second stages

Well Drama Queen had her second gymnastics class this week. Drew takes her and this time she seemed to have a bit of an issue of him leaving so he ended up sitting in on the class. DQ hid a bit, hung out with dad a bit, but in the end she tried all the activities. I think this class is a challenge for her since she sees other kids who are much better at gymnastics than she is. This is the first time that she isn't on equal footing and feels the lack. DQ usually quits if it's not easy, but gymnastics so far is something that she wants to do bad enough to actually work on it. She's been doing some jumps around the house that she learned this week. I'm hopeful that she will keep it up at least til the end of the session.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was finished and now we are awaiting Charlie and the Glass Elevator from the library. I've requested it so it should be to us early next week. I'm wondering if we're going to go through a lot of Roald Dahl books in the near future. :)

Action Man has been active and also loving LEGO Indiana Jones on the Xbox 360 this week. He's all about being an airplane these last couple of days with arms and sounds. Very fun.

DQ's co-op was today. AM once again had no interest going downstairs with the rest of the kids and their moms for the planned activity. We stayed upstairs while he had a snack and walked around looking and playing with some toys. Both DQ and AM enjoyed the drum making activity. The class downstairs was starting to learn the beat to Hand Hand Fingers Thumb by Dr. Seuss. The children are going to drum and some will recite the words at the co-op's talent show.

We're going down to the grandparents' for the weekend since Drew and I will be attneding a homeschooling conference. The kids are looking forward to seeing their grandparents and going to the children's musuem in Richmond. Shhh, they don't know Cliffor the Big Red Dog will be at the children's musuem this Saturday. That's going to be a surprise for them!