| | I sold $70 worth of books and curriculum I had lying around so, woohoo! Not too bad for clearing out a box in my office. There are still a few things left - see previous post. I used some of the money to buy a lovely felted wall hanging from the equally lovely juliepersons - it's the one with the red-dress and the blue robin's eggs in the nest posted here.
I bought it for Lilli for her new room and she loves the colors, the eggs, the dress, all of it :)
As I posted on my other blog, we lost our beloved 16-year-old cat yesterday. Obviously (since they are only 5 and 9), the kids had known him all of their lives. They cried when he was not looking so good a few days back and I had to take him to the vet - before we knew he wouldn't come back. But I guess since they had a few days after that to get used to the idea of him being gone, they took it very well yesterday when I brought home the remains and we had our little funeral here on the property. Lilli even told me, "I'm very brave. Sometimes." She was a little upset last night at bedtime because she didn't have her Moses to sleep with - he loved sleeping on an extra pillow, right up at her head.
Otherwise, they have had a busy busy week, as usual. Miles has still been doing the state testing, although they're done now. He didn't seem too concerned one way or the other about it - he said it went fine. He's really proud of himself lately for participating more in P.E. and learning how to play baseball and kick ball. He even asked if we could buy a bat and ball to practice at home! I saw his teacher and she said his attitude has improved 100% and he's really trying at sports now, whereas previously he was against trying anything new and would freak out if he couldn't do it right away. I think he finally realized that everybody is on a learning curve, and that it's o.k. to just have fun and not have to master the sport.
He has no more homework for the rest of the school year (3 more weeks) - except to create a big California history project/report. I am trying to help him with that - he is doing his report on California's military role during WWII, which pleases me immensely because he was able to choose a topic of real interest to him. Some of you may remember his WWII obsession as I blogged about it last year - including his birthday trip to the U.S.S. Hornet aircraft carrier. So when he got this California assignment the first thing he thought was doing a report on the Hornet and WWII - and that's kind of been expanded to California's general role in the war with the other naval bases, etc. He's doing a model of an aircraft carrier for his presentation, and then he has to write up a 1-3 page essay. He already has several books and did some internet research at school, so I think he has plenty of material. Personally, I have to admit I was looking forward to maybe doing a model of a Spanish mission this year! But it is pricelss to see him self-motivated on this one and excited to apply his knowledge and interest in WWII to an official school assignment. And he has promised me that we can do a mission model together at home if I really really want to 
This reminds me - sometimes he thinks I'm doing all of this for myself - and maybe I am! For example, on Thursday I set up my board games tables during the 4th-6th grade recess as usual. I've been doing this every week and still have 10-12 kids gather around and two boys in particular who come *running* to play Stratego. Anyway, every week I've been there Miles sits and plays games with the other kids and I was happy that he wanted to do this, although of course I never said he HAD to hang out there with me. Well, yesterday, he comes over and says, "Tiff, is it o.k. if I don't play games today? I promise I will play a game with you later at home." Of course, I said, and he ran off with some other kids to the playground. I thought it was cute and funny that he thought I would be disappointed if he wasn't playing games and that he had to make it up to me later 
Lilli's class had a field trip to a farm on Tuesday and I was a chaperone/driver. She saw bunnies, pet horses, fed goats and chickens, had a wagon ride, and learned how to plant corn. It was a bit of a rushed trip because the farm was quite a drive away, and because Kindergarten is only a 3-hour day. But she had fun, as usual :)
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