"Watch out Jack!"....

I never thought in a million years that the following words would bring tears to my eyes.
"Watch out, Jack! The monster's coming! Race you!" ............and..........."But Annie had disappeared"
But my friends, that is what happened. When you have a kid who works so hard trying to read, get so frustrated and worked up over reading.. Those words HE read alllllll by himself!!!! .. were music to this moms ears! I just about fell over.. right off the bed and on to the floor.. but I held it together and just bounced up and down a bit. IT was one of those moments I will never forget. ... like when Catherine looked up her first word in the dictionary, or Nathan said "Mom, please go out!" when he was potty training.. what a moment! All i have to say it watch out Magic Tree House .. Here comes Joseph!

Yesterday it rained most of the day .. the kids built a HUGE tent in the den and then spent the rest of the day reading, or playing inside it. Kaleb it reading Treasure Island.. as well as Catherine. Nathan and Joseph both are reading some poems from "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and they love it.

Our History is moving along, yesterday we read the story of Cleopatra and Ceasar (of course a WAY toned down version).. We learned "Vini, Vidi, Vici" .. in Latin, from the history lesson..

For Science we learned more about comets and astroids, about Haleys comet, and about Meteors. The kids seem to really like the section where it talked about a 60 ton meteoite. Of course then they wanted to know how much a ton was.. I did a quick search and found a ton is 2000 lbs.

We have also be doing a Bible lesson .. I have been reading a page from my "Devotionals for Children" they are short and to the point and the kids seemed to like it.

Its been a good week. I look forward to finishing our history.. and I think I might have to throw a party for us when we do.. ! We'll see.