Week #9 Review

We did things a little differently this week. A lot more play, and we never did something academic if he said he didn't want to. And we still got through it all! I'm noticing that he'd much rather pull out a book and go through several pages and lessons and then take a break, rather than do one page, switch to a new book, do a page, switch... so we're switching our style a little bit to accommodate that. He's having fun, and that's what's important to me.

To help strengthen his hand muscles we played a game where we spilled a bunch of toothpicks on the ground and had to pick them up with tweezers and put them in a bucket. He thought it was so much fun .

Skating was a little better this week, although still hard. He is still having a hard time adjusting to his new, round-bladed skates. But he felt a little better when his buddy Cole tried to switch to hockey skates and had to switch back. It's hard for him being the only one in the class in hockey skates because he feels like he can't do what the other kids can do, but we keep reminding him that he learned with the other skates and he'll learn with these. He's learning perseverance and his teachers are SO patient with him, so that's been a huge blessing.

Tonight when we were reading his Bible before bed we were facing each other. I was reading and he said, "No, 'The king did everything.'" I had no idea what he was talking about so I kept going. When I got to the second page I realized what he was saying. Each page starts with a phrase in all caps to start it off. The second page had THE KING DID EVERYTHING... as the lead-in to the story. We were facing each other - which means he read it upside down! The kid never ceases to amaze me...

This week's verse was "Let all things be done decently and in order" 1 Corinthians 14:40. Guess I should pay a little more attention to my house if I expect him to respect God's Word... yikes.