Wednesday..

So I'm a lousy Homeschooling Mom today. We are totally not doing anything really book related, but just enough "other" stuff that I can sort of, kinda, justify if as "School". We played Banangrams for spelling for instance. T2 is actually getting to the point where he can play. He knows a LOT of words now. I had the kids help me clean out the frog, gerbil, and fish tanks and we talked about the animal health and how we have to do certain things to keep them healthy. I pronounced this science. We did laundry, dishes, swept, and general toy tiding and well.. You gotta lean how to these things efficiently. Practice makes perfect. We are going to go to Texas in a few days on a wee few days trip and I'm going to have them look at the map and show them the route we'll take and plot out our stops with the places they want to stop. Legoland, the American Girl Store, Great Wolf Lodge, C wants to go to Fry's.. Look at those map skills they'll learn..

We did do a few pages in our math books, mostly because the girl is having issues with the section she's in and I want her to keep pushing through now that she's finally gotten the concept she was having issues with. I also don't want to hear "But I don't WANNNNNNNAAA. We didn't Yeeeessterdaaaaay." Tomorrow.

While we were cleaning the frog cage (which is more difficult that it may seem BTW), I got a call from T1's occupational therapist. I'm a little fuzzy on the details, but she said that she wants to do some testing with her next week because her boss - the actual therapist who designs the the therapy program for each child- was reviewing her last results and saw something she wants to test for. Something visual processing? She's going to call me back her in a little bit with scheduling information - which is unfortunately going to probably be the same afternoon we get back, but *shrug* we live wild like that.

The other interesting kink in our plans is T2 is going for an MRI tomorrow and then to a pediatric neurologist Friday. His head has been hurting for several weeks and he's had a round of antibiotics (the regular ped thinking it was a sinus infection) with no relief. He's already on atenolol for migraines - which has helped enormously. BUT. They came back. Sooo he's being sent to a specialist now. Poor little fella. 10 sinus surgeries and a pediatric neurologist. :(  Not to mention  his head hurting all the time.