Occupying Ethan

What does Ethan do while we do school? A lot of time he'll listen to whatever book we are reading. Or I'll try to get him to trace or cut paper. Those things only really happen about 30% of the time though. Shockingly when Belle is having a spelling test that she has to write on paper, he'll sit very well with his own paper and wait for me to call out a letter for him to write. I'll alternate calling a word for Belle and then calling a letter for Ethan. He does really well actually and gets most letters right. Mostly I just try to go with what he's into and right now he's into writing letters and drawing pictures, or running around and destroying everything.

Deep in thought trying to conquer the "W". Every time he'd try to write it, it would end up as an "M".

But, what do you do when your 3 yr old wants to participate in school/or play with sissy when she really needs to focus on her work alone? You get him his own Macbook. Lucky for the kids, I upgraded recently. It wasn't able to handle the load of all my files anymore and it was just showing it's overall wear. So the kids got it, it's perfect to run their games.

Ethan will play on zoodles.com (which is awesome because it is absolutely kid proof), starfall.com, and readingeggs.com (which is still a little advanced for him). He's doing all educational stuff on there so I sort of count it as preschool. Today he was playing a game where he had to find different shapes in a picture. And another he had to use some logic to try and get a ball into a pond by moving sticks around so it fell in the right way. Win Win! Now the only problem is Belle wanting to play on the computer when I need her to be doing her work. Lucky for her, she has her own readingeggs.com and zoodles account. She just discovered that she can send video email on her own through zoodles.  So Mimi may be getting daily video ramblings courtesy of Belle.