Journaling

Last Tuesday, Joanna’s class got out late, and we didn’t make it back home until about 2:10.  I laid the boys down, put the girls in their room to play quietly, and took a shower.  Then I decided to have Joanna come out so she could start working on some of her homework.  No sooner had we started than I could tell that James simply wasn’t going to settle for naptime.  I went in to rock him and soon had a heavy weight on my shoulder.

He was out. (And these pics were obviously taken in the dark with my iPod.)

And it turned out to be the sweetest time with Joanna.  She couldn’t work on her homework because it involved cutting and glueing that I wanted to supervise, so she talked quietly to me more than she had the whole week before.  She also found a spiral notebook that I just cleaned the used pages out of, and she began to “journal” like {I think} she does at school.  She has filled pages and pages with little drawings and she tells me about them.  She hasn’t drawn this much in her whole life.  LOVE IT!!!!

These pictures are from just a couple of days ago.  She showed them to me when I happened to have my camera handy.

This is all of us and our house.  I can’t remember who is who except that it’s not what you’d expect.  :)  And everybody has a belly button.

And this one she told me was “Cat, cat, dog, dog, Christiana, Andy.”  How wonderful!

She has this little computer toy that she loves, and she was copying the words it spelled into her little book.

Joanna had a fever Thursday night so she couldn’t go to school on Friday.  She was so worried that she wouldn’t be able to turn in her homework that was due!  I’m so happy she seems to be enjoying school.  She never drags her feet when it’s time to go.  Yay she’s not like I was!!!