Today I’m watching my adorable little twin nephews, Hans and Erich, while my sister, Honey, volunteers at Hanna and Ellie’s school for lunch time duty. They are such little characters and watching them brings back so many memories of my own twins when they were two years old.

I found an interesting offer of pottery classes, at Kids ‘N’ Clay Pottery Studio, for toddlers called Mudpies not too far away from my home. I called the owner last Friday and talked with her a bit and made arrangements for Quinn and me to visit later this afternoon to see if this would be something that would interest him. He has a sensory thing about his hands being dirty which is why he doesn’t like to fingerpaint so I’m not even sure he will want to touch the clay but it would be great for his fine and gross motor skills so we’re going to go give it a look-see.

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We had a fairly quiet but busy weekend. The twins spent the weekend riding bikes and playing football with the neighborhood children, Sean spent it sleeping and Michael working on a paper for school. The twins had a continuous stream of friends come home with them…Buddy, Bubba and Brian. Seems “B” names are popular in our neighborhood. *smile* It’s good to hear the sound of little boys’ laughter but boy, are they rough when they play!

Quinn was still a bit sick so he and I stayed home while Michael and the boys went to church. I spent the time cleaning, cooking, and baking…pot roast, baked mac and cheese for Michael, Parmesan cornbread and Laurie’s Chocolate Crumb Bars. They were delicious though I did have to improvise a bit since I only had about 1/4 cup of the semi-sweet morsels left. I had an unopened bag of the milk chocolate and caramel morsels, so I used them and it turned out just fine.

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I made a lot of progress on Quinn’s “I Can Do It” lapbook thanks to the many links provided by Kim. Thank you again! I need to find some type of “I can do it” poem and it will almost be finished. Quinn loved posing for the camera and loves looking at it so I guess I can consider this a success in our joint homeschooling adventure.

Speaking of success, yesterday while I was standing in front of the washer putting the shower curtain rings back on the shower curtain that I had just washed, Quinn came up beside me and asked, “Can I help you?” as clear as could be. He really is making good progress in his speech and with helping Mommy! He handed me each ring and we counted them and commented on their “green” color with each one. Life’s teachable moments…this is what homeschooling is and I treasure each lesson that they’ve taught me.

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“Come, little leaves,” said the wind one day,
“Come o’er the meadows with me and play:
Put on your dresses of red and gold -
For summer is gone and the days grow cold.”