Lots of Boys

Today we spent the day at the house of some friends. The McCs are in our Bible study and homeschool co-op, and they also have 4 boys, ages 6, 5, 3, and 6 months. Today was co-op day, and Nathan went, but Luke's class (K-5) and the K-4 kids were supposed to go on a field trip to the Udvar-Hazy Annex to the Air and Space Museum. This is a good museum, one that we like, but I just really felt like 4 and 5 year-old kids weren't going to get much out of it, unless they came from all Air Force families, like ours! It is a big cavernous building too, and many of the 4 year-olds are really not that obedient, so I could envision lots of chaos and scary situations. I was thinking about not sending Luke, but I wasn't sure what else to do, since he would be sad to miss co-op. Then Christine said she wasn't going to send her Caleb, so we decided to have a play date instead. The boys had so much fun! Christine picked up Nathan and Isaac and brought them back to her house so the boys could continue playing after lunch. You might think that having 8 boys under 8 in one house would be so crazy and loud, but it really wasn't. Everyone played so nicely together. The McCs are also following The Well-Trained Mind, and they are using Story of the World, Vol. 2 for history as well. They're a little ahead of us, but they're definitely in the middle ages as well, so the boys enjoyed playing with their Pappo castle and knights. It's wonderful to have found a family with which we have so much in common! We are already planning to have a joint medieval feast during the summer to celebrate the end of the school year.