Fed Up with Verizon!

Ugh! Have I ever mentioned how frustrating it is to deal with Verizon Wireless' Customer Service? Let me just see if anyone here can understand this scenario: There was one account with 6 phones on it. We wanted to split it into 2 separate accounts; one with 4 phones on it, one with 2 phones on it. Still with me so far? In addition to THAT monstrous change, we wanted one account to keep its current mailing address and owner name. We wanted the other one to have a new owner name and have a different mailing address (essentially, we wanted to open a new account and transfer two of the six lines from the old account to the new one). If you are still with me, you are WAY too with it to work for Verizon's Customer Service, either their help line or at their store. Why is it that it took us 6 MONTHS to get it through to them what we wanted to do? I think we finally got it ironed out today, but we'll see. It's highly likely that we'll still be getting bills with someone else's name on them.

I hope it IS all sorted out because if it is, I NEVER want to have to talk to them again! It's THAT irritating and frustrating. The actual phone service is fine, the customer service is horrible!

James and the Giant Peach

We began doing read aloud books last year, I believe. We kicked it off with Charlotte's Web. Since then we have read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Chocolate Fever, The Chocolate Touch (do you see the theme here?), How to Eat Fried Worms (ok, end of theme), and Alice in Wonderland. We are now reading James and the Giant Peach, and G is LOVING it! It's so much fun to read to a child who bursts into laughter with each silly thing that is said. G is constantly begging for another chapter. He never wants to stop! It is so great!

Noah's Ark

We've been reading the story of Noah's Ark this week, and I thought it would be fun for G to paint a picture to go with the story. He loved the idea!There's a dove in the sky, then left to right we have a turtle, Noah, an alligator, a giraffe and an elephant.

What Do You Want For Breakfast?

That's what I asked G this morning, and his answer was a new one...and a yummy one! He suggested we go outside, pick some blackberries and make blackberry pancakes. I had never done this before, but it sounded good. So he went out and picked a few berries, and we made the pancakes. He really got into the chef's role, apron and all! We also took the opportunity to play with the measuring cups and get an introduction to fractions.

Sugar Crystals

Our science project for this week is growing sugar crystals. Here is our jar of sugar solution with a string hanging down into it for the crystals to grow on.

And here are our sugar crystals 2 days later:

Jugglers

Today we made these juggling balls to go with our FIAR book. We filled balloons with rice, then cut off the neck of another balloon and stuffed the first balloon inside upside down to secure it. We then practiced our juggling skills...Daddy proved himself the Juggling King!

Stylized Trees and a bit of Korean

This week we are reading The Clown of God for our FIAR book, and we made stylized trees like the ones in the illustrations out of play-doh.

We also made a model of a little juggling man. :-)

Totally unrelated, but later we ate dinner at a terriyaki place, and the woman who works there taught us how to say thank you in Korean: (com sah mi dah).