oh, january!

So in January there were several big decisions/momentous events.

 

1. We found out we're having a boy.  YAY.  I was hoping for a boy so much that I was sure that it was going to be a girl.  At the moment we're planning to name him Ramses Joseph.

 

2. Rose Pink decided that she didn't want to go to public school this fall after all.  When she and Nut Brown announced that they were going to public school this year, Mr. Brown started a more intensive round of homeschooling to make sure that they would be at 'grade-level' (such a subjective term!) and Rose Pink complained one day that she 'never had any free time' since school now takes a couple hours a day or all morning.  Mr. Brown laughed and told her that if she went to public shcool she would only have an hour or so of free time in the evenings, and that was enough to make her change her mind.  Mr. Brown and I are secretly glad she did.

 

3. Nut Brown started sounding out words all by himself.  We taught him his letters and the sounds they make over the last several months, and have been waiting for this... it means he's ready to learn to read!

 

4. Mr. Brown passed a kidney stone.  A big one.  We're hoping it's a contributing factor to his ongoing anxiety and depression, and that maybe it will be somewhat alleviated by expelling this sharp pointy crystal.

 

On to February!