We've Been Here a Month

It is hard to believe that we’ve been here one month already.  I think homesickness has kicked in a little harder this week, because the boys were really missing their grandparents as well as their friends.  It’s been made tougher because we haven’t found a church home yet with which to get connected.  Hopefully Josiah’s homeschool group will provide some much needed connections with other families. 

The first church we visited, we liked a lot, but they have a few things doctrinally that we disagree with and so we continue to look.  However, in the meantime the boys are going to their Wednesday night program called “Music & More.”  The kids get to play different instruments as well as sing, do sign language, etc.  It sounded fun.  When I told Josiah about it and how he may get to pick an instrument, his eyes lit up and he said, “I want to play the tuba.”  I think he is going to be the smallest tuba player known to man because he deeply desires to play it.  They did enjoy it, though, and Josiah got to play the maracas while Henry’s group sang. 

We tried another church today, but weren’t crazy about it either.  However, they did have a huge and really cool indoor playground.  It was probably one of the coolest playgrounds I’ve seen and they have weekly hours on it, so we can go during the week, too.  (The church was HUGE to have this sort of thing.)  If they had an adult size version I’d definitely play in it.  The boys had a ton of fun. 

Josiah did want to start school on Monday because the other kids in his Sunday School class were starting Monday.  I hadn't planned on starting until Friday with our CC group, so I came up with a few things to do this week.  One was a science experiment that I saw on facebook, but it was still neat.  I had the boys guess what would happen (Josiah guessed correctly) and draw their observations.

The experiment was supposed to take 30 minutes, but we used big glasses and thick paper towels, so ours took a good 6 hours.  Live and learn.

My love for Starbucks doesn’t go unnoticed with the kids.  As Henry was getting dressed in his pj’s the other night, he came and told me he had on Starbucks underwear.  Yeah, it was Star Wars. 

Caroline is hilarious because her favorite thing to do this week is walk around wearing the Mr. Potato Head glasses.

She has also gotten very good at playing with the big legos.  She gets super frustrated with it at times, but still loves them.  I’m not so sure she’ll get the chance to be a girly girl with two big brothers.  She is also a champion teeth-brusher.  She comes into our bathroom several times a day and points to her toothbrush.  She LOVES to brush.  Actually, she loves to chew on her toothbrush because that’s what she does.

Looking at herself in the mirror.

This week, Josiah and Henry have been watching Busy Town on a station called Qubo.  So, all week they’ve been pretending to be the characters.  Our family has turned into Daddy Cat, Mommy Cat, Huckle (H), Lowly Worm (J), and Sally Baby (C).  I don’t mind the Busy Town show, but I can’t stand the Qubo channel because it has real commercials on it (unlike PBS).  They have a commercial for a product called “Snackers” which is a cup with a straw, with a bowl type thing on top of the cup so you can drink and eat at the same time.  Well, we were getting into the car the other day and Josiah asked to have a snack for the car.  I told him I didn’t have anything for this car ride and he informed me that we needed to get the Snackers so they could drink and eat in the car AND (he informs me), if it drops it won’t spill (just like they say in the commercial).  He also wants to make t-shirts because they have a commercial selling those.

Well, this week we are doing homeschool every day - it's getting real!  Hopefully we'll have good things to report by this time next week.  :)