Time flies whether you're having fun or not!

Where does time go it flies by so fast these days.  Last week the girls went to Oregon for three days to be in their Aunt Glenda's wedding so while the kids were away grandma played.  Larry and I took a weekday off and toured Chinatown in San Francisco and the other two days I enjoyed a house with all the toys put away!

This week we had to really get into the groove of school.  The girls' have homework Monday through Thursday.  Each day they have nine tasks to complete ranging from having a book read to them, to memorizing and illustrating nursery rhymes.  They are learning to write letters, numbers and words so they practice those things. One assignment last week was to learn your birthday, one was to know your "left".  So we come home from school and spend about an hour doing "schoolwork" and then have lunch.  Now they just have to learn that for all the work we do at home they need to turn it in on Fridays.  Yesterday we went out to Aunt Megan's to play with Audrey and Emily then today we went to a local park that has a water feature~a series of water spouts in the concrete that children can run through, or sit on as the case may be.

We are playing games we haven't seen in this house for many a moon like Go Fish! and Trouble!  Sometimes they both want to play a game and sometimes just one so the dynamics of activities are always changing.  But because they are the same age they seem to pretty much be at the same level so it's so much easier than trying to play with your five year when the three year old wants to play too.