Happy Tuesday

Ethiopia abounds here in Washington!  Tonight we will be having a delicious Ethiopian dinner to celebrate... Tuesday.   We aren't actually celebrating anything, just enjoying the time to cook a traditional dinner.   Grandma and Grandpa are coming over for dinner too... I wonder what they will think???  We also made an Ethiopian friend yesterday.  We were at swimming lessons and Marta turned around and stared when she heard a woman speaking Amharic.  She QUICKLY made friends with the woman and her daughter.  We are so excited to make that connection and will be calling her soon to get together.  Marta was super excited to hear that our new friend has lived in America for 6 years and still speaks Amharic.  The kids (especially Marta and Joseph) want to keep their native languages while becoming fluent in English. 

 

This week began swimming lessons and athletic development camp for all the kids!  They are having fun and working really hard.  Joseph and Marta are also spending each day with Grandpa catching up on math skills and making sure that they are ready for the fall.  Thank you Grandpa!!!!!!!!!!  We worked through a story last night about fossils and the I taught the kids how to do an Image search on Google for words they don't know.  They used it several times for magma, fossil, roadway, and extinct.  I stayed close by in case something "iffy" popped up but all was well and it was so helpful for them as they read through the story.

 

Danny is working his way through the Magic TreeHouse series, I love watching him devour the books and read with such expression and understanding.  Jacob and Lilly are both reading well too.  I am so proud of them both and they are taking their "silent reading" time very seriously and love learning to read.  They are both pretty independent and only accept help when they cannot figure it out themselves. 

 

Have I told you lately that my kids are FABULOUS????????