mayans and tigers and bears.

did anybody else know that the one scene in the road to el dorado where they play the game with the golden hoop is actually the ancient mayan ballgame where the loser team's captain gets his head cut off?



yay for homeschool allowing us to do awesome things like adding this clip into our unit on the ancient mayan civilization and counting transformers: the revenge of the fallen as part of the ancient egypt study.  you know.  because of the pyramids.

we also began our introduction to energy unit, which was pretty fun because we got to make one of those old fashioned play phones made out of cups and string (which taught us about sound waves).  it's fun when bella yells out, "when i sing like this, la la la la LAAAA, it's energy, right momma?" and she's all excited and cute.

also, BREAKING NEWS.  beau did his math-u-see worksheets.  and was like, "hey, this is fun!"

i was secretly like, "YESSSSSSSSSS!" complete with corny nineties fist pump.  outwardly, i was all, "that's great, beau!  we can move on to the next lesson on wednesday!"  he also did the neatest copywork i've yet to see him do, and he's started correcting his letters when he sees he's done them incorrectly.  and today was the first day he wrote his name on all his worksheets by himself, all the while saying, "hey, writing my name is really fun!"  lol.  he'll be charging five dollars for autographs any day now.

xander traced all the letters on his first two worksheets all. by. himself.  which unfortunately tired him out mentally and he totally told me writing made his tummy hurt.  so i helped him with the rest and he happily scampered off to play even more lego star wars.  oh, the joy. 

oh, and i will leave you with moar bella funness...we were looking at a book the other day and she saw a picture of the statue of liberty.  she pointed at it and shouted, in this really excited voice, "momma!  it's the collosus of rhodes!"

close enough.