Keeping busy despite the snow

It feels like we've had a lot of time with Aria home these past few weeks because of school closures due to snow.  This past week, school was closed on Monday and Wednesday and on Tuesday she said that her ear and tummy hurt, so she didn't go to school either.  It's been fun to have more time together.  We spent one afternoon making valentine sugar cookies.  I've been thinking a lot about homeschooling for next year, and even got all of the paperwork together to possibly finish this year with homeschooling, but Dane felt it was best for Aria to finish the year with her friends and teacher, and I think he is probably right. 

 If we decide to home-school, I still have a lot of planning and reading to do in order to make sure we are prepared before we begin.

Aria had to create a project using 100 of a particular object.  We decided to use 100 crayons.  Aria counted out all 100 crayons, then we glued them to this gigantic poster board and used a blow dryer to melt them.  It looked pretty cool.  Unfortunately, wax particles blew out beyond the poster board and my board beneath and it was a bit of a mess to clean up.

Zade continues to build new creations every day with his blocks.  He doesn't like to take them apart at the end of the day, so to help encourage him, I try to take pictures of each creation, so that we can remember what they looked like.