Photo by Lydia Duffy 

Lovebugs

They live for two days and copulate in flight for 16 hours. I'm in Albany, GA and they are everwhere. Plague-like and eerie.

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/misc/lovebug.htm

Jake and Matt -- enjoying the boating life.  

Taking the new boat to the river. She's a beauty.  

Vocab update

vocabulary words of the week:
as had sit six ran

5 sentences:

She is as pritty as a rose.
You had one cat.
You had to sit.
You had six cats.
A pup ran away.

Homework

Dr. Suess would be proud.
5 sentences using this week's vocabulary words: can pan man cat sat.

1. The man is fat.
2. You can play.
3. You can cook wivth [sic] a pan.
4. The cat sat.
5. You sat.

Kid language

Kid language 1: Upon getting out of the bathtub last night, Jake said, "Where's Aunt Nicole?". I replied, "In Pennsylvania." "No!" said Jake, pointing to the tub water going down the drain. "Where's the Aunt Nicole?"

Ahhhh. I finally got it. "It's a tornado. Here it comes now."

Kid language 2: "Mommy, do you know this song?" asked Lydia. "Bum, bum, bum, bum.... I learned it today in music." (blank stare) "It's Unity 5" (blank stare) "By the Big B."

Ahhh. I finally got it. "Beethoven's Symphony Number 5?" I asked. "That's what I said!!!" Lydia replied, disgusted.

Matt's Back

The real blogger of the family is back in action. My stint as a guest blogger was acceptable, but not steller. If you measure by quantity of posts, my record is 3 posts in 4 days. Since yesterday afternoon (that would be less than 24 hours), Matt has posted 6 times. He's 800 percent more prolific than I am.

1st grade homework

Lydia has homework. Each night there is something and each week it's the same.

Monday: Take five words and practice writing
Tuesday: Take same five words and write a sentence each
Wednesday: Read chapter from reading-level appropriate book
Thursday: Math worksheet

I'm uninspired, but she seems to enjoy it. Here's a sampling of the last two weeks of Tuesday night homework, which definitely affirms the genius of Dr. Suess.

Words: an, at, and, am, a

I see an apple.
At the circus I saw an elephant.
Cat and dog play.
I am my own self.
Hi, I'm a hippo.

Words: in, is, it, big, did

Is Ann in hre [sic] house?
Is the tiger a boy?
It is a boy.
The dog is big.
Did the cat get fat?