6 Year Old Perks

As a 6 year old in the Hill family, you are awarded one perk for the year and only that year.  You get to climb up the laundry shoot at Grandmama's house in Grand Saline.  Even though Cavett had been running fever the previous day, he was dead set on going to Grand Saline on Saturday to do just that.  It was THE first thing he did as soon as we got out of the car. 

It's a big laundry shoot.  Fairly wide.  In fact, I think I could have stood in the middle of it and not felt too claustrophobic.  The unfortunate part was that Cavett was still a bit small for it.  Dad gave him a little help with one foot pushing him up, but he still wasn't quite able to make it.  He'll be able to try again about Spring Break, and maybe he'll have grown a bit by then.  

The biggest foul of the weekend was that diesel  was accidentally poured into the Pug.  Stephen suspected it, but didn't realize it until after it was loaded down with 2 cords of wood we had just split it the woods.  Stphen used the tractor to puch it out backwards until we got to the pasture.  Stephen also saved the day and siphoned it out.  He only got a little in his mouth........  :P

We also had many enjoyable moments in the big Catalpa tree reading.  Kendrick sat for at least 20 minutes reading whereas Cavett spent about an hour and a half total during the weekend up there reading. 

Precious times.  

How much fun can you have with laundry baskets?

Another edition of "How much fun can you have with..."

2 Accomplishments

Yesterday during quiet time Cavett and I finished "The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe." When asked which character was his favorite, he responded, "Peter--beacuse he has a sword. I liked the battle!" I'm quite proud of him for maiking it through the whole book and being so interested in it. As we have been going along, I have been asking him comprehension questions and he is nailing them with little or no prompt. So, for his birthday he will receive the whole collection.

He also learned how to fold socks and pants yesterday. We had tried to learn earlier, but now he's just about gotten it. This is a huge help to me as he can now really help with the laundry other than just sorting. Housework is so much more fun when you have a partner!

Laundry

On Saturdays when Stephen works, it's our time to get household chores accomplished with no errands to run or places to go. Today the task was folding the mountainous basket of laundry. Cavett likes to help. And by help, I really mean it. He sorts the clothes into piles for each person. It's fun to ask him if what is obviously Dad's pants go into Kendrick's pile. Cavett is also good at matching socks and is trying to learn how to fold them together. As you can see one person in our house goes through many more clothes than the rest of us. Or maybe it's just that his clothes are bigger. Hmm...... Afterward, Cavett gave Kendrick a ride in the basket. Such fun.