We had a new addition this weekend.  Not a baby yet but a new (to us) minivan.  That's right, we (and by 'we' I mean mostly 'me') are officially minivan drivers.  It's a rather painful experience but the good news is now when the baby does get here we have space in the car to actually bring her home so I guess that makes it worth it!

It was beautiful this weekend (when is it ever in the 50s in January!?!) so we spent a lot of time outside.  Steven started the baby's bookcase and it looks beautiful!  It is still in the process of being painted but pictures will follow when it's finished.  The boys helped me clean the double stroller and put it in the back of the car.

This morning Gavin worked on marking vowels either short or long in words he was reading.

Then he wrote capital cursive letter 'T'.

In math we reviewed nickel and penny values and answered word problems with money.  We figured out if the word problem gave us a whole and a part or two parts and filled in our chart accordingly.

Then we practiced dividing the number 10 into parts; 0+10, 1+9, 2+8, etc.

Then we played a matching game trying to find two numbers that equal 10.

We didn't have time for any activities in history today but we did read a picture couple books about George Washington and a book that gives basic info about the American Revolution.

This is a really fun book about how George Washington found a stray dog on the battlefield after a battle that turned out to be British General William Howe's dog.  George returned the dog to General Howe even though they were enemies.

We finished Ivanhoe and tonight we are starting this book about another knight:

This is the second book of the series.  We read the first one and it is mostly silly but Gavin thought it was funny so he got the second and third in the series for his birthday.  I'm guessing we'll be reading book number three when we finish this book.