After a very relaxing spring break, we are back at home! We drove back yesterday in beautiful weather. It's so much easier to make a drive in sunny weather than in gloomy clouds and rain!
Over the course of all the drives this week, we listened to only 2 books on CD. The first one was called The Pepins and Their Problems by Polly Horvath. It was an amusing way to spend a few hours, but I don't really think it is a book destined to become a great classic, LOL. I was just reading the Amazon reviews, and one reader called the Pepins "zany noodleheads", and I would have to agree! They have lots of problems, and then the author appeals to the readers to "think" their suggestions as to how to solve them, which the author picks up by her "special antennae". The suggestions are goofy too. The book started off very slowly--Bob was ready to give up on it after the first chapter--but thankfully it got more funny and interesting. The author does drop several witty phrases and complex words, but overall I thought her writing was not too advanced. She had a lot of dialogue, and just about every time she used "said", instead of any other more interesting synonym! "Said" is a banned word for Nathan and Luke's writing class, so that jumped right out at me, LOL. The book just seemed like a lot of random words sort of strung together--another Amazon reviewer called it a stream of consciousness book". So it was funny in parts, but not a classic.
The second book we listened to was The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting. He wrote the book when he was a soldier during World War I, as a sort of distraction. I thought his sentence structure was much more varied and that overall, his vocabulary was much richer. It was an interesting contrast, since Horvath wrote her book fairly recently, back in the 1990's, I believe. We all enjoyed that book.
We drove straight over to the McC's house, where our church small group was having a Good Friday meeting. It was nice because they were having a baked potato bar, so we didn't have to worry about stopping for dinner. We were all pretty fried after a day of driving, so we didn't linger too long. Plus, we had to get home to clear off our counters! I'll tell more in a later post, but today we are getting our tile countertops changed out for granite!
Also, after I nursed Faith before putting her to bed last night, I discovered that she has been busy this week--she has 3 new teeth! She finally got that 4th bottom front tooth we've been waiting for, and she also has her 2 top 1-year molars poking through! I feel very justified in blaming any crabbiness, drool, odd sleep patterns, etc. from these past few weeks on teething, LOL. So that brings her teeth total to 10. It's a good thing she has all those teeth though--she's finally completely done with baby food! After December, the only baby thing she was still eating was baby cereal with fruit mixed in. Before we left, I finally just started giving her regular cereal in one of our "straw" bowls (they have a built-in straw--kids love them for cereal!) and milk, and she's been doing fine with that. It's nice because no one has to feed her that. She's doing pretty well with a spoon, although she still grabs cheerios out of the milk with her hands sometimes. Faith is growing up! (Although Grace will point out, Faith is still a baby, since she wears diapers, unlike Grace, who is a BIG GIRL wearing panties.)
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