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09/28/2005 Archived Entry: "what was I thinking?"

Today went much better. I wasn't exhausted, baby went down for a long nap and we took care of lessons. We've reached the end of our trial run of the spelling, so now it's just a matter of waiting for our program to arrive. It's a small company, so who knows how long it could take? I've decided I need to do a bit more preparation the night before in order to do our grammar lessons. They are something that I'm just going to have to make stuff up for using our Daily Grams book as my guide. Since we're done with cursive and taking a break from spelling, our lessons don't entail much right now. Math, logic, Solar System and writing which is Tabitha writing two or three sentences a day for an ongoing story that she's created. That's it for our formal time. Of course, the child is reading constantly, and not just fiction. Two of her favorite books are "Don't Know Much About the 50 States" and "Don't Know Much About the Presidents." She loves them and reads them over and over and gains so much knowledge from them. Someday she's going to give her dad a run for his money at Trivial Pursuit. She enjoys reading them so much, I'm going to order the Solar System one to supplement our work together. Right now we're reading about Mercury. Today she made her own crater pocked mud surface to replicate what the surface of Mercury is like. We're also going to read the Roman myth associated with Mercury and we're keeping a chart of how old she'd be and how much she'd weigh on each planet.

After lunch I got it in my head to walk to the mall. Big mistake. It was beyond hot, I was actually worried about the baby, I didn't have the good stroller, the route we took was ridiculous in that the sidewalk kept ending and we had to race across the [busy] street more than once and it was just a stupid, stupid idea. We never even made it to the mall. We camped out at Toys R Us for over an hour until Chris got to us. Actually, being in TRU was loads of fun, we took our time and really examined every single thing of interest. We weren't even done when Chris got there and it's not a big store.

Once home, we all just took turns entertaining the little miss and Tabitha also played computer games. After dinner, she and I ran to the grocery store which was a pleasant experience for the most part. Chris is reading "The Hobbit" to Tabs right now and then he and I will probably watch Desperate Housewives, although we have Martha from tonight as well so we'll see.