Return of the Dutch Boys and more…
House on Red Corner · 2010-08-11 · Daughter, Father, Son, bakfiets, homeschool
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This morning, I was drinking coffee and sitting in front of my window on the world, ie my computer, when I noticed a particular friend of mine appear in my Instant Messenger buddylist. I said, “Hiya!” and she asked me what we had planned for the day because she needed something to do, so we made plans to meet up and let the kids all play with each other.
I hurried TheBubster through her ABCs & 123s; currently she is writing a sentence by tracing and then copying the words, the content is about Ancient Greece and her mathematics worksheet is Addition and Subtraction exercises with the number line Just as an important note, we are not yet dealing with negative numbers but it is possible that we will introduce them relatively soon. Then we hustled down the Westside Bike highway to get to the park.
The kids all got along swell. My friend made a comment about how good LittleBud’s is with a soccer ball. Later a complete stranger came over to the field to express his opinion that LittleBud has potential to grow up to be one of the “top 99% of football players in the World.” It was a bit outlandish to hear this, but the boy does love chasing after a ball.
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After we were exhausted and overheated, we went home to wait for a surprise. I knew what it was but the kids were not expecting it at all, they just knew it was a surprise. When it arrived, TheBubster helped figure out what to do with it and how we should put it together with the large wooden box we found last week on the sidewalk. Pictured below is the kids enjoying their new surprise.
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Finally, I got an email today from Kidzui, which is an adaptation of the Firefox Web browser which has curated content for kids. I like it alot because it gives TheBubster a great deal of freedom to explore the web and find things she likes, that are entertaining and sometimes even educational. It lists all the websites that she visits, the videos she watches and several other areas of interesting data is reported and I can make selections about permissions. Anyways this video keeps popping up in her list of watched videos, TheWife and I found it hilarious so you are all forced to watch it as well.