Category: Homeschool

Since the very first time we went to the Grossology exhibit at the Science and History museum, Nadia has been dying for Mike to come. We went with a few other people, but hadn’t had a chance to go with him until this week. Nadia was counting down the days and every time she mentioned it Amelie would pipe in with “See the booger guy!” (FYI – you can learn the difference between snot and a booger at Grossology).

Daddy and girls trying to make the vomit machine work.

Amelie pretending to play on the computer and the girls shooting allergens into the big nose to make it sneeze. The girls climbed the “skin” climbing wall, played on the body part slide and more while we tried to read the gross little factoids.

After Grossology we went over to the RISK exhibit and the girls laid on the bed of nails. It was very cool and Nadia said it tickled when the nails lifted you up. There was a lot of interesting reading in there, but it wasn’t so exciting for the kids so we didn’t stay long.

The girls in firefighter gear that swallowed them up. The exhibit also had flack jackets and other gear for risky professions.

Nadia and I at Simply Fondue celebrating the end of Kindergarten. I had a gift certificate for dessert for two and thought Nadia would get a kick out of going there. She finished kindergarten about 6 weeks ago and we have already started her 1st grade school, but I thought this would still be fun since all her friends were about to start school for the first time.

When we sat down Nadia said, “What are those things? They look like dog bowls!” Then she picked up her skewer and said, “You could get hurt with this thing.” And so the running commentary of our night began. It was really fun to spend time alone with her and she thought the place was so fun.

When the server lit our chocolate on fire Nadia said, “WOW! Wait, are we going to get burned?” Then she wanted to trade marshmallows for eating because hers got too burned. We chose the Peanut Butter cup chocolate dip for our dessert. They brought out bananas, strawberries, rice crispy treats, pineapple, brownies, and angel food cake for dipping. The bananas were Nadia’s favorite. The most entertaining thing for me was how the male staff were falling all over themselves to take care of Nadia. Four different men came over to offer her more fruit, more marshmallows and more milk. You could tell that they really got a kick out of having a sweet little girl in the place, especially since they have so few kids they didn’t even have a way to ring up her milk.

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Later that night Nadia helped me make some cookies for the staff at Oakmont and Mike took some funny photos of her.

We had to roll the dough into little balls and that is why she was so covered in chocolate by the end.

I don’t know if I have ever said it here on the blog, but we are homeschooling year round. Here are my top 2 reasons: 1) because kids should be learning all the time anyway 2) I REALLY like to take time off when the weather is lovely in North Texas (it’s going to get ugly around here in a few weeks and inside activities are good!) So here is what we have been up to in May and the beginning of June.

“Be still my heart” says the book junkie mother. Nadia reading to Amelie.

Amelie with lacing cards and the Kumon beginning coloring book.

Amelie with her lacing beads by color. And she found a little snail friend in the backyard.

Nadia doing some Time 4 Learning.

Nadia doing her Chinese school homework while Amelie makes sticker creations.

We have also been doing some unit studies, reading lots of books, playing outside and crafting. The girls are also taking swim lessons 4 days a week and Nadia is still going to gymnastics one evening a week.