We started the new math books yesterday as well as adding in some new activities. Swimming lessons started yesterday too. #1 did ok getting through it all, but #2 was still working at 5:00 last night. It wasn't that there was too much for him to do. It was mostly that he thought he had time to take more and longer breaks than he really had. I put on his assignment sheet what all had to be covered and what the extra activities were, but it didn't seem to matter. He enjoys reading and playing. What he did was all great. He read things about weather, and he created several inventions to save the world- in his head of course. He played outside, talked to the animals, ran through the field, visited the neighbor's dogs, and who knows what else. School is not the most important thing to him. -------- We had friends over for dinner last night. They have a 2 1/2 year old son. His mom was giving him some ice cream out of her bowl, and having a hard time doing it, so his dad asked if he wanted to eat with him. The little boy looked at his dad's empty bowl and shook his head no. His dad started scooping ice cream out of the mother's bowl so he could feed the boy, and the boy started eating faster. I guess he thought his dad was taking his ice cream! Funny.