Oobleck!

What a week!
The weather started out nice and ended cold and nasty. Still we had our outing to the base on Tuesday to meet friends at the skate park and got milk from the farm. Other friends came over on Wednesday and James was off on Thursday.

Jacob and Micah made up world's for themselves on paper. A new name, job(they were pro skaters of course with a million $ day income) they had a budget, complete with house payment, cars, grocery/ bills etc. They made detailed drawings of their mansions rooms( complete with game rooms and indor skate park, walls lined with skateboarding equipment in their pro shop) Many, many pages of detailed drawings and figures. I hadn't seen them so excited in a long time. James and I got a big kick out of it. However, I was a little disturbed to see what their dream life was like and what they valued. Anyway, I guess that can be classified as math.
James had them both do the budget with him and pay bills(which is probably what inspired them)More Math!

Jacob and Micah are reading the Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekkar as well as Samuel Morris. This is adult level reading. They both have been writing in their journals as well.

Their use of the vtechs have slowed a bit.
Nathan slept with me one night and we took turns writing letters on each others backs and guesing them. He learned a couple of new ones and still remembered them and was able to draw them a couple of days later.
Nathan does several pages in his preschool book just about every day, and likes me to read to him a lot. He draws, cuts and colors a lot too. We(Hannah, Nathan, Eden, and I) played several indoor games yesterday. Duck Duck Goose, and Mother May I and Jesus Says. They were hysterical to watch! Eden had no clue what she was doing but she loved touching everyone on the head and saying "duck" and then running and screaming through the house. It was a blast- good exercise and listening skills anyway.
Hannah and I started a doll today that we had a pattern for. She plans to send it to her child she is sponsering in India. She has been itching to use her new sewing basket(complete with all supplies that she got for her birthday. Nathan hung out and watched and was very interested and even helped do some of the stuffing.
She and I did more abacus work and oral review of facts while sewing together.
I had a discussion with her about suffixes, prefixes, root words, and tenses.
She has started a habit of reading to Nathan and Eden at bedtime while I am getting ready for bed.

She and Nathan earned money for massaging my feet and back and put it in the can for GFA. AAAhhhhh

I took the 3 younger ones to the forest and field the other day and we gathered more plantain which is drying now. Hope to get a lot more nettle and dandelion before the weather gets too bad.
We made some eczema cream- WEeelll actually...., the first batch turned out to be OOBLECK because I added way too much actual insides of many aloe vera leaves. So now it is a rubbery, green slime- rubs in well though. The second batch turned out to be a lotion instead of cream, cause too much liquid. Think I'll stick to salves next time(sigh)The ingredients in both were: plantain, comfry, calendula, olive oil, cocoa butter, beeswax, tea tree oil, rosemary oil, water, and borax, and aloe vera in the goop. Big mess- Big fun!
In the oven we are infusing a very potent antibiotic containing, olive oil, garlic, olive leaf, oregano, thyme, basil, and comfry.(Sounds like it'd be good on pasta!) I will make a salve out of half and leave the rest as an oil to rub on externally or eat on pata and salad). Should be good!

Tonight the homeschool group got together for a potluck and Bunko! We had so much fun with our friends!!! Can't say we didn't get plenty of socialization this week!