Picture Taking Lull

I feel like I haven’t posted pictures in quite a while. But I really haven’t taken many recently, either, so I haven’t felt the desire to come down and download them off my camera. Sometimes it just seems like nothing is particularly picture-worthy. Not because the kids aren’t cute… just for some reason I don’t find myself saying “Oh, that’d be a cute picture” and racing to try to take it before the situation changes (which it almost always does). I did take a picture of the look on Ezra’s face as he squashed the tomato last week, though. I’ll have to try to remember to post that sometime.\par
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We went to a new homeschooler meeting today: Honeycomb Kids. The idea is that people with little kids (say, under 10) can have a time and a place to perform the things that they’re memorizing. They’re hoping to meet every 7 weeks. There were only about 6 maybe that were old enough, so the reciting bit went quickly (which was good because their younger siblings can only sit quietly for so long), and afterwards there was a lovely, noisy, confusing playdate for all of the kids. My boys sure had a great time! And I did too, listening to all of the triumphs and disasters of the other moms. Made me think that perhaps waiting for a little while longer to get started on baby #3 was a good idea.\par
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The playdate\’c3\’82\’c2\~was also good for Judah ,especially, to have an opportunity to learn the proper way in which to interract with other kids (sharing and cooperation) and to be corrected for improper ways of interracting with other kids (whacking and kicking). Initially one feels rather shamefaced that one’s child is misbehaving, and then I realized – “no, this is exactly what we’re here for! How else is he going to learn these things?!” So it was all around a good experience, hopefully one which we’ll be able to repeat regularly.