It's All Fun and Games Until Someone Breaks Out the Latin. Wait...It's Still Fun and Games
Thursday, October 25, 2012 at 10:38PM We have had wonderful weather here, and we have been enjoying it! The kids have spent hours and hours outside the last couple of weeks. It seems like that's a good thing, since a cold front is rolling through tonight for the weekend. It dropped 20o or so in a few hours from this afternoon to early evening!
The kids love to play on the church playground still. Eliana has been diligently working on her monkey bar skills. She made it across on her own once, and since then hasn't quite been able to do it. It surprised her most of all when she did do it that one time.
The three of them were very busy one day hauling little bikes from one side of the playground to the other.
I asked what they were doing and Michaela told me,"It's a car dealership."
Aren't they the little entrepreneurs?!
There have been a couple of times when just Eliana and I were at the park. She is so funny to watch. She runs from one thing to the next, stops when something catches her eye...carefree like a little kid ought to be.
She did the same thing on these monkey bars, which are at the park across the street from the church, as she did on the ones at the church. She made it all the way one time, and hasn't been able to do it since. There must be a name for that phenomenon.
The three actually cooperated for a picture. They had nice clothes on because there was a concert at our church after their choir practice. We stayed for that. (The Chancel Choir and the Orchestra joined forces and sang hymns. It was amazing!)
Michaela was frustrated that she was too big to do anything anymore. She makes me laugh. She sat on the slide and pouted for me.
Since she could no longer do many of the things she has loved to do for years, she decided to teach Eliana some of her tricks. For example, she coached her on how to jump from the little climbing thingy to the raised bar, and catch it in mid-air.
And yes, I did just about keel over the first time she did that. Michaela said to me,"She can totally do it, Mom!" And she could.
Now, it's not all fun and playing around here. When we're home, they're studying hard!
Actually, the truth about this picture is that Michaela was teaching Christian some Latin. Just for fun. She has also taken it upon herself to learn the Greek alphabet. Mike said,"Clearly she doesn't have enough schoolwork." I say,"Clearly I have my work cut out for me."
Reader Comments (3)
Man, I need to learn the Greek alphabet - don't want to be falling behind over here!
LOL car dealership. :) I love the whiteboard Latin/Greek. Go Michaela! We're language junkies here, so I'm all for it.
it's amazing how much latin & greek overlap. and yes, clearly you have your work cut out for you ... in the very best way! gotta love a motivated student who loves to learn :-)