Eating out of trucks 🙂

Every now and then a wild hair strikes and I decide to feed the boys either something crazy or feed them out of something nuts. Last night Ben ate tuna salad out of his dumptruck. They were both amused – I kept hoping Dave would get home in time to see it but he had to work late and didn’t quite get to enjoy the festivities. Soon they turned a bit wild and the truck got flung across the table. Fun boys.

Sam has some big news – he is READING! We’ve been working toward this for a while in spurts but while we were traveling it really seemed to start clicking – there are so many opportunities to make connections between the utility of reading and the immediate payback – i.e. finding which stop on the Metro you need, pressing buttons on elevators, signs in museums… I am so excited for him and thrilled I was involved. We’re on the fence about home schooling next year vs enrolling him in the local K. So many pluses on both sides. We will keep evaluating and asking questions to see which path might be best. So many people I admire are home schooling, my esteemed cousin Leslie being one of them! I keep meeting more and more people and ask a bunch of questions every chance I get. I’m evaluating charter schools, including a unique hybrid homeschool option which gives you a laptop and curriculum as well as a certified teacher coach and weekly classroom time. There is so much to consider, but it’s an exciting time and I’m so looking forward to his next more formal steps. This weekend he’s thinking Bishop Museum for the new dinosaur exhibit!! (That’s one of the books he’s most interested in reading now.)