First Day of School

Today was our first day of school. 🙂
To begin with, I took Nicholas to the Nature Alphabet at The Tacoma Nature Center on 19th St. (otherwise known as Snake Lake to natives). Their website said the Nature Alphabet started at 11:00a.m. Nicholas & I arrived at four minutes to 11. The only person there was the lady behind the desk (usually there are a lot of children & parents/grandparents milling about).
I asked her if I was late, and she said, “Yes, ma’am, you are.”
I looked at my watch and said, “When did it start?”
“10:30,” she replied.
“Your website said it started at 11.”
“It did?”
Then we had this whole conversation on when the next class was going to be. She said it was at 9:20, but she meant it was ON 9/20. That one starts at 1:30. Grrrr.
So now, instead of having something easy to do every other week with Nicholas, we have this THING to remember. The first week of the month it is at 10:30a.m. The third week of the month it is at 1:30p.m. IF I can remember, Evva said she’d take Nicholas to the ones in the afternoon. Good grief, though – it’s tough enough to remember a once a week thing! I don’t know why I am making this into such a big deal. I am pretty sure we can remember this. Guess it is just that no apology was given, no “oh, dear, we’ll have to fix that right away!” Only a “do you get our newsletter?” (because all the correct information is in the newsletter) GRRRR. Sometimes customer service (or lack thereof) really gets me.

Anyways, Nicholas & I came home. He was sad to come home, even though he’d been worried about going before we left. 🙂 Jef had been teaching Jonathan about FTPing and other things computer-related. They worked on TostaCaffe’s website. You can check it out, if you’d like. 🙂

Once I settled down (I was so sad this morning & the whole nature center thing really threw me off), we started school. We began with prayer & the pledge of allegiance. Then we talked about the 5 senses. We did an experiment on how fish hear without ears. Then we learned about Delaware, the first of our 50 states. 🙂 The boys are learning how to sit still. They both read a couple poems out loud, and Mommy read one too. We talked about why you would write poems instead of just saying something.
It was time for Jef to go to work, so we had lunch. Then the kids did their paper work – math, writing, filling out a map of Delaware, and a word-search on Delaware. I did the dishes.
I let them play on Starfall for 15 minutes then it was naptime. Nicholas had fallen asleep earlier, so I didn’t get a whole lot of down time. But that was ok.
Nicholas and I worked on counting. We talked about what horses, pigs & bunnies like to eat.

Now they’ve had supper so we are going to watch “The Velveteen Rabbit”. After the movie, they will go to bed!

Tomorrow we will study Delaware some more, go for a walk, and do some poetry writing. 🙂