Guitar Lessons

Susy is really good at strumming. She's got pretty good rhythm.

They have a great teacher! He even gives quizzes which they love. Weird kids!

Throw Another Log on the Fire

Guitar update:

Claire now knows two chords and can go back and forth between them slowly. Pretty good progress for two days.

By the end of the week she should be playing Kum-ba-yah.

And the Beat Goes On

Larry is teaching the Emma and Claire how to play the guitar. Strum. Strum. Strum. One of the many benefits of homeschooling is you can play the guitar ALL day long! I think Claire has that ONE chord down now! Strum. Strum. Strum. Strum. After about 100 times we all banished her to the back room to practice. Strum. Strum. Strum.

Arghhh!!!! More chords please!

I Want to Go to Detroit! [Say it like Will Ferrel in Elf.]

Wow. After watching this, I want to go to Detroit!

Feel the Force

As I sit here thinking about doing the laundry since my New Year's revolution was to do laundry on Tuesdays and Friday I have to smile as I listen to Larry playing video games with the girls.

Larry: "No, Susy. You're Anakin. Emma's Princess Padmé."

Susy: : "Is Padmé's last name Armadillo?"

Larry: "No, That's an animal."

I would stop the children to help me do the laundry but they are all playing so nice together.

Minty Fresh

The girls love to hear stories about when they were little. I know they are still little, but they like to hear about stuff they can't remember.

One of my favorite crazy kid memories is of Claire. When she was just 18 months old she loved to chew gum. I, of course, did not give her the gum. It was the grandparents. My dad kept a stash of gum in a drawer in their kitchen. Being a smart kiddy Claire figured this out. One day she took a large pack of spearmint Trident and snuck downstairs with it and proceeded to eat almost the whole pack. That's about 20 pieces of gum. (This was when she used to swallow food whole. I kid you not she wolfed her food down. The things I would find in her diapers!) So she didn't actually chew the gum. I wasn't too worried about it. I figured it would all come out in the end.

About two hours later Claire needed her diaper changed. It was the best smelling diaper I have ever changed. It was minty fresh! I guess all that gum made her gassy because the rest of the day she kept cutting the cheese except it was more like fresh mint cheese.

Let There Be Light!

And all of Michigan rejoiced as the sun finally broke through the clouds after three weeks of hiding!