Let’s see what happened this summer. My mom went in for emergency double bypass heart surgery, it went very well. She just got the all clear from her cardiologist and doesn’t have to go back for another year.
My dad went to the hospital after my mom and I nagged him to go get treatment for what seemed to be kidney stones. Good thing he listened and went in, the pain he was feeling was actually a blood clot in his right lung. He is also doing very well. He will be taking blood thinners for the next 6 months, but fine otherwise.
The girls have been trucking along in their schoolwork and have moved on to a few new classes. Tori is now taking Intermediate Algebra at Polk State College. For FLVS, she just started the second semesters of her World and American history classes. Beth has moved on from Algebra I to Geometry. She’s feeling more confident in her math skills now. She finished Language Arts 3 (8th grade English) and is now taking Earth/Space Science. Lili has just finished Personal Fitness and is also taking Earth/Space Science, with a different teacher. She will finish Spanish I in just a couple of weeks and will move on to Spanish II. Evie took and just completed her first FLVS class- Keyboarding and started in Art 2D this week.
We’ve had a gopher tortoise adopt us. We don’t know how he got into our yard, possibly through a hole under the shed. He travels through the yard, eating weeds, dog poop and the occasional flower. He’s really curious and bangs his shell on our doors to the screen room. If we open the door to look at him, he walks right in. He does laps through the house then walks back to the doors to be let out. We haven’t named him and don’t feed him. We try not to interfere unless he decides he wants to stay in the house for longer than we think he needs to, in that case we just take him back out to the back yard. He isn’t scared of the dogs and they aren’t interested in him, they mostly ignore each other. If the dogs come too close or walk by too fast, he will bang his shell on the ground and hiss. It’s pretty cool to watch him trek around, he’s really fast and his back legs look like elephant feet.
Videos of the tortoise
When we first discovered him in the yard.
A couple weeks later.
Our extracurricular events have started again. PE started last week, though we won’t start until October 6th, waiting for temps to drop a little more. We just had our second Lighthouse Teachers’ Meeting this week. This is the large field trip planning and sign up meeting held once a month. The year is off to a great start with lots of fun field trips planned. We’ve already been to a field trip to the art museum and had a pool social today. I hung out with the moms in the shade and still got sunburnt. We had the first Jr Lit Club meeting last month and will have the first Lit Club meeting next week. Evie still participates in the Jr group; it is for kids in 3rd through 5th grade. The other girls are in Lit Club, the group I lead, which is for 6th grade and up. Phil is off with the girls today and tomorrow, so I’ll be working on the personal economics class I will be teaching-virtually-to a group of the older kids in our homeschool group.
A few pictures from the teachers's meeting and pool social.
Evie is a little strange
a lot of the time.
Lili looks a little overheated.
Beth and Tori don't play chess.
Evie's first diving board jump.
Evie's first jump from Melissa B on Vimeo.
Lili walks on water.
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