Norah was fascinated by the pumpkins. I wanted a cute picture of her sitting among all the pumpkins, but she had other plans. She examined each one carefully and rolled on them with her tummy.
Stephan walking down the Golden Delicious aisle. He said it looked like Bridge to Terabithia.
On Sunday we watched the Packer game at Pops and Liza's house. Aunt Shelly was in town for the weekend and brought Norah this cute polo track suit. She liked to point out the stripe to everyone she saw. And she was thrilled with her bow! Norah really likes wearing hair accessories lately. She has always tolerated them, but now she wants to wear them. (And I am SO excited about that! Finally, she loves shoes and accessories!) Even though she has a lot of stretchy headbands, she likes to wear one of my regular headbands. She wore it all weekend & didn't want to take it off at bed time.
This is an atom splitter made by Stephan. He checked out a book called Star Jumper from the library. The character in the book makes all kinds of creations with boxes and other supplies. Last night after homework and dinner, Stephan got to work on the atom splitter. He did it entirely on his own and improvised some of the parts since we did not have all of the materials used in Star Jumper. (I don't know if you can see the slits with quarters in the front of the box or how the forks are attached to the sides.) He wants to make a model of Star Jumper's spaceship, but the supply list he gave me has about 40 items! And we don't have many of them like nylon yarn and copper wire. I want to figure out a way for him to make it though because he is so creative. Hmmmm....there seems to be engineer blood in his veins. I wonder where he gets that?!?
Stephan has always enjoyed making elaborate things out of household items. When he was 4 and 5 years old, he used to make costumes out of printer paper. If he wanted to be Robin Hood, he made all of the arrows, a bow and the arrow bag out of paper. (He also had quite a collection of costume hats to go with whatever he made!) And when he was in 1st or 2nd grade, he made elaborate scenes, such as a Civil War camp, in our living room. He made the fire out of construction paper, brought pots and pans from the kitchen, made a tent and set up a little scene with other items he would find from around the house. It was fun and creative, but he always wanted to live his scenes in place for days and days....
Stephan is very thoughtful with his work and play. I think that is why he is struggling with the speed math unit at school. He gets all of the problems he finishes correct, but he always, always runs out of time. They have 5 minutes to complete 100 problems, and he needs just one or one & a half more minutes. It has caused a lot of frustration for him AND us during math homework. I found a speed math "training" book on Amazon. Maybe that will help.
(I am sorry the text spacing is off in this post! I cannot make it look normal!)
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