What a laid back, bask in the sun, no where to be sort of week we have had.
We were able to get passes this summer for our local wave pool.† This is something we haven’t been able to do the last few years. Kei loves swimming, she is like a fish in water. It renews her, delights her, makes her dance with glee.† I am so glad to be able to just run to the pool for a couple of hours and not worry about staying all day.† Since it is $18 each to get in!! It is a wave pool, Olympic pool, kiddie play area, beach and deck and water slides but still! That is so expensive for us.† They run a special for ONE day in March where the passes are $50 each.† Yay us!
I love this picture of Kei and Nomad.† He is much improved from the “I am so crazy I think something is wrong with me” self that he was a few months ago.† Still kinda wild, but better.
Kei has been building Fairy Houses since she was old enough to walk. She LOVES this.† She can spend hours working on her houses.† She has been busy this week on her newest Fairy Mansion.
There was also a lot of playing outside, riding on the huge spool I snagged at Home Depot, jumping and more.
One of our favorite things we did was the Greek/Latin cards we have.† We sat outside while Kei worked on her Fairy Houses and I would hold up each card and have her guess the origin and the meaning.† After she had gotten about 12 right it finally dawned on me that the Greek cards were GREEN and the Latin were RED.† She was just laughing her head off and so was I.† I really thought she was just that good at guessing!† To me this is homeschooling at its best….a girl playing in mud while learning about word origins, and laughing…always laughing.
Today she joined a Webkinz chat on Facebook.† She was so excited because she asked a question and they answered it and typed her name.† 🙂
She also made a really yummy snack.† It was very quick and easy.† The recipe is here.
We are reading a lot together.† Fabre and Turtle in Paradise and Kei is still reading her book and I am reading Guerrilla Learning [which is one of my favorite HSing books].† We have 2 more chapters in SOTW and a couple more in Zoology 3 and then I am ready to start back! 6th GRADE.† How is that possible?
Kei also made a mailbox which we hung on the wall.† You never know what is going to show up in there!
Lovely giggly days….Is there anything better?
Happy weekend!
Karen
[E]very time a child says, “I don’t believe in fairies,” there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.† ~James Matthew Barrie, Peter Pan
Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom.† It is as true as sunbeams.† ~Douglas Jerrold
The lazy days of summer. Time for swimming, playing, walking dogs, building fairy houses…life is good!
Beautiful days with a beautiful young lady. How lovely of you to share them with us.
Wow! I love that wave pool! How awesome is that! We have an Olympic size swimming pool and water slide and kiddie pool, but nothing like that!! That is awesome!! Great that you snagged that deal for the year!
I love the idea of fairy houses. I have to tell Allie and Piper about that idea!
Ha! I laughed out loud about the Latin and Greek cards.
Sometimes I so envy that it is just the two of you, making your own schedule, doing your own thing with no one else around! Love it!
And it was sooooooooooooo great to talk to you this week!!!!!!!! I will call you soon!! or feel free to call me!!!!!
I love this, Karen. Fairy houses and laughter and greek and latin and more laughter and being true to yourselves and so much creativity and more and more and more laughter. Ahhh. Beautiful.
How great that you got passes to that wave pool! I wish we could come over today and play 🙂
Thank you for your words, Karen. Not just the ones here, but the ones you send your friends, personally, always caring, always present. You are a beautiful friend. I am glad and blessed to have you and Kei in our lives.