When Madison got home today, we went straight to work on homework and piano. Homework never takes that long at all - at this point, she's acing spelling tests (this week's words end with "ap," like "snap," "clap," "map," and "cap"), and reading her book assignments pretty well. Today's reading had to do with maps, and their importance. Madison read this rather well, and then went on to correctly identify the seven continents. We could ask her which one had Paris, penguins, or the Great Wall of China, and she gave a correct answer every time. Homework is amazingly easy to do with her - if anything, she's a bit impatient to get things done. Her mistakes come now because of speed, so we're trying to emphasize the importance of accuracy over velocity!
Her piano is getting tougher - we're doing this little finger dance to get all eight notes with one hand, and that requires quite a bit of practice for Daddy. Madison is catching on of course, but we both need to do a lot of practice runs on different songs. One song is easy on the note scale: "Morning," by Edvard Grieg. It's an easy up-and-down-the-scale bit, but it's the finger work that surprises you. Or, at least, it surprises people like me who don't play very well.
Yesterday was "Hobbit Day." I think this is because it's Frodo's birthday or something. THEREFORE, we did some more journeying in Lego Middle Earth, which Madison enjoyed of course. We did that until dinner time, which was hot dogs, potato salad and corn on the cob. This wouldn't be the last time we saw these items tonight, as the forecast was looking a little unusual later on. In fact, I'd say it was looking like it was going to be Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
We got this movie pretty cheap recently - and with the sequel coming out on Friday, it was a fun idea to do some catching up on part one tonight. Mommy got some popcorn ready, and we once again found ourselves watching a movie together on the couch.
Tonight before bedtime, we reached a part of the Bible reading story that could not be interrupted. That is to say, Daddy couldn't say, "Let's stop for now and pick up tomorrow." We read through the story of the crucifixion - but got to the resurrection as well. It was child-friendly, but it was still heavy and is always hard to get through. Madison knew the angels were there at the end. She knew they were ready to roll the stone away, and knew that Jesus would be back to let Peter know everything would be okay. But it's still difficult getting there, isn't it?
Her piano is getting tougher - we're doing this little finger dance to get all eight notes with one hand, and that requires quite a bit of practice for Daddy. Madison is catching on of course, but we both need to do a lot of practice runs on different songs. One song is easy on the note scale: "Morning," by Edvard Grieg. It's an easy up-and-down-the-scale bit, but it's the finger work that surprises you. Or, at least, it surprises people like me who don't play very well.
Yesterday was "Hobbit Day." I think this is because it's Frodo's birthday or something. THEREFORE, we did some more journeying in Lego Middle Earth, which Madison enjoyed of course. We did that until dinner time, which was hot dogs, potato salad and corn on the cob. This wouldn't be the last time we saw these items tonight, as the forecast was looking a little unusual later on. In fact, I'd say it was looking like it was going to be Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.
We got this movie pretty cheap recently - and with the sequel coming out on Friday, it was a fun idea to do some catching up on part one tonight. Mommy got some popcorn ready, and we once again found ourselves watching a movie together on the couch.
Tonight before bedtime, we reached a part of the Bible reading story that could not be interrupted. That is to say, Daddy couldn't say, "Let's stop for now and pick up tomorrow." We read through the story of the crucifixion - but got to the resurrection as well. It was child-friendly, but it was still heavy and is always hard to get through. Madison knew the angels were there at the end. She knew they were ready to roll the stone away, and knew that Jesus would be back to let Peter know everything would be okay. But it's still difficult getting there, isn't it?
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