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and then they were excited to eat them - woo! uncooked oats!

Tuesday's opposites lesson was also outside and full of body examples: up/down, loud/quiet, fast/slow; they had a ball! And then we went to our little chapel's evening Mass, where the entrance hymn is always "Oh, Mother of Perpetual Help, to thee we come imploring help", and so P&A drew another connection to our daily lives; love it.

We combo'd Wednesday's lesson, which we'd skipped, with Thursday's and covered circles (which look like Os) and ovals (which begin with O) and oceans. I don't think Ada really got that concept ... she pointed to anything blue on a map and called it something it is not: river, lake, ocean, Uncle Pete's beach. 

Paul really enjoyed this letter's animals - he loved reading the couple of otter books we'd checked out, and all the octopus facts were so interesting and bizarre. We also, oddly, have several toy octopuses; apparently that's a hot baby toy theme?

And theeen Paul received this in the mail from his godparents, and he promptly wanted to sit down and talk about each animal. He was sincerely as excited about it IRL as he is in this photo!