Wow! What a month! We’ve had some pretty serious health issues to deal with this month, hence our conspicuous lack of posting!

My oldest was diagnosed with seizure disorder/epilepsy. Fortunately, it appears to be an extremely mild case, and his MRI did not show any abnormalities in terms of tumors or anything like that as the root cause.

My middle child also has a couple of medical conditions that also necessitates several doctor’s visits (one of which has been almost weekly).

As for our homeschooling:

• We took a field trip to the mounted police horse stables (4/4)
• We had a few more sessions of our RADKids class and actually finished up this past Tuesday (4/8)
• My two oldest are in a homeschool choir and their solos were recently assigned. My oldest has also been assigned a coveted hand chimes role!
• Weekly Spanish class for my two youngest
• Lots of reading and writing for my oldest (he’s been doing a lot of e-mailing to new friends who have the same two health conditions that he does)
• My oldest two have been doing a fair amount of knitting with me. My oldest attends the weekly Teen/Tween Knitting Circle I facilitate at my local yarn shop (LYS).
• My oldest joined the Homeschool Kids group on GoodReads!

Included is a picture of the kids with Bob (the RADKids “dummy” for practicing their physical skills) along with their cool instructor, Mr. Anthony!

Today we have a Personal Safety Workshop (RADKids), and then an outside Spanish class this afternoon.

I’m going to try posting a little something each day (okay, at least weekly) about things we’ve done.  We actually do a lot and have so many outside classes that keeping up a blog to chronicle everything is hard. But I want to capture the flavor of all the fun things we do, so I’ll go for quick bursts, rather than long involved details (which I prefer).

Today, Nikko read three full chapters of the Bible (New Century Version); wrote an e-mail to a new friend, and helped his cousin Adam with an air quality assignment. Rene copied her Bible verse several times, and went over her Dolch sight words. Jay traced his name over and over. We made fresh squeezed orange juice for lunch, and still had so many oranges left over that we made fresh fruit popsicles for later.

Has it really been seven months since we’ve written anything? Well, I suppose we’ve been somewhat busy! In that time we:

• Adopted a sibling group of two children
• Took two trips across five states and back each time
• Have gone on field trips like:
  • A professional baseball game
  • The Monterey Bay Aquarium
• Still homeschooling, but with more involved stuff like:
  • 4 hours of Lego Robotics per week in preparation to compete in our first FLL (our first year since outgrowing JFLL)
  • Our first effort at NaNoWriMo (more on that in the next post)
  • BookIt! Reading Program (1 book per child per week)
  • Spanish
  • Chorus
  • Homeschool PE

Sorry we haven’t been writing! We’ve been to busy enjoying the gorgeous weather & doing lots of fun stuff! One fun thing we’ve done is going to a huuuuge trampoline “theatre”. It’s got three “stages” and you can do all sorts of neat stuff!

We’ve been going to a couple of really cool homeschool sports programs … both run by awesome Coach Jeremy!  One rotates various sports: we’ve done soccer, basketball, baseball, football and tennis, just to name a few! The other is pure soccer!

Play on!