Catching up

Just another post of random pictures.  Molly and I have made incredible progress in the hair department (though this picture is not my best effort).  Shortly after an earlier post detailing my lack of ability, I succeeded in putting her hair into to somewhat neat pigtails.  For the most part, I've been able to keep her halfway presentable.

My dad returned from Germany at the beginning of August and brought all of us FC Bayern Munchen shirts. I believe other members of the family received similar souvenirs, but I will go out on a limb and state that our family was the most excited seeing as we followed this team's run to the Champion's League final game.  (Did I get that right, Eric?).  I spent an enjoyable afternoon in the ER watching them lose during the penalty kick portion.  Dom was actually in tears about it, poor kid.  So, yeah, we were really excited to get matching shirts and we wear them proudly.  (Though Dom is still hoping for a German National Jersey)

Dom started soccer at the beginning of soccer and we are all very happy with his progress.  He has a couple of really great coaches and a wonderful team of happy kids.  He's scored in every game so far.

A closeup of Molly.  As much as she can drive me crazy, sometimes looking at her will take my breath away.  Lately, she is trying harder and harder to communicate with us.  She will look at you so seriously and jabber away about something.  I really wish I knew what she was talking about, as I feel my responses are almost always inadequate.

Along with soccer, Dom is making great progress in riding his two-wheeler.  After some really frustrating days, I was wondering if we had maybe made a mistake in foregoing the training wheel phase, but then one morning, he just balanced on his own.  I'm sure it helped his grandpa was here and he wanted to impress him.

Naturally, Will figured he should be able to do anything his brother can do. He isn't quite ready for a two-wheeler, yet, but stay tuned.  I'm sure it won't be long!

Let's see...in other news, Homeschool is going extremely well.  Dom has a great attitude about it which keeps me disciplined about it.

Molly is a little bit of a problem in the classroom, but I can generally distract her with shiny objects.  As in, I let her put coins in a bank.  If that fails, she gets relegated to the crib.

William has shown a great interest in math.  He sort of does his own thing until the math portion, and then he will start answering the questions along with Dominic.  One day, after the math section, as I worked with Dom on reading, Will just started taking out various workbooks I picked up at Target and started doing pages.  

My biggest surprise is how much the boys like doing music.  We pick a few songs and sing them and often I hear them singing throughout the day.  Last week's song was "Jesus Loves Me This I Know".  They've just about mastered the first verse.  Though, I have a very small repetoire, so any suggestions for songs are welcome!

For handwriting, I'm having Dom write out The Lord's Prayer.  The great thing about this is that we discuss what each section means and he is saying the actual words, not words that sound like the actual words that he uses on a more regular basis.  It's slow, but I think worth it in the long run.  And he didn't put up any fight about using lower case letters.

Next:  Molly goes to a wedding reception