It's all about the Epithelial

I just heard Mia yell, "One Minute!" and Maggie responded, "Of course, your majesty."

I have no idea what they're talking about but I do know Mikayla is locked up in their room with them and naptime is calling.  So their royal adventure will be interrupted soon, which will likely cause tears of royal distress.

Oh, well.

Mikayla, for her part, told me today her diaper was wet.  I've been told kids who are cloth diapered potty train earlier.  I'm scared to hope, but maybe, just maybe the baby is starting to have an understanding of her body and we'll be out of diapers!

We had our first meeting of Classical Conversations on Tuesday and it went wonderfully!  We learned about Columbus, Infinitives, Latin, and how to count by "2s".  Now it's up to us to make all of those wonderful, factual sentences come to life this week.

We got a little help!  One of our facts to learn was "What are the Four Types of Tissue?" (We are doing anatomy this year).  The answer is Connective, Epithelial, Muscle and Nerve.

Well, Mia has had a cyst on her arm since the beginning of July.  It's grown and grown and gotten uglier and uglier.  We finally made an appointment at the dermatologist, just in time for it to start draining on its own.

Yesterday was the appointment (we kept it to be sure we're taking care of it properly).  We had already done our schoolwork for the day and so I shouldn't be surprised it was on her mind, but we had quite a conversation with the dermatologist about how the cyst was a part of her epithelial!

Always looking for ways to use knowledge in a practical way!

The cyst is doing well but will take about a month longer to heal.  That seems so long to me!  It doesn't seem to be slowing her down at all, though.  As you can see, she's fully capable of being in good spirits:

We're waiting to see when that front tooth falls out!

They just crack each other up... when they're not fighting!

Feel the love!!!

I signed Mia and Maggie up for gymnastics because we're going a little stir crazy and need to meet some new friends who live in our own zip code.  Today is our first day!  (Please pray for no injuries, it's a complete gamble to put them in gymnastics because we're currently without insurance.  Yep, we like to live on the edge.)

That's all from here!