Another Week in Review

Monday We went back to Ganyard Farms (pumpkin picking, cotton picking, etc.) with a group that I organized of Chapel Hill Homeschoolers, THEA folks, and Girl Scouts. The hay pile with the huge black plactic pipe slide and tunnel was very popular with a bunch of friends. The kids also go to feed the cows (AKA throwing bits of smashed pumpkin over the fence to, and sometimes hitting, the cows.) The cows seemed to like this activity very much, as did the children.



Tuesday Dallas decided to skip his weekly gymnastics class/play with Trevin and came with me and girls instead. First we dropped Emma at "Kathy's Art Class". The plan was then to hit either Southpoint Mall or Best Buy to look for a birthday present for Brian (who's birthday is tomorrow.) About half way to the mall Dallas asks if we can "look" in a Webkins store (you know, Webkins, those $15 stuffed animals produced by the Ganz company that come with an access code to play your virtual stuffed animal on-line at webkinzworld.com!) And Dallas, being 9 1/2, really means "look" when he says "look." Mia, however, at age 5 yrs. and 3 months starts crying (over, over, over), "I want a Webkin!!." Now, I will admit, that the vast majority of the time, Mia acts like a 5 year old. But, little did I know that today was "Reversion to 3 Year Old day" Day. So Mom, after saying "No." several different ways, turned around and drove away from the mall, swearing that she would never, ever, ever set foot in a Webkinz store again. We ended up parking for a while while Mia asked, "Why won't you buy me a Webkin?" And, "No! Really! Why won't you buy me a Webkin!" (apparently not liking the original, much repeated answer.) And eventually, "I promise not to cry. Can we go to the Webkinz store?" And then "Can't we go get Daddy a birthday present?" At that point Mom wasn't going into ANY store. Mia eventually calmed down and we stopped at our regular Tuesday afternoon during Art Class "coffee shop", where Dallas and Mia had hot chocolate.



We then dropped Mia at her art class, and picked up Emma and Amabel, and met Christine back at the coffee shop. Emma and Amabel had their weekly hot chocolate. And Emma did some Cube Friend math and Amabel attempted to write a paragraph. However, having Dallas there was a tad distracting to Amabel. Finally, Christine told Amabel and Dallas to go to another table and for Dallas to dictate something to Amabel to write. This worked fabulously! I have not idea what he told her to write, but she ended up with a whole page.



Wednesday, October 22nd, Brian's Birthday! After breakfast Emma, Mia and I ran across to Harris Teeter and bought the makings for pecan pie. Dallas stayed home playing a computer game. "Us Girls" then made a pecan pie, including the crust! While the pie cooked the girls did their reading, Emma a couple pages of Explode the Code Book 1 and Mia 3 segments of lesson 10 of Click-n-Kids on the computer. After lunch Dallas did his reading, 15 minutes of the Reading Pathways book. We then took Dallas and Emma to work-out at Fitwize4Kids. From there (Cary) we drove straight to Chapel Hill and dropped all three kids at Jenny Warnasch's to play while I went to an appointment at the Women's Birth (where Emma was born!) and Wellness Center. We then drove back home and had turkey quesidillas for dinner. We had planned on going out to dinner for Brian's birthday, but since we had Walking with Dinosaur's tickets for 7 pm we opted to eat fast at home (including pecan pie with vanilla ice cream!) Then at about 6:35 we left for the show, figuring it takes maybe 20 minutes to get there. Well. Do you remember that NC State Fair thing we went to on Sunday? Well, it's still going strong. Until midnight each night. And the RBC Center is RIGHT NEXT TO THE FAIR GROUNDS! We pulled into our parking spot at 7:18 pm, ran into the building, and slipped into our seat with the big animatronic dinosaurs already circling the hockey arena. The show was pretty awesome. Worth the drive. And worth the money.



Thursday We arrived at Christine's at 9:30 am. She took Emma, Amabel, and Jaeger (and Kevynn....) to Arianna's art class in Hillsborough. The rest of us (Dallas, Mia, Luci and I) stayed at Christine's house. Dallas was listening to a book on my mp3 player. Mia and Luci played. I ironed Girl Scout badges and patches onto Emma and Mia's uniforms. Then I planned out some activities for the Daisy's meeting. Once everyone else was back we had lunch (fish sticks, mozzarella quesidillas with pizza sauce, and some pasta) it was time to head out again. Christine buckled Kevynn (age 7 mo.) into her carseat and then Christine got into my car drove off. Off to her dentist appointment (week 2.) I got in Christine's Suburban with SEVEN KIDS! and drove to the THEA park day at Herdon Rd. Park.



Friday The girls went to "Team Time" at the Chapel Hill YMCA, the first session. Dallas went to Trevin's house. I went to the dentist. Then to Girl Scouts. Then home.