Slow Days of February

I know we're only half way through, but this has already been one long month of feeling yucky. It feels like we've all had every cold/flu symptom in the book. Hopefully we'll be better soon. In the meantime, we've been making the best of staying home with lots of projects and exploration (and naps).

We did enjoy a little calm in our family's storm of illnesses with homeschool preschool this week. We hadn't met in several weeks, mainly due to runny noses among all the kids. It actually felt pretty remarkable to get through five months of preschool without a sick day. I think that's impressive for six little ones.

This week we learned about community workers (thus Ryan's fireman costume) and made Valentine's Day cookies. With Ryan in costume, Lucie wanted to dress up too and opted for her ballerina skirt with a wizard hat. We had an interesting discussion about how wizards qualified as "community workers", and decided that their magic kept us all safe.

The kids loved baking cookies. They all did great rolling out dough, using cookie cutters, and decorating with much gusto. The only thing they had trouble with was waiting for the cookies to bake. Ten minutes seemed like an eternity.

In other adventures this week, Lucie happily went to art class all by herself. Ryan decided that he was still too sick to go, and preferred to hang out with me instead. But, after missing class for two weeks, Lucie was ready and waiting to go. She walked right into the classroom and didn't look back. It was the first time she did something entirely on her own, without Ryan or a parent. I could tell that this was important to her, and she did great! I was so proud of her bravery and independence.