We had a bit of a late start today, but nothing too drastic, and I managed to get caught up on the dishes and such, so I didn't mind.  Kids were a bit bouncy -- I think they're coming down with a bit of a cold.  Again.  M was fussy all day yesterday, and D woke up shortly after 5 am this morning and couldn't get back to sleep.  S has been a cranky pants all day so far, getting upset at everything.  They are all asleep now -- a small miracle which I am not properly appreciating, since it means they might be up late tonight. 

We started as usual, with singing, a prayer, and scriptures.  I'm roughly following the Old Testament Stories book, and this week is the Creation.  I was reading Genesis 1, and about the beasts being created.  D asked when, then, did God create dinosaurs?  and S wanted to know if the beasts that were created were like the beast in Beauty and the Beast.  Sigh.  We worked on our memorizing -- I recited the Articles of Faith I/we have memorized so far, and D followed along to see if I was right.  We did a brief review of the primary lesson from Sunday (I'm a teacher now, but I teach the class between D's and S's.  D's class uses the same manual, though).  We had poetry time.  I took out the Winnie the Pooh poems and let the boys choose.  Then it was history reading time -- we read a chapter from The Story of Mankind.  Last week's was about hieroglyphics, this week's was about how people came to the Nile to farm and live and how pyramids came to be built to protect the dead from robbers.  Since I printed this book without the pictures, we went to the computer to google for hieroglyphics and pyramids.  We found a page where you can [http://www.quizland.com/hiero.mv] translate into hieroglyphics and did our names, then [http://greatscott.com/hiero/] a more general page about hieroglyphics.  Then looking up pyramids, we found a [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid/] virtual tour of a pyramid at the PBS website.  D loved this, and I thought it was pretty cool too.  Then we went on to the French cds and D, once again, was hesitant at first, but by the time we needed to start making lunch and pacify M, he didn't want to stop.  I had hoped to get started with Making Math Meaninful this morning, but it didn't happen.

After lunch, D said he wanted us to pretend we were at school so he could see if he liked it.  I said OK, it's quiet minutes time, so we'll have quiet reading time like they do at school.  You can choose a book to read and sit at the table (like a desk) and read it quietly.  He asked if we could do crafts instead, since they do crafts at school.  I said they do, but only when the teacher says it's craft time, and I say it's not craft time, it's reading time.  He said OK and we started.  About 6 minutes in, he leaves the table to sit on the couch.  I told him he couldn't leave without permission, since we were pretending to be in school, and he said he didn't want to any more, he hated sitting at the table.  I think it's mostly because he wasn't feeling well -- he just laid down on the couch for the rest of quiet minutes and fell asleep.

I've been trying to get my links to work, and I don't know what's up with them!  Arg.