Friday, February 25, 2011

Carsten


Last Friday I got a call from Carsten's school.  He was sick, and I needed to pick him up right away.  I didn't know what to do with him, so I took him to statistics lab with me.  Special time.  He got to play computer games.  He came down with a stomach flu two hours later.  Poor child was quite ill.

One week later, almost to the hour,  this morning,  I got another call from Carsten's school.  Carsten was feeling ill, and I needed to pick him up.  Hmm.

I remembered a discussion Carsten and I had had during the week.  He had told me, "Mom, did you know that some kids say they're sick when they aren't, and then they stay home from school?" Apparently he had never previously thought or heard of this and some bad influence type child had just given him the tip.   Of course he assured me that he was not the kind of kid who would ever do that.

But as he hopped into the car this morning, I saw a little glimpse of a smile that made me wonder.  Actually it wasn't the smile.  It was the fact that he appeared to be trying not to smile.  I know my extremely honest and noble child would never, ever try to deceive me.   And he loves school.

This time we did an hour of spelling homework before stats lab.  During stats lab he did some reading.  And afterward he did two hours in a math workbook.

Just in case.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Fun in the Style of Monday Night

So lucky to find a left-handed friend to go to cake decorating class with.  You can sit by each other and not bump elbows.







Saturday, February 5, 2011

What do YOU do for fun on a Saturday night?

How exciting!
Martian stoplight. 

I think we saw a blue Martian out in the hydrastorm!




Friday, February 4, 2011

Lackadaisical iridescent leprechauns! These words are hard!


Athena is taking part in the Gilham spelling bee.


Luckily they didn't make her pronounce them.  She just had to spell them.

For the first five weeks the words were written.  Next week they switch to the oral spelling bee style.  They will be retested on the above words.

Hopefully they won't need to move onto the fifty tie breaker words.  They are scary-looking things such as:

unbeknownst
indigenous
harangue
dulcimer
juxtaposition
ochre
kinesthetic
bazaar (wouldn't be so bad except "bizarre" is also on the list!)
succinct

diagrammatical
fortuitous


Maybe dad can help her prepare for the tie breakers.  I am not sure how to pronounce some of them.  Even my spell check doesn't know some of them!


At least Athena and I both survived our tests this week.  Relaxing with ice cream tonight and this weekend back to studies!

Can you tell:  is this picture a mirror image?
Or is this one?