So far things are going pretty well.  Granted, Matt hasn’t gone back to work yet (that happens tomorrow, yikes!) but we’ve started to figure out what Nathan likes and dislikes.  The big likes are nursing (duh - but thankfully not as in “I must be doing this all the time or I will scream”), the fleece pouch (which I see now comes in cotton and other fabrics…  tempting!), and being held so he can watch either his parents or his siblings.  He most emphatically does not like dairy in my diet (sigh).  He is sleeping pretty well - we usually get one five hour stretch with about one and a half hours on each side.  So far he is much more like Gregory than Emma in temperament (although I wonder if I had figured out the dairy thing with Emma earlier if things would have been a lot more pleasant for everyone!), and looks like him a lot too.  I think he’s going to have brown eyes and brown hair though, so the resemblance will not be immediately obvious.  

Emma has decided she wants to start doing a little bit of school again.  She was trying to do some writing and was having trouble with it, and got frustrated with what she didn’t know and had forgotten.  She wants to do spelling/handwriting practice, math (so long as it doesn’t involve worksheets), and Latin.  For the spelling/handwriting she’s working on a fairy tale using free paper from Notebooking Pages (funny how nifty paper can be such a motivator).  For math we’re going to do a variety of math games, some from the Math-U-See teacher’s book and some of our own devising.  Yesterday we made a board game and played it using two ten sided dice and a +/- die.  We’re reviewing Latin with flash cards that she can go through and review or match together.

I feel pretty comfortable about the mornings through the early afternoon, but I’m not entirely sure what we’ll do after about 2:30.  At that point my energy starts to fail, Gregory starts to fall apart, and the dog needs to be fed and the garden watered at the property.  I probably should just drag myself out to the property, plop myself in a chair and let the kids run around to burn off some energy (being stuck in this little apartment all day is not good for any of us!) but I think getting myself moving will be challenging.  I’m not sure I’m going to have much of a choice though!