Nothing really new- except that I know now that Genghis Khan was capturing Peking in China and pushing his empire from the Yellow Sea to the Mediterranean at the same time that King John of England (like the Robin Hood Prince John ;) was signing the Magna Charta in England and the Crusades were finally wrapping up in the Near East. Fascinating, huh?
Anyway, we haven't done most of our crafts or projects yet, but we have been reading, reading, reading. We'll be putting Japan on our salt dough map today. Yesterday we painted the ocean and drew the outline. She'll probably work on three botany projects this weekend and next week because I didn't thoroughly read the lesson this week. That's ok because she likes science and they're all easy and one's short term, one's long term, and one will take about a week or two. We're still working on our costumes little by little, and even the boys are having fun. They all listened to the stories of Marco Polo and Genghis Khan, the conquering Mongols, Kublai Khan, Japenese damyos and samurai, the Yamato dynasty in Japan, the Tang in China, and then the Ming and the Forbidden City. Boys love battles, weapons, and warriors. Surprisingly they also love gardens, poems, mountains, and deserts. Those have also all been part of our schooling this week.
The new bathroom hasn't advanced at all, but today is grocery day and I'm sooo glad. I had four cups of oatmeal left for breakfast and after the kids ate there wasn't any left. So I though I'd have an avocado (the last). While I was changing Lizzy's diaper Asher squeezed it. It was ruined. I am hungry still, and I'm trying to think of how to sneak the last tortilla and the last bit of beans without anyone seeing. Since it's 10:30, I may as well just wait for lunch ;) I suppose I can afford to skip a meal now and then.