Wednesday, December 13, 2006

-The girls helped fold and hang laundry.
-Astrid laid around under the Christmas tree day dreaming.
-We baked chocolate mint sandwich cookies for the cookie exchange tomorrow at PEG.
-The girls helped make noodles and beans for lunch.
-We talked about animals that eat bugs. I told the girls, to their great surprise, that some people also eat bugs. Astrid wondered what happened to them after ingesting such things.
-Astrid played with virtual paper dolls on the computer.
-We found a bag full of circles cut out of old Christmas cards, which I think came from my mom's and were intended to be used for some sort of craft. Astrid sorted them all out and then had me write a list of things which appeared in the pictures for her to sound out. I listed 15 words. She made it through the first ten before getting frustrated and quitting.
-Muirgen played with Ello (a building system that inolves stacking shapes with holes in them on little poles), the train track set, and her babies and stroller.
-Astrid sorted the hair accessories and put as many of them as she could in her hair (about 20).
-She looked at library books.
-We went through all the papers containing work and pictures the girls have done and organized them in binders.
-The girls helped make macaroni and cheese and steamed broccoli for supper.
-We read a couple story books, as well as a story from the Prince and Princesses book.