Things that go verbose in the night.

Several nights ago, I got up to see why ZL was chattering and wide awake. At 3 AM. Never did figure out exactly, but we're guessing it was a tummy ache from the copious amounts of stuffed grape leaves he ate at a birthday party the previous evening (which he chose over the cookies and cake available).

Anyway, I came back to bed, and it looked suspiciously like ML had rolled over and taken most of my 1/2 of the covers with him in the process (it turns out he had not, but the accusation was not without precedence). When I grumbled/griped about what I thought had happened, his reply was to huff and say, "I have done nothing but show you extravagant kindness!"

Um, I'm used to him saying funny things to me in the middle of the night, but waxing literary is new. I laughed at him and went to sleep. And he laughed at himself the next day when I told him what he'd said.

Turns out it's an epidemic.

Last night at around 2 AM, a short shadow appeared on my side of the bed. I asked JW what the problem was. He started with, "As you can see..." (which I couldn't, but that's kind of beside the point) and proceeded to try to describe his predicament. He then followed me to the bathroom as I heard, "yet I was not aware of how it happened" and "the worst part of the situation was." At 2 AM. Think this seven-year-old reads a bit?

JW 2007-2008

JW is using the age-appropriate version of many of the things MS is, so I won't go into the reason I've chosen most of this, but here's his list.

• Sonlight LA 1 (newest version)
• Sonlight Intermediate 2 readers (old system)
  
• Handwriting Without Tears Letters and Numbers for Me
• Singapore Math Primary Mathematics 1A & 1B
• Miquon Orange (and possibly beginning Red)
• Rosetta Stone Arabic (like MS, if I ever get it set up)
• Rod & Staff Beginning in Music 1

JW likes to work in one book at a time for extended periods (at least one whole school-time period), so he will work for a while in his Singapore book, then for a while at Miquon and then do handwriting for several days. I keep track of where I'd like him to be in each book and then, just make sure he's at or ahead of that point.