Since Monday...

It's been a so-so week. Right now both kids have miserable colds, so we missed out on yesterday's park day & today's playdate. We did make it to the library briefly yesterday, to return the one-week holiday books & to quickly get more. I also got a few "new" books in the mail this week: the Usbourne Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Natural World; Eyewitness Insects; & the Kingfisher History Encyclopedia, which is a pretty darn cool book!
 
As far as education this week, C.O. has been going like crazy through HWOT, and C.J. is starting to realize that she too can write letters, so during lessons I make sure she has her Magna-doodle at hand for practice. It's different with her because she's left-handed, unlike anyone else in the family, though I think my sister may have been left-handed until kindergarten when her teachers began making her use her right hand. I just tilt the paper/whatever the opposite way for C.J. than I do for myself, & it seems to be working well. In math, C.O. did his first whole page of straight addition problems, and got them all right! He's really proud of that page, which is now in a place of honor on the fridge door. He also got back into Maps, Graphs, Globes this week, working on the four directions (North, West, East, South and Top, Bottom, Left, Right). We also started work on some holiday books from Enchanted Garden - C.O.'s involves copywork & coloring, C.J.'s is just coloring.
 
We'll probably do a little in schoolwork today. I plan on reading "The Nutcracker" to them again in preparation for going to the ballet later this month, and C.O. wants to do another page of straight math problems. Other than that, we'll just take it easy today, so my poor little sick babies can get better quickly!
 
HAD TO EDIT TO ADD:
C.O. just lost his first tooth about an hour ago! It's been very loose and wobbly for a couple of weeks, and so today out it came! He's very excited that the tooth fairy will come tonight!