Amelia and Jacob have been having a great time playing with the other children on our street, and meeting all the people I associate with on a regular basis. I took them to the church knitting group on Tuesday, and they just loved it! The knitters thought it was wonderful that I was teaching little ones their ages to knit, and of course, Jacob had a captive audience of ten grandmotherly type ladies, most of whom have granddaughters, not grandsons... so they just loved watching him with his antics as well!
We put a kiddie pool in our back yard, partly for Rebecca, but largely for Amelia and Jacob, because we knew they love to be able to splash around, and being "stuck at home" for so long, we figured they might like something to *do* at home. We're all enjoying the pool a lot! Justin has even got in on the fun once! Rebecca isn't so much a fan, I think mostly because the two big kids like to splash, and she just wants to float without getting splashed! I can't say that I blame her, because I don't particularly like being too close when they're in the pool either!
We've been going to the library on Mondays, and I signed the kids up for the library reading program this summer this past Monday... they've already read 9-10 books each just since Monday afternoon! Of course, Jake's are all read TO him, but most of Amelia's have been ones she read to herself, or went back and read again a half dozen times later on. Denise gave Rebecca a set of "Little People" farm books, they're board books in a little case that do animal names, sounds, colours, shapes, etc. She just loves listening to any of them! Of course, she generally likes listening to any book we'll read to her, lol. I'm just waiting for her to figure out how to carry a book to us to have it read to her, because she is already interested in looking at the books herself, but hasn't quite figured out how to open them and "read" on her own.
Something I've been doing with both older children every day is a little "school work" (Jake knows his is, Amelia hasn't figured out that hers is yet...). We're continuing with Jacob's old Kindergarten materials, and Amelia has a gr. 2 "all in one" workbook. However, I've also been pulling out pages from her old gr. 1 math book, because we're discovering her math skills are very sadly lacking! Things she supposedly "knows how to do" because she did them at school this year, she doesn't even grasp the concept, let alone know how to do it, so we're working on it again. She objected to "first grade work" until I said the 1 on the cover was simply telling us it was LEVEL 1. LOL. Jacob is sounding out short vowel words, marking the vowels, and now spelling! He'll be starting long vowel words in about 20 days... so I guess before school starts again.
We've started Rebecca on some solids, she really likes apples, pears, sweet potato, and she's getting used to rice. She loves to munch on (raw) carrots or celery, and I tried her on apricots, but she started spitting up a lot and other stuff you probably don't want to know about, so we backed off on that one. We'll try that one again maybe in a few months. Right now I'm working on making her some more applesauce, because she just loves the stuff! And... she's now figured out how to climb out of her bassinet... to the point of having just fallen out about a minute ago! (YIKES!! good thing it's only 2ft off the floor!!) So, now we have to find a different solution for her sleeping in our very little room, because I just can NOT imagine putting her down in the bassinet anymore. :-(
And, with all that, I leave you with a picture of Rebecca... playing with some Plantain flowers. :-)
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