some of the weekend videos...

I have more to post, but missed out on lots during the week. I knew it would happen, but with school and other things interrupting our weeks, time seems to be speeding up. I can't imagine the speed of the full-time student, kids in daycare week. I suspect something on the order of light speed, at a minimum it will be super sonic. I am bracing myself for the sadness associated with that, but still looking forward to school. Taylor is in Lakeland Mon through Thur. for a few weeks for classes held for kids at the local college. He is taking a guitar class, a rocketry class, and an Imedia class, so they sound pretty fun. He says he is enjoying them, which is the point. Jewel is just getting the hang of reader rabbit, and at nap time said to me, "no, can't go sweepy momma!" She also copies Trevor at ever quicker intervals. She only watched him help me cook twice this week, and now she thinks she has to help too. She even copies him with potty time. She follows him and sits on her potty and (mostly successfully) pees, which is a big help to my potty training efforts. Tonight after Trevor was asleep she got up and called me and insisted on going in the potty, and this time she actually did it, all on her own! Trevor learned to cook, build things, skateboard, recycle, play the drums, and even taught Jewel several things. He is sometimes very sweet to Jewel. He brings her drinks and tells her how to do things the "right" way. He taught her to count, sing several songs, and to go potty (almost) and without me asking. (It is not always peaches and cream with them, however.) What great kids, and so smart. I am really looking forward to their reactions to school. I don't know how much "school" goes on at daycare, but I suspect that the balance between "learning" in the classical sense and "play" will be about equal to what we do at home. I doubt there will be as much music, but I can make up for that. I am sure there will be other good things that are gained from it that I am not thinking of, but the biggest thing will be the degree. That alone will make it worth the changes we have to accept.

end of anthropology....

**If you think that is a ruined slinky stretched between the bed and changing table, you would be mistaken. It is a "pshquoooopth, force field, you know, shoop, like that, to keep the bad guys out, you know like bubba says." Yes, of course it is, at 11 pm it will become trash.*** Tonight was the last class of my first attempt to "go back to school" (AAAAH! I sound like a commercial for Obama.) and it was a definite success. Of course, I kind of knew I would love the class before I took it. I am glad that I enjoyed it so much, it confirms my suspicions that now is the right time to do this. One class down, about a hundred to go. I started counting them, but got to 80 and just estimated that last bit. I am very excited about next semester. I will finally get to do some math and physics. I think Trent is looking forward to my American History class, I am totally not. But, in the meantime I have a lot to do to get ready for what is coming. Time for the spring cleaning that didn't get completed before and I am going to rearrange some things for the new school situations (Taylor and me). There isn't much cleanup needed, but we do want to get the yard prepared and possibly some painting done, too. And, Jewel is getting a little potty "hell week" so to speak, to kind of jumpstart the lagging potty learning, so that should be fun. I also plan to start some reading for the classes I have coming up, because it seemed to really serve me well in this class. I wouldn't have been able to plan it as well as it turned out, but having read the suggested readings from the World History lecture really made the Anthropology class easier. So, I will spend the next two months reading a few physics books I haven't gotten to yet and watching the American History lecture with Taylor. I may do a little more Spanish prep, too. I don't know what to do about the "lack of prep time" before the spring semester, but I only have one class to really prep for that semester. I may have to (**gasp) learn during class. At any rate, I have a little to do, some busy work to quell my excitement, and a whole semester to look forward to. And, hopefully, a healing summer with Trent in the meantime.