I love Wednesdays because we have nothing scheduled, and I really try to not go anywhere so we can savor the time at home. Somehow everything seems to go better: we were ready for school well before 8 a.m., where on normal days, we're scrambling to get out of the house at 8 a.m. Anyway, after 90 minutes of school we went outside to play.
The first thing Lukas does during morning play time is run laps around our yard. I started him doing this about a month ago after I realized he was quite winded after the laps that they run for warm up at
Taekwondo. Now he can keep up with the other kids, and the most impressive thing (to me) was that when his breath strength was measured at the allergist's office yesterday, he
finally had the expected breath strength for his weight (all other previous visits for the past two or three years, he couldn't blow the thingy hard enough for his weight). I think this is completely related to him running almost every day! Lukas is not an athletic kid, so he doesn't naturally want to run and jump to burn off energy. But he's starting to enjoy more athletic activities this year (and trying to shoot hoops at school and after church!) so that's exciting for me. The allergies are still an issue though!
Natalie and Konrad took turns on the swing (they're getting the hang of taking turns, and still don't always do it nicely, but we're making progress!) and then Lukas asked if he could do school at the desk in the garage. The desk is a freebie we got from his school, and we still haven't figured out where or if we can put it in the house, so it's in the garage. I asked if he wanted to do another math page and he said yes, so school moved to the garage (I'm trying to get ahead of his curriculum before the baby comes, so if we need to skip a few days in April and May, he won't be behind).
Then Konrad wanted to join him, and Natalie too! The garage is
not conducive to school, but it was a fun experiment.
I love Wednesdays because we have nothing scheduled, and I really try to not go anywhere so we can savor the time at home. Somehow everything seems to go better: we were ready for school well before 8 a.m., where on normal days, we're scrambling to get out of the house at 8 a.m. Anyway, after 90 minutes of school we went outside to play.
The first thing Lukas does during morning play time is run laps around our yard. I started him doing this about a month ago after I realized he was quite winded after the laps that they run for warm up at Taekwondo. Now he can keep up with the other kids, and the most impressive thing (to me) was that when his breath strength was measured at the allergist's office yesterday, he finally had the expected breath strength for his weight (all other previous visits for the past two or three years, he couldn't blow the thingy hard enough for his weight). I think this is completely related to him running almost every day! Lukas is not an athletic kid, so he doesn't naturally want to run and jump to burn off energy. But he's starting to enjoy more athletic activities this year (and trying to shoot hoops at school and after church!) so that's exciting for me. The allergies are still an issue though!
Natalie and Konrad took turns on the swing (they're getting the hang of taking turns, and still don't always do it nicely, but we're making progress!) and then Lukas asked if he could do school at the desk in the garage. The desk is a freebie we got from his school, and we still haven't figured out where or if we can put it in the house, so it's in the garage. I asked if he wanted to do another math page and he said yes, so school moved to the garage (I'm trying to get ahead of his curriculum before the baby comes, so if we need to skip a few days in April and May, he won't be behind).
2 comments:
sounds like a great day! i really enjoy reading your blog! i havnt commented in a while but i wanted to let you know that i do read your post:)
What a great Wednesday!
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