Jonathan was a satan child this morning. He woke up fine, but when it came time to eat breakfast, he fell apart and refused to eat. Have no idea what triggered it, but I'm suspecting that he's used to watching a little TV while he eats and we can't really do that now.
We have entered Phase I of the kitchen remodel!!! The dumpster has arrived and is taking up our entire driveway. The kitchen and the keeping room are totally cleaned out. Contractor disconnected gas and water. He started to pull apart the hutch to reassemble it in the dining room. I am expecting a delivery of building materials later today. Demo starts at 9am tomorrow!!!
From Elise's school:
Today we started learning about animals that live in the ocean. The OCTOPUS was first on our list. X told us that there is another animal like an octopus, but it's called a squid. X told us that an octopus has 8 legs, called tentacles. X shared a really cool fact - "If you cut off an octopus tentacle it will grow back, but if you cut off a people arm, it will never grow back." X was eager to use the spray bottle to paint the ocean for her octopus and did a great job. X thought we should move on to starfish. We wanted to find out how many legs starfish have, so we found a picture and counted - 5! X paid close attention in Chinese and was rewarded with the granting of his request - the bunny song. X made some clever constructions with the "bits and pieces", including a capital and lower case A for her name. Elise made a modern design with the math cubes, a set of stairs in a cool black and white pattern. X used some great manners to ask for more bread at lunch, starting with, "Excuse me please, Ms. Stacy..." I was impressed.
I made a killer rice, chicken, carrots/peas mix in the wok tonight. I got red (or maybe black) rice, so the chicken sort of turned red too, which made the meal that much more interesting. We are officially all paper and plastic (sorry, my green friends). I need to find lots of wok recipes; it was really easy to cook and clean up!
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