What.a.week!!! Poor Michael is allergic to poison oak and happened to get it on himself last weekend. He was playing in our woods with friends during our adult bored game day. The area he was in is a totally different area than we saw the poison oak last year, so now we will have to be vigilant to flag it this year once it has it's leaves! Anyways, he had a really bad reaction, his face swelling so badly that he couldn't open his eyes. After urgent care and meds, which did nothing and he kept swelling more, we went to the ER and he was admitted for three days. Whew. Nothing harder than watching your baby suffer while doctors fumble around something they are not familiar with (our discharge papers say he had poison ivy, which doesn't even grow in our state).
To pass the time a wonderful friend brought us snacks and bored games, however he mostly felt like sleeping and watching TV. Meanwhile Emmet and Avery stayed home with dad and played, watched movies, cleaned the house (Emmet made a cleaning plan and they did SUCH a good job keeping up with chores!!), and kept busy with crafting.
Here is us playing a bored game over last weekend after we were home from the hospital. Ticket to Ride Europe is a new favorite around here.
We started our Outer Space unit this week. Waldock way has some fun small unit studies that have an information piece to read, a craft project, links to videos and more craft ideas. We read about Outer Space, started making outer space galaxy paintings and drawings, and watched a short video on our solar system.
Avery made his galaxy with oil pastels, glue sticks, and glitter.
We played Zombie Fluxx while at the hospital. We learned a lot in the hospital too. Michael asked about all the equipment in the room and had fun exploring the buttons on his bed.
Our activity of the week for the Outer Space unit was roll a space story. We had fun verbally telling stories with the rolls.
Emmet crafted an entire suit of armor out of cardboard! He started to paint it this week as well. I was super impressed with the cut outs for knee bending, and the articulation on the helmet to make it head shape.
Writing this week was doing a board game review sheet for our portfolios.
Emmet also decided he wanted to sew an entire outfit. He found fabric and supplies from our sewing room, made one glove and almost finished a shirt before getting distracted with the armor.
Our current read aloud is the harry potter series. We are on book 3, which they hope we finish soon so we can watch the movie again.
We also watched Apollo 13, a very accruate movie about the second trip to land on the moon, which did not go as planned. We looked up lots of facts after, like there were 17 Apollo missions in total, 6 of which had astronauts land and walk on the moon!! Both John and I were shocked, we always thought Armstrong's crew were the only ones to land on the moon! We read a handful of books as well, one about Apollo 8, which was the first Apollo to make it to the moon, did several circles taking photos to select a landing site for the next mission, and then came back. I had selected a random collection of books from the autobiography section that fell into our history time line. It just so happens that they all lined up together...for example Apollo 8 made it to the moon to take the first photos of Earth from outerspace in 1986, the same year that both Hellen Keller and Martin Luther King Jr. died. It is a little ahead of where we are in history, but trying to fit in as much from then as possible with our living history books.
.jpg)
I hope your week was better than ours!! And fingers crossed we can keep Michael out of, or at least clean off, poison oak exposures without anymore hospitalizations!
The Dillmans
.jpg)
Comments
Post a Comment