Saturday, October 15, 2011

How Can I Name This?

We told her to put a cork in it.
There are too many things to talk about so I couldn't name this post!
Turism: she is doing great in 6th grade.  She finds herself with a lot more work and a lot less play time.  She claims she hates getting older.  Every night she comes home with homework, which can sometimes keep her busy until bedtime.  She does love school, though.  There are 3 other kids in her class: a fourth grade boy, a fifth grade boy and a seventh grade girl.  The girl and her are quickly becoming good friends.  She took some recent field trips to a professional baseball game, an airplane crash site on our nearby mountain and a lab, where she got to look through a $20,000 microscope.
Bitsuanit: she is doing SO well at school.  She is homeschooled and pretty much runs the show. 
 She is taught by a teacher on a DVD and she does all her work on her own. I just check it.  Recently, we had a talk about how she felt about being at home and if she would like to try going back to school.  She said no.  She likes setting her own pace and having no distractions.  This week she really focused, did her work well and fast, had extra time to do all her chores and was ready to play by Friday mid-morning!  So, I took her on our girls camping night last night, which I'll tell you more about later on.  She LOVES camping.
Tihitina: also doing well in school.  She loves going and seems to be holding her own with the third graders.  She is ahead for her age but her work doesn't seem to reflect that.  She enjoys all the kids and all the fun things they get to do like: the lab where they went and looked through the microscope, a museum trip and a trip to the fire station.
Carmen: So far, we haven't seen much of the terrible twos, although I am very afraid of it :).  "No" was his favorite word for awhile but we really tried to work on that.  He loves playing outside and I recently spent an hour with him at the playground.  He could've been there all day!  He continues to be gentle and sensitive, good with Zoya, loves playing with his sisters and turning very independent, with wanting to do everything himself.  Getting him dressed takes A LOT longer now.
Zoya: She turned 10 months recently.  We can't believe her birthday is right around the corner.  It's crazy.  She is crawling, cruising and pulling herself up and standing on her own.  She continues to be super-extroverted, mellow, relaxed and just plain fun.  She loves following Carmen around and trying to do everything he does.  She does great with going up stairs and not so great coming down them.
Ministry: the girls have been SO much fun.  We have had girls invite others so the group now has 12 girls in it.  Some of the older girls are meeting with some of the younger/newer ones and that mentorship relationship is such a joy to watch.  I just love watching people get connected with each other and forming real relationships.  Our recent trips have been a girls climbing trip and a girls camping trip.  Bitsuanit got to come on the camping one.  It was such a FUN time!!  And Bitsuanit got to learn how to play "never have I ever".  Phew.  One less thing to teach in school....

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