It has been a busy few days. But when isn't it busy? We continue to do school each weekday. Once Daniel remarked, "We should take a snow day!" I reasoned that as long as we are at home we don't need to take a snow day. He agreed. I guess it just sounded good to him at the time.
School went really well this week and we completed all our assignments in a timely manner, even art. I don't know why I don't like doing art or science experiments. I think it is because I am a visual learner. I would rather read about it or watch someone else do it. For the most part the children do like art and the experiments so we do them and I try not to let on that I am less than enthused about it.
Leah continues to read without being formally taught. I have just been having her learn as http://www.mfwbooks.com/ suggests for preschoolers. We have the preschooler package that this company sells. It is mainly Lauri Toys, http://www.mfwbooks.com/preschool.htm with ideas of games to play with the toys by MFW. Plus she is a quick learner. That always helps, too.
Daniel, too, is doing well. This week in Singapore Math 3B he was learning pounds and ounces. He found it wasn't as easy to convert ounces to pounds and pounds to ounces as the metric system was. Too bad our country didn't adopt that system instead. At least he is learning both.
A few weeks ago Dan from SpellQuizzer contacted me on my blog. He designed a spelling software that he now sells. You can go to his website http://www.SpellQuizzer.com and check it out. He gave me a free download of his product. I will be writing a review on my blog soon. I need to have Daniel use it a bit before I write about it. I have to say that I do like it so far. Also Dan will give a free download to one of you who reads the review and comments on it. So check back about this as I plan to do it soon.
Last week we got tickets to Monster Jam in Fargo for Saturday night. On Friday Leah came down with a cold. It wasn't too bad. But on Friday night she was feverish most of the night. She and I stayed home from church. I do get a little fearful when she gets sick especially when she gets a fever as it was only a little over a year ago when she was very ill and hospitalized with pneumonia. We thought that Tim and Daniel would have to go to Monster Jam without us.
Daniel felt so bad that I wouldn't go. Tim and I talked and decided if Leah's fever didn't come back and if she seemed better we would still go. By 3:00 she was doing really well, no fever and barely any runny nose. So we all left for Fargo.
Before the show we ate at Chili's (which wasn't very good.) Brandon and his friend, Riley, went to the show with us. It was a nightmare trying to get into the Fargo Dome parking lot. It took us 1/2 hour to park! They really need to have a better system. Their parking lot wasn't cleaned out and the snow was at least 6 inches deep. We had to park way back and trudge through a lot of snow. Leah was the only one wearing boots. The rest of us got wet feet.
By the time we got into the Dome we were about 10 minutes late for the show. But it was worth the wait. I loved the sound of power from those big trucks. You could feel the vibrations. My favorite part was the racing. Two trucks would race against each other at a time. They would start on opposite sides and go around and over the track at the same time. You could see who was ahead as there was a center line. It was amazing to see the trucks flying through the air. One truck did a wheelie and tipped over. The driver didn't get hurt and was able to compete in the "Free Style." They also had motorcycles doing tricks for part of the show. We all enjoyed it and would like to go again.
This morning Daniel got out Dustin's old monster truck, The Claw. He is having fun playing with it. On this video the truck didn't make it over all the cars. But it can and does!
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