Well, we've finished our second week of home school! He is doing AWSOME with the saxon math. I'm able to do 2 or 3 lessons/ day with him. It's rather simple I found. I almost decided to send it back and get the gr. 1, but it would've cost me too much to send it back!

So I just pick and choose wich lessons to do (like, the shapes... my two year old knows them, and Ethan knew them and others by 18 mos.) so we just skip those ones. The reading isn't going quite as smoothly, which I admit I'm finding a little disapointing. Ethan is easily convinced that he is unable to do something and he came into reading with that attitude. So it's been a bit of a fight on TRYING. He is in Lesson 4 of the Maloney 1A book. He has been in lesson 4 this whole week. The first two lessons went GREAT, but since then he's been fighting it, not wanting to do it. Considering what avid readers my dh and I are, it's a little disapointing. But I slowed down and we're just doing a bit at a time. He does quite well with the sounds, but has trouble NOT stopping between sounds. Is this normal? Any ideas? Dh promised to make Chocolate Chip Cookies with him once he can read part of the recipie for them, so that's been incentive for him. But he hates it when we have to re-do stuff. Like the first set of sentances in Lesson 4: he made more (WAY more) than 6 mistakes so we're suposed to redo the lesson. He does not like that.
Levi (2 1/2) is doing well too, for the most part. I'm doing "Gentle Revolution" cards with him and his sister (7 mos.) and he "tags" along with Ethan on his work. He likes the pattern blocks and teddies. He even covered a pattern block design with blocks- he did it perfectly!!! and in Math today he did the task on counting pennies to match the number cards, he did pretty good on those too! He's a smart little monkey!
Anyway, now I"M rambling!
He's doing well with his memmory verse as well (PSalms 83: 18)
and books of the bible (got the first three down)
We're having a lot of fun decorating our "classroom" with fall/harvest pictures. We painted a Levi sized scarecrow the other day to put up!
I'm sad right now tho, cuz I have to get a job!

I really hate working! I get panic attacks and am dealing with Post Partum Depression (had it with all three) but we need more $$$ very badly. DH doesn't make a lot, he's just starting out as an aprentice electrician. Any way, enough rambling on!
Hope all is going well in homeschool world with everyone!
Tiia