Braille, Art, William Tell

The other week our read-aloud was a short biography of Louis Braille. It was really interesting and at the perfect level for L. This week we're reading a story about William Tell and I think it is introducing too many political concepts, she's having trouble following, but I think it's still somewhat interesting for her.

Last week's art was a paper collage, and L is going to make a picture of a wolf for an art contest that Bella's girl scout troop is having. The 12 winners will get their pictures on a calendar for wolf haven and get a free copy of the calendar. Her first wolf pic was super cute, but then she wrote on it. I only got a blurry picture of it, unfortunately.

As for me, I've been learning how to carry baby J in a woven wrap better. I just bought a size 4 didymos seagreen wrap and have to figure out some carries for a size 4...

My houses/trees/clouds collage:

Lydia's mermaid paper collage:

Me looking crazy, because things are crazy:

H helping me try out my new wrap:

At the park:

Homeschool Co-op

At the beginning of the year we joined a homeschool co-op. It meets once a week for three hours and is pretty laid back. They do a brief opening exercise, then an hour of art, a 30 minute snack/recess, and an hour of some other topic. L's class is doing fairy tales. H is in preschool, and P and J are both in nursery, where I am the "teacher". They also do a field trip once a month. So far we like it. Most of the families are LDS and all of them seem pretty nice. So far the field trips have been a trip to the Puyallup fish hatchery in January, and this week we went to the Boom Shaka Olympia trampoline place, where the kids had a lot of fun. I was a little wary since a former ward member very recently broke his neck at a trampoline place and is now quadriplegic. :( It's very sad. I don't love spending a couple hundred more on homeschool, but I do love that my kids get to be around other kids their ages, since I'm so introverted I am very bad at arranging playdates and whatnot.

We also recently went up to the ski hill for a free snowboarding clinic for kids. H is a natural but he was very wary and stopped his lesson early. L was eating a lot of snow but had a lot of fun. Taking 4 kids skiing is exhausting!