He thinks we're just fishing....

Anthony and I seemed to have started a tradition.  For the 3rd night in a row, we've watched Jeopardy together.  I love how his mind is always working.  He loves to have fun, but he loves to learn too.  He's been that way since he was little.  He doesn't know it, but Monday we stumbled across our new Mommy and Anthony time.  I remember watching Jeopardy with my mom as a kid.  It wasn't a planned thing, and I doubt it was often.  But I remember being amazed at how many answers she knew.  I wonder what Anthony thinks of this time together. It's teachers semi finals week. The questions are pretty hard.  Yesterday I knew all five in one of the categories.  Of course the category was gemstones and the answers just happened to be all three of my kids gemstones and my own, plus January's garnet.  Anthony has gotten a few right so far and a some that he didn't, the names and places sound familiar to him, especially the history category.  Tonight there were math questions.  We paused the show with the question on the tv screen so we had more time to figure out the answer.  One was add 1,031 to the year of the first moon landing.  I took this as a learning opportunity.  I taught Anthony how to "google" the answer and then he took a pencil and notebook and did the math to figure out the answer.  One of the questions was a fraction.  What is 1/4 plus 5/12.  The answer is 2/3 by the way.  (Or 8/12)  Anthony had trouble with that one.  One was to add 64 to the number of president Abraham Lincoln was.  Again, we paused the show and went to the computer to "google" a list of presidents to see which president Lincoln was.  Anthony's so funny.  The answer to the question was 100.  Anthony did the math and had the correct answer written down, but couldn't read his own writing and hollered "106" at the tv.  Anthony has no idea that this is and hopefully will continue to be our special time together.  Not only is it time we can spend together just the two of us, but it's also a chance for us bother to learn....

*kids, the title of this post might not make sense to you when you read this, but a country singer named Trace Adkins sings a song called, "She thinks we're just fishing," about spending quality time with his daughter and making memories without her realizing that their time together is special.

Tuesday Aunt Kim and I went to McKay's bookstore.  I found a Star Wars game in the free bin and brought it home for Anthony with the hope that it worked.  I got 3 or 4 random, just because hugs from him yesterday.  He said he loves his new game is so happy I got it for him. He said it's very similar to the "Age of Emipres" game Aunt Kim loaned him last month. I guess one boys trash really is another boys treasure. 

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Emily finally got to go back to school today.  She missed so much time.  First she spent two nights throwing up and now she has a cold with a runny nose.  Normally I wouldn't let her stay home for a cold but she was so miserable.  She was happy to be back.  I asked her who she thought missed her the most while she was gone.  She said Ms. Rachel.  She may be right.  Ms. Rachel loves Emily. 

Emily liked her Stitch picture that was in her lunch box today.  After I had already made her Stitch picture last night, she made another request.  A couple days ago she asked me to make her a beach ball.  She said beach balls had triangles.  I drew her a few and she colored them in.  She asked for another beach ball picture for her lunch.  This was by far the easiest lunch box picture so far.

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Aubrey is getting so big so fast.  She has a cold too and she doesn't like it.  She's pleasant most of the time and she's dealing with it.  She also has new teeth.  There's two new molars on top.  So now she has two teeth on the bottom and six up top. 

She learns so fast.  Every night at dinner we say a silent prayer.  I tell the kids to say their prayers.  Usually Aubrey just watches us and smiles, a couple times last week she put her hands together really quick.  Today when I sat her in her chair for lunch,  I put her plate down on her tray.  She put her head down, put her hands together for just a second and then reached for her fork.  It was the cutest thing. At least there is one thing she's learning by example from her brother and sister that is good.  ;)