He looks so handsome and grown up.
Quite a day, no?
