Livy woke up about an hour before me, ate some breakfast, and played quietly (relatively) in her room. After I got up, I headed off to work. She watched a movie (Max and Ruby), did some elaborate imaginative play with some empty boxes and two jump ropes, and got dressed.
When I got home, we went to lunch with Aaron at Ruby Tuesday's before he left for work. While Aaron and I chatted, Livy did a word search on her menu.
After lunch, she and I came home and played two games of Jr. Labyrinth (a rocking good game, by the way). We are definitely going to invest in the adult version soon, cause she has figured it out and could handle more, I think. The game is basically a maze that keeps moving around, and you have to move through it, using strategy, to get to several different goals.
Then, she read two Bob Books out loud to me. They are very simple phonetic (almost completely) stories. Then, we pulled out some flash cards that have a word on the front and a picture on the back, and she read them to me. We flipped them over dramatically to see if she was right.
About halfway through, she started crying and told me that Morgan (2nd child of Jenn) is a better reader than she is. Well, it's true. Though Morgan is 18 months younger, she is a far better reader. So, we talked about how different people learn different things at different times. I told her some differences of when her dad and I learned different skills. And I pointed out some things I thought she was best at. Eventually, she said she felt better.
Next, she pogo sticked in the living room. I think she chose this activity because physical activity is her comfort zone. She is super coordinated and has no trouble learning any physical skill. So, I think she chose pogo sticking because it made her feel confident again.
After I played on the internet and tried to ignore the sounds of crashing and hysterical laughter from the living room, we went to pick up our super wonderful raw milk from our super wonderful local farmer. On the way there and back, Livy did 5 pages from a math workbook on place value. We are total car-schoolers. Something about driving in the car (perhaps the inability to do anything physical?) makes Livy want to do math. She has learned almost every bit of math she knows (addition, subtraction, reading a clock, counting money, and now place value) in the car. About 50% of it was on our road trip. We also sometimes do math at the library, cause she sees the older kids doing their homework, and she thinks its cool to sit at the little tables and work like they do.
When we got home, we went out to the backyard and jumped on the trampoline for about 45 minutes. It nearly killed me (but it was fun), while she thought it was a light and enjoyable stretch of her muscles. :) We challenged each other to do x number of tuck jumps, seat drops, etc. We both worked on our front flips. Mine is pretty reliable, though I sometimes fall on my butt at the end; Livy is just learning. Then, we swept the leaves and sticks off the trampoline. Maybe we should have done that first, so they didn't poke us in the rear while doing seat drops.
After we came in and I obsessively checked my twitter feed, I worked for about an hour and a half on my French, while Livy watched more Max and Ruby, played her keyboard, cleaned her room (unbidden), and organized all her boxes and tables into a lizard (plastic) habitat (including a lizard exercise arena, a lizard shop (where lizards go to shop, not a shop selling lizards), and a lizard bedroom (to be shared with frogs and snakes).
Finally, I took her to meet up with her dad, since Thursday night is when she heads over to his house for the weekend. My plans for tonight are to work more on French, read some of Howard's End and some Guns, Germs, and Steel, and take a bath (with, though sadly not in, wine).
The end.
