Tuesday: parent teacher conference

We finally had Joshua's parent teacher conference today.  Joshua's doing great!  He's come out of his shell and plays with other kids, does well in class, and is doing well in academics, especially reading.  His reading score was 92 WPM and the goal for the end of first grade is 65 WPM.  It seems to have jumped up during this last testing cycle, but even so it was in the sixties.

It was almost a boring conference, but at the same time hearing good things about your child isn't that boring.

Monday: Tornado

Tornado followed me around a lot today.  It was nice to have a friend while doing chores.  I had a ton on my list and I almost finished everything!  A lot of them were short, but still important.  I also got some O:CtH done...it's been a while and I was "excited" to get back to it.

Isaac came home from school with a terrible headache.  He said it had just exploded right before the end of school.  He got to the car and crashed.  He made it inside, took some medicine, and then took a nap.  I expect it was a reaction to the vaccine.

Sunday: second shot

Isaac and Joshua got their second COVID shot today!  We were there for longer than I was hoping, and there were all these signs saying "expect a long wait" and "Vaccines after 4:30 canceled due to staffing".  I don't think the wait was as bad as they were advertising, but I was glad the boys had screens along.

To celebrate I let them pick out a treat.  They were rather excited...about the treat.

Saturday: box

 Boxes are so fun.

Friday: birthday

 Ben had a birthday!  It was pretty low-key, but still a lovely day.

Wednesday: Christmas decorating

Today we started decorating for Christmas.  There's really way too much Christmas stuff up now (and we still have one bin to go), but the boys are at a perfect age.  They want to help put the stuff up and they can do some of it themselves.  So...we go a bit overboard.

It's an old tree and some branches are falling off.  We gave them to the cats, hoping, rather fruitlessly, that they'd choose on those instead of the actual tree.

We did have to take down a lot of the Halloween/fall decorations.  While I made a few of these, the boys are getting very good at making things that you can tell what they are.

Also, the last two weeks saw a significant decline in O:CtH work due to a busy week and now no school.  Therefore, I'm initiating O:CtH - Christmas edition, in which we get rid of some of the decorations that we never put up anymore.  A bit sad, but we also keep getting new things and it's time. 

Monday: life

I finally remembered to move Mom's turtle inside for the winter.  Look at how happy it is to not be in the cold anymore.

 
Joshua decided to make an Easter Egg hunt.  Some of the eggs had candy, but some of them had exercises.  It was actually a rather fun mix.

Ben has been hanging up a piece of yellow yarn in our bathroom, so I took it to an extreme and had Isaac make a spider web.  He also made some spiders.