Friday, March 11, 2005
Caddie, Monopoly, Agamemnon, and Hammurabi
Ok.. so I have been reading Caddie Woodlawn to the kids and the other night I read a section about a big boy in the school who gets in a fight with Caddie. The boy is a trouble maker and (long story short) he ends up getting .. as the book describes: " A whippin on the part of his person he is usually uccustomed to sitting on" Well.. needless to say.. I had to explain to Nate what in the world that was saying.. He finally laughed and said.. "OH.. spanked on his bottom!" .. well.. last night I was going to start reading again.. and as I always do .. I asked.." do yall remember what happened last time?" .. and Nate said.. "yeah.. that bad boy got spanked on his PERSON!" .. that was funny!
JO is doing good.. still taking it slow.. yesterday we had a hour and 1/2 long game of monopoly. (Nate won)... then Legos, coloring, and video games. Jo and I went outside while Cat and Nate were still napping and filled the bird feeder, he was happy to be outside. He is also counting the days until he can ride his bike again :)
We also got to watch a little show on tv about Greece, we were excitted to see the ancient city of Mycenae, and hear the narrator talk about Agamemnon and others we have talked about. (FUN!). Its so neat to see the kids get excitted and say: "hey.. that was the guy who...... " or whatever..
The other day Cat was watching an old star trek episode and she came running in the kitchen and said... "Hey Mom.. they just talked about Hammurabi on star trek!" (Little historical insert here: Hammurabi was the great king of Babylon who wrote a code of laws for his people. Although it is not the first set of laws in history it is the most well preserved. The laws were discovered in 1901 and are in the Louvre Museaum in Paris today.)
I am still tired and dont know if I will ever wake up feeling rested again. Lack of sleep is a exausting thing! (hehe)..
JO is doing good.. still taking it slow.. yesterday we had a hour and 1/2 long game of monopoly. (Nate won)... then Legos, coloring, and video games. Jo and I went outside while Cat and Nate were still napping and filled the bird feeder, he was happy to be outside. He is also counting the days until he can ride his bike again :)
We also got to watch a little show on tv about Greece, we were excitted to see the ancient city of Mycenae, and hear the narrator talk about Agamemnon and others we have talked about. (FUN!). Its so neat to see the kids get excitted and say: "hey.. that was the guy who...... " or whatever..
The other day Cat was watching an old star trek episode and she came running in the kitchen and said... "Hey Mom.. they just talked about Hammurabi on star trek!" (Little historical insert here: Hammurabi was the great king of Babylon who wrote a code of laws for his people. Although it is not the first set of laws in history it is the most well preserved. The laws were discovered in 1901 and are in the Louvre Museaum in Paris today.)
I am still tired and dont know if I will ever wake up feeling rested again. Lack of sleep is a exausting thing! (hehe)..
