Monday, January 11, 2010
and now, just the regular, daily stuff
My last few postings have been centered either on crazy-Eric projects, or "big" outings with the family. Of course, in real life there's just little things going on...
Anna continues to be our spelling and math guru. She's had me create another tracking log for 20 hours of math work. When she hits the full 20 hours she gets another $20 from your's truly. She absolutely loves to spell -half the time when you ask her a question she responds by spelling the answer. She also has been putting overtime on her Leapster playing math games (and she seems to have a natural propensity for addition and subtraction).
We've been getting blasted by winter weather with sub-zero temperatures and lots of snow and ice so Pierce hasn't been able to do much bike riding (one of his favorite activities). One of our family holiday gifts was the Wii Fit Plus which includes bike riding -Pierce has been asking to play almost daily. Yeah for Wii-initiated exercise! Speaking of the Wii, both Nora and I have been doing our brand-new Biggest Loser Wii game. I highly recommend the game, its well executed and almost like having a personal trainer.
We went to Va. Beach for a few days after Christmas. Due to the high price of airfare, we decided to rent a minivan and drive from Kansas City to Virginia. We wanted to rent a vehicle for two reasons: a newer, more reliable vehicle than the ones we own, and a larger, more comfortable vehicle for a long-distance trek. I'm sure you can probably guess the net result, the rental car broke down in the mountains of Virginia and left us stranded for about 6 hours in the sub-freezing, snowing, rural reaches of the state. Fortunately, it happened when we'd exited the highway for gas, so we had access to food, water, heat and bathrooms. But it wasn't experience I'd care to go through again. After we got to town, we had a great visit with my Mom and both brothers and their families. And the return trip was uneventful (I hope to post some pictures soon).
Pierce and Anna were scheduled to return to school on Thursday, January 7. I played Mr. Mom for the first part of the week (I'm working from home and the kids are pretty self-sufficient), but then we got more snow and the kids got to stay home for all of the week. Aside from a little sledding, fort building, Wii-playing, online Web-Kinz-ing and swimming, it was pretty uneventful ;)
-Eric (Dad)
Anna continues to be our spelling and math guru. She's had me create another tracking log for 20 hours of math work. When she hits the full 20 hours she gets another $20 from your's truly. She absolutely loves to spell -half the time when you ask her a question she responds by spelling the answer. She also has been putting overtime on her Leapster playing math games (and she seems to have a natural propensity for addition and subtraction).
We've been getting blasted by winter weather with sub-zero temperatures and lots of snow and ice so Pierce hasn't been able to do much bike riding (one of his favorite activities). One of our family holiday gifts was the Wii Fit Plus which includes bike riding -Pierce has been asking to play almost daily. Yeah for Wii-initiated exercise! Speaking of the Wii, both Nora and I have been doing our brand-new Biggest Loser Wii game. I highly recommend the game, its well executed and almost like having a personal trainer.
We went to Va. Beach for a few days after Christmas. Due to the high price of airfare, we decided to rent a minivan and drive from Kansas City to Virginia. We wanted to rent a vehicle for two reasons: a newer, more reliable vehicle than the ones we own, and a larger, more comfortable vehicle for a long-distance trek. I'm sure you can probably guess the net result, the rental car broke down in the mountains of Virginia and left us stranded for about 6 hours in the sub-freezing, snowing, rural reaches of the state. Fortunately, it happened when we'd exited the highway for gas, so we had access to food, water, heat and bathrooms. But it wasn't experience I'd care to go through again. After we got to town, we had a great visit with my Mom and both brothers and their families. And the return trip was uneventful (I hope to post some pictures soon).
Pierce and Anna were scheduled to return to school on Thursday, January 7. I played Mr. Mom for the first part of the week (I'm working from home and the kids are pretty self-sufficient), but then we got more snow and the kids got to stay home for all of the week. Aside from a little sledding, fort building, Wii-playing, online Web-Kinz-ing and swimming, it was pretty uneventful ;)
-Eric (Dad)
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