Not much to report... again...

Though we did go to a carnival last Thursday, and the beach yesterday!

The carnival was probably one of the smallest I have ever seen. Both kids loved the carousel, and the car-go-round, and C.O. loved the little roller coaster also - though he was really freaked out when it started (I rode it with him). By the end of the second pass, he was a roller-coaster champ! He immediately insisted that his dad ride it with him, which M did, while I took C.J. on the carousel again.

The beach yesterday was one of those spur-of-the-moment trips, and we were only there about an hour, long enough to walk up and down by the water's edge, collect some shells and beach glass, check out various forms of seaweed, and make plans to go again as soon as the weather is nice. It was a different beach than we usually go to, and the sand is perfect for building sandcastles, so we've got to load up all our shovels, buckets, and so forth. C.O. and C.J. did have a bit of an accident - they ran full force into each other, hard enough to fall down, and C.O. bruised and split his lip on one side. He looks like someone punched him! Which I guess is close enough to the truth, if you look at it as C.J. punching him with her head! Poor boy - he hates the sight of his own blood.

C.O. is moving well through math, and has finished a unit in his language arts book. I plan to have him finish up Maps, Graphs, Globes and HWOT this week! C.J. is, at the moment, working on matching uppercase to lowercase letters (just A-E). She's making great progress with letter identification, beginning sounds, and basic math! We never got to our science project last week - life has a way of getting in the way - so we're starting it today. The guy at Trader Joe's was nice enough to give us a few balloons for the banana-gas project, in case the first one doesn't work. C.O. also helped me comparison-shop while we were there! We're working on learning about recycling/conservation, and the kids want to donate money to a local environmental group for Earth Day, so we are saving all our change for that. C.O. and C.J. have offered to help with our household recycling. Our apartment manager called the disposal company this last week, and they delivered a recycling dumpster for the entire complex to use, which is great, so we figure we'll set up a tub, and whenever it gets full, we'll wheel it down in our red wagon. C.O. is demanding the rights to pull the wagon, which is fine with me.