Too Cool fer School

Lucas' first attempt at spelling each number and saying them aloud

 We had a few rough days at 'school' this week, as neither they or myself had patience. But we persevered and are chugging along. We are more than halfway through the curriculum books already, but I am more focused on getting them familiarized with colors, numbers, shapes, letters and phonics. Lucas has begun spelling some words and his writing is very clean. I almost think his legible writing compensates for his somewhat troubling speech, but that has also improved. He writes all his words very clearly, and his spelling of all his colors and numbers is excellent---but for a few letters he gets stuck on. Like "H"--when that happens we watch a youtube video, and he learns much quicker--example:

They are both doing great at shapes, and love to say 'trapezoid!' (who doesn't?) Lucas can tell you how many corners each shape has, and which shapes only have curved lines or straight lines, as well as which letters have straight, curved or both. 

   Our stupid printer has run out of cyan ink, and the slumlords at HP have made it so you can't print anything if you're out of any given color. All I really need is black ink, and it won't let me print just black or grayscale. Jerks. The kids were almost done making their favorite "Itsy Bitsy Letter Books", so I had to just draw their letter sheets to color for fun. They also are almost through all the worksheets in the preschool book. 

 Olivia's drawing of Lucas, herself, Susan and Norman (mom & dad were on back)

 See how clear Lucas' writing is?

The other fun thing we do is at night we turn on the red light for Nicodemus, as I guess it simulates a softer light like the moon (I don't think they see red?). He is nocturnal and becomes very active then. I played a soundclip of a happy white's tree frog singing, and Nico responded! He jumped all around the cage looking for his "friend" and croaked a little for me. The next morning he was found hiding (their favorite thing to do during the day, besides sleep) under the driftwood I just bought for it---and he had turned a brownish purple! They change colors according to temperature, mood, and sometimes to camouflage (which I think it was, in blending in to the dark wood underneath in the water). I took him out on my hand and he tucks his little legs under himself for warmth and turned green again :) 

Can you find him in the pic above?

Listen to him sing...so cute. never been an animal lover, but I got a thing for Nicodemus. :)