Jaela's New Accessory

We picked up Jaela's new glasses yesterday!

School x 2 = Fun?!?

It's already the second day of school for the kids in our house, but today was the first day of school for some of the tiniest members of our household...the girls' miniature stuffed animals! Yesterday I refused the little guys admittance to our schoolroom while school was in session, but their little mommies made up for it today by creating little schoolrooms just for them. They had to wait a few hours, but as soon as 1st and 2nd grades were officially over for the day, the tiny creatures started school.

When I came in to the schoolhouse, Anya's creatures were engrossed in their Literature selection,

Macey's were working on Bible and having a snack (with a special guest lecturer for Science),

and Jaela's were paying close attention to their Science lesson. (Please note the neatly organized school books standing on the teacher's "desk" -- I don't know where she gets these ideas; I don't know anyone who would do something like that...)

What I want to know is, where did they get the idea that it's so much fun to be the teacher? (Wait, don't answer that...)

First Day of School

At breakfast this morning, much of the conversation centered around the excitement of starting the first day of school. After the girls had all had their say about what they were looking forward to most, and all of the obvious questions had been asked and answered, there was a moment of quiet contemplation.

And then Jaela asked, "How long ago did people discover school?"

Umm....

Lunchtime Activities

A few days ago, at lunchtime, I left the kids alone at the table to finish eating, and when I came back, I found Anya reading the ingredients label on the bag of pita chips!

(Mommy, what's enrich-ed flooooer?)

(What have I done?!?)

Spicy Juice!

I haven't written much on this blog about our adventures in working around Isaak's wheat allergy. (Mainly because I realize that it may not be as fascinating to you as it is to me!) The short version is that if he eats whole wheat, barley, or rye that has not been soaked, he needs to eat pickles too to help offset the allergic reaction. (You can read the long version here.)

The other day at my friend's house, we had whole wheat pita bread, and she didn't have any pickles. (I know, horrifying, isn't it?!?) She did have apple cider vinegar, though, so I mixed up a concoction for Isaak to drink; about a half a cup's worth of half vinegar, half water. If he would drink enough of it that I could be confident that it would offset the wheat, he could have the pita bread with the rest of us.

He took a small sip and instantly lowered the glass, blinking. "Spicy juice!", he announced. I agreed and told him that if he would drink just a little bit more he could have some bread. He took a few more swallows, then set it down and accepted his bread.

And then he drank more! He kept sipping from his glass throughout the meal, and when it was halfway gone, I switched out his glass with a glass of water, thinking that he had probably had more than enough vinegar water.

He was having none of that! "No!", he exclaimed, "No wan water! Wan my 'picy juice!"

Yep...he's related to my side of the family, all right! :)

Macey's New Accessory

The verdict has been in for a while...Macey needs glasses!

We finally picked them up today, and oh, the things she can see!

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

I woke up this morning to the sound of the girls singing at the top of their lungs:

(Macey's version):

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, even though the sound of it is really quite atrocious, if you say it loud enough you'll always sound atrocious...

(If you're a little rusty on your Mary Poppins song lyrics, I'll remind you that it's supposed to be "you'll always sound precocious...")