Nerds!

My kids have all turned into nerds...

Emily was teaching Molly a song about creation and they were singing along fine when Molly forgot the words...she ad libbed..."the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria!" at the end of the song about Genesis and Creation...we all burst into laughter.  The big kids learned about Columbus in Co-op and sing a song in the car all the time about the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria...guess Molly knows it too!

Two days ago, while we were out with friends somewhere (I can't remember where now)...Someone in the group said something about the state of Arkansas.  John Daniel went on to tell the person that the Capital was Little Rock, where it was located in the United States, and then today he learned when Arkansas was admitted into the Union...the only reason he wanted to know this was because we were working on his Geography fair project and he learned that the State of Washington, which is his topic, was the 42nd state admitted into the Union...so then he wanted to know the order of the states as they were admitted into the union...so we googled it and printed out a list!  They thought it was fascinating :)

Emily is taking a very hard (poor usage of words and this will be funny once you read what I type here) writing class this year called Institute for Excellence in Writing.  I say this with all seriousness...as I sit in class with her, I'm learning all kinds of new stuff!!!!  So now when we are talking around the house, Emily loves to pick out poor usage of words, she likes to point out stong verbs, quality adjectives, who/which clauses....it's pretty funny really!  Oh funny is a banned word...and so is pretty!  YIKES