I made a conscious effort to greatly reduce the amount of TV the kids (and I ) watch now that Foxtrot doesn't take so much time. The amount of time they watch has been slowly increasing since Echo was born
Once I got up (and their show "Super Why" was done - dad had turned it on for them...) We had violin practice with Delta. We haven't in probably almost a month - so he did NOT want to co-operate. He got told that he wasn't doing anything until he had done that (and we had swim lessons not much later in the day...). Fortunately he decided to do it. (I was going to put the baby gate up across his room (which so far he has never climbed - but we don't use it anymore either...) - but he decided to do the practice before I got it out.... and the waiting time was used getting things ready for swim lessons. We didn't do a lot for the practice, mainly some basic stuff.
Swim lessons were next, and a bit of time playing at the Y. Then it was home for lunch (and 1 more show...)
Then let's see.... they played on the organ some, and we also got out their other musical instruments and played a bunch. (maracas, tamborines, etc).
We had a math lesson
I made up a simple word search puzzle - Delta did GREAT. He found a lot of them with no help, and the last few with a little help. Echo didn't get the idea, but I didn't really expect her to - she coloured instead.
They also played with that mosaic pegboard I bought - Echo just puts the pegs in anywhere - but Delta filled in a rectangle shape with different colours. And of course, it is great sorting practice as I make them sort it when putting it away.
And tonight I read the Alladin story from the Childcraft set. Sometimes I don't know if Delta is really listening to these longer stories (Echo doesn't) - but I think he gets something out of them.
Overall - a lot done!
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