Sisser's 19th Birthday, and She Came Over (With Visitors!)

Sisser is 19 today, and she came over. Dylan and his younger brother came over too. Seth is taller than Dylan, though, so now Karl is hoping he will be taller than Corey and Josh. I'm hoping he is as tall, but I doubt he will be taller.

Karl is still having trouble counting correctly to 20, he still jumps from 13 to 18, so I'm going to try something new, and that's to make a chart where he is 0, then 1, then 2, and so on up to now, where he's six. Then I'm going to put Sisser down, also, because she was almost 13 when he was born. I'm hoping that showing him that Sisser's age didn't jump from 12, almost 13, when he was born, to 18 (and now 19 - and next year, 20, when he will have already turned 7).

It'll look like something like this:

.......0.......1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......7

12.....13.......14.....15......16.....17......18.....19

And, they said that they'd love to go camping with us, too, so the big camping trip is going to have even more people. Looking forward to it!!!

Big Brother Corey's Birthday - He's 25 Today!!!

Time sure does fly when your kids are growing up. It seems like yesterday that Corey was Karl's age, and in homeschool himself. Now, Corey's a quarter of a century old!

Wow, that makes me feel a bit old, lol. Even though Corey won't be coming into town, and he has his Facebook privatized so nobody,not even his friends, can post on his Wall, I've sent him a couple of messages.

We also made him a cake, and Karl wanted to put 25 candles on it, but I told him we didn't have that many. I'm using this as an opening to move him up to 25 in addition. In about a week, we'll start the subtraction up to 25, but I have to make some of our own flashcards for that.

Making your own flashcards is quite easy, just use heavy paper or light cardboard, and a marker. Make them all the same size, and write in very small size numbers at the top the numbers, with the answer, on the opposite side, using a pen.