A Much Better Day

Thank goodness Leilanidecided to rent Dora yesterday! She watched it this morning while Natalia and I slept in a bit. Just enough for us to all get a good start to the day. We finished the first Molly book - Meet Molly, which I read to her while she ate her breakfast. Natalia was incredily uninterested and watched Baby Einstein instead.

Phonics went amazingly smoothly, math not so much. She keeps making her 6's and 7's backwards, so I need to find a writing program that will help with that. For bible we're working on memorizing John 3:16 for Sparkies. They've broken it up into sections which I almost think makes it harder. However, she's doing a fantastic job with it. History and science were just reading and oral answers, which were nice and easy. Leilani can now play an "a" and a "b" on her flutophone. I decided on the flutophone for music because it's small and portable, and she and I didn't seem to really be "getting" piano together. I think I need to find an actual piano teacher for her.

Natalia is definitely sitting up by herself for short periods of time. Of course, when I praise her and tell her how fantastic she's doing, she gets all excited and goes a bit rigid and falls over, with the biggest grin on her face and her eyes all alight with happiness. It's funny and adorable, all at the same time.

On our drive to take the movies back to Blockbuster, I was enjoying the drive, fresh air, greenery, new colors on the trees and sort of lost track of where I was. I passed our turn by a huge margin. But it really was a beautiful drive, so instead of getting upset, I just looked at the beauty all around us and Leilani and I tried to see who could see leaves turning first.

So, really, today was a much better day. It's amazing how much sleep helps!