I'll bet you thought they never learned anything

Many people may be wondering: If you just had a new baby, and you felt so lousy and immobilized that you did basically nothing but complain, how is that you are "home schooling"? And what are they actually learning? Well, here is proof of something, anyway:

Here is Sweetums with her poster on the loon, which she did an oral report on for our homeschool co-op. She did all the work, trust me. However, I did manage to find the loon coloring page.

Truckster did his oral report -- and he is FIVE -- an oral report, I tell you -- on the Dakotas. He told me all the facts, and I handwrote them out on the white paper. He did the pasting of the various elements, and while he was doing his report I was not allowed to even help him hold the poster. His deal. Very proud.

We also, this fall, went to Mankato MN to visit the real life houses where Betsy and Tacy lived. Can you even believe this? It looks just like the Lois Lenski drawing! it was awesome!

Here is where Maud Hart Lovelace lived.

And here is where her friend "Bick" lived. Can't remember her real name. It is now a little gift-shop slash museum. We had a chance to see the armchair her dad sat in.

And here we are on the bench at the foot of the Hill Street Hill. It isn't the original, but in every other respect is much like we pictured. What a great day! We talked and talked about the books and how things change.

Of course, Fifi still can't spell very well, and Sweetums is just barely able to subtract 8 from 12.

Still.