Things That Aren't Too Exciting on a Thursday

It seems almost inconceivable that I haven't written anything in almost a week but there's been a whole lotta nothing going on here. We've had just some nice normal days. Not going anywhere. Nothing special. Which in between a week away house sitting and a week away on vacation is actually kind of special in it;s own right.

We are at that point where I want to start gathering and packing but it's actually just a little too soon to do that. I am just twiddling my thumbs until vacation. Except you know getting my house clean because everyone knows having a clean house when you come home from vacation is just about the best thing ever.

In a little what have we been up to post... since C hasn't been on an airplane since he was 3 months old and M has never been, we've been watching the TSA YouTube video for kids so they will know what to expect. We've even practiced standing with our hands over our heads for the full body scanners.

Anyway, all the prep is paying off because soon there was a line and all the little people, animals and peg dolls had to go through the metal detector. (Pluto's dog house.) Insert the laugh crying emoji right here please.

We've been cramming in a lot of educational work this week before our trip. By educational I mean just in fun ways of course. M has come a long way with her pen control this summer. Not too shabby for 2.5 I think. She is not going to preschool this fall because she won't be three in time but we are going to start learning our letters and sounds a little. 

In some of the books C reads they have mentioned sheds. Because it's an easy to read word. Only it's kind of a hard word to contextualize if you're five and have never experienced one. So we took a little field trip over to my besties and C's Godmother's house to look at her shed. We also spelled shed with sticks. 

So now he gets that a shed is not as big as a house or garage and full of the tools that we keep in our garage. Hooray for learning.

I am really at a place with C where I question whether we made the right choice on the kindergarten front. He just excelled academically this summer with very little guidance from me. I am not sure exactly why, but Tuesday he rewrote the entire "The Monster at the End of This Book."

He interpreted each illustration in his own 5-year-old way and wrote every single word of the book. He even tried his hand at typography and if the book had red or pink writing, he would switch from his pen to a crayon. 

And yet, even as he initiated his own copy work, I still think all-day school is too much for him right now. So that leaves us where we are. And all this overthinking is part of the reason I need a vacation! 

Okay then, that's what we are up to. Have a wonderful Thursday!