A Quiet Week

It was a fairly quiet, uneventful week here in BangsundLand, a blessing after the previous few weeks of flu.  School was fun this week as we continued reading Little House in the Big Woods.  Both boys are really enjoying the simplicity of the pioneer life.  Luke is working on a lapbook that has included a list of the weekly chores, how to make butter, and how to make bullets.  Don't worry.  The bullet making process was far less interesting than the butter!

In history we began studying the Mongol conquest of China.  Both boys were adequately impressed and appalled by Genghis Khan, although neither can remember his name properly.  "It starts with a G...Gugga Khan?"  Hilarious.  We also heard about Marco Polo and the fact that he tried ice cream in China for the first time at the age of nineteen.  WHAT?!?

Paul:  "That's crazy!  I'm only five and I've had TONS of ice cream!"

Yep.  This is what they will remember about Marco Polo.

Luke lost his second top front tooth this past week.  Here's the pic to prove it.

 BIG GAP!

Paul likes to read Marvin K Mooney, Will You Please Go Now?.  A line from this book talks about stamping yourself and going by mail.  Paul stamped the spot between his eyebrows in honor of this line.  Awesome.

 Big Gap Guy and Stamped Brow Boy - What a pair!

Paul likes maps.  Paul likes to make maps.  He made this map on his Magna Doodle this week.  It depicts his bedroom.  He labeled each item with its first letter.  The door is in the upper right corner.  Moving to the left, his diaper pail (garbage can), his cupboard, and then his dresser.  Center bottom is his bed and "me" which is my favorite part. :-)

And then there is this:

Paul wearing his unit blocks from Math U See on his fingers.

That's pretty much it.  Today my friend Liza is here.  She is scrapping.  I'm blogging because my scrapbook stuff is not available or interesting to me right now.  It's lovely to just sit here and do not much with a good friend.  :-)