Catching up in Pictures

Judah is getting better at doing his schoolwork willingly, but he takes FOREVER to do it.  One day he was trying so hard not to do his work diligently that he carried his math page, front and back, around with him all day as we went about our day, in the car many times and even to his sister's basketball game.  When he finally completed it, it was ripped up all on the edges.  Turned out during those car trips he was tearing off tiny pieces and throwing them on the floor in the van.  So he had a lot of cleaning up to do as well as having to start all over on his math page front and back the next day.  Hope that taught him his lesson!  That was all in addition to having to do his regular assignment the next day.  Things went faster, luckily, since I was worried he'd be compounding days of work going at that speed.

Bobby LOVES his reading lessons still and gets on to me if we miss too many days of it in a week.  He is almost halfway through the 100 Lessons book.

Judah is like Hugo, the Abominable Snowman, with Daffy Duck.  "I will hug him and kiss him and squeeze him and call him George" with Luna.  She was tolerant of it for a while and now she is kind of done with that.  We are working on him learning to read the dog signs and know when to give her space, but he can hardly help himself sometimes. 

Judah is moving along in his piano lessons and is starting the staff now.

Drew has been surprisingly helpful with Luna and likes to play with her and pet her.  He is afraid of the cat, by the way.

Brian got Luna this tactical vest with patches and all.  No one in the house was enthused about this masculine vest on her, but it has turned out to be a very helpful harness for her.  She calms down tremendously when it is on her.  We now put it on her whenever someone is coming over until she calms down.

Basketball season, and all it's craziness, has begun for the girls.  This year, Genevieve, made the A team for middle school again, but Hannah is on the JV high school team.  Two different practice and game schedules, team dinners, etc has proved to be quite exhausting.  The season is pretty short though and we only have two more weeks of basketball after New Year's.  These pictures were from a UTSA women's college ball game that the teams all went to watch one Sunday afternoon.