Year of Spelling Tests

Sometimes good, sometimes not so good. This week Ada practiced and seemed to have it right, but then didn’t do so well at school. When we did it together again, she did just fine.

Liam Reading

Liam has to read 20 minutes a night for homework. His reading has to be logged. Last night he skipped out on reading, so tonight he had to do double.

I told him that he had to read a book tonight (“non fiction is fine”) but not his NFL statistics book that he’s been reading over and over.

When I was cleaning up the kitchen, I asked Liam, who was in the living room, if he had fallen asleep yet. He said, “Nope”.

A few minutes later I took a photo of him on the couch – sleeping. The flash woke him up, though.

Baking Cookies

Ada made peanut butter cookies (with some help at the end from Helena). The best part was that she was afraid to turn on the mixer. When she got it to go, it scared her half to death.

Christmas Tree

We’ve always put the Christmas, but this year Thanksgiving was as early as it gets, so I suggested waiting a few days, but the kids would have none of it.

But they did help me put the entire tree up this year for the first time, so it didn’t take nearly as long.

As far as the ornaments, they were really excited to see their toys again (they wanted me to take pictures of them with some of their favorites), but they were pooped with the tree half done. But then Ada took over and did almost all the rest on her own, even bringing the piano stool over to stand on.