February 4, 2014

Yesterday we finished making our Valentine mailboxes to hang outside our rooms to get / give each other little notes and cards.

Toviel loves to check his every day and put little notes in everyone's mailboxes.

Elijah is hoping to collect a ton of cards and is saving them all to open on Valentine's Day.

We went to the Royal Alberta Museum today. We caught a presentation on coyotes, and we were the only ones present for it. The boys were hesitant to commit to any sort of presentation and their questions about it were "How long is it?" and, "Can we leave if we want to?" It was only 20 minutes. An easy commitment. And in the end Tove said, "I actually quite liked that. It wasn't too bad at all." It was a gentle lecture. :)

After we came home, I read several chapters in an abridged version of Gulliver's Travels to the boys. I started reading it last night and will probably end up finishing it before Friday. 

For supper tonight we decided to eat popcorn and watch some Shakespeare Animated Tales.

We watched Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, The Twelfth Night, and Taming of the Shrew.  After each one we discussed them and compared them to other stories we knew. Toviel was disturbed by Macbeth, and I should have known better. Before we went to bed, he requested I find a book with all Shakespeare's plays in it, and maybe an app that tells us more about Shakespeare and his works.

I am discovering that while Elijah likes to play all day, every day, and can create anything exciting in his mind, Toviel is often feeling bored with all the play and has a desire for different things. He needs more exposure to things and has this thirst to learn more, while it seems Elijah wants to create original ideas and play and read. He can play and play and play and play. He can outplay anyone I know!