Because I need to post something.

Three interesting things happened today during school at Hannah's house.   

(1)  My hardly-able-to-keep-a-straight-face moment:  Hannah's 6yo reported to me during ancient history lessons that in ancient Sparta, they sent all the boys to "millinery school."  

(2) For U. S. History, I showed the big kids the first half of the 1991 TV miniseries Separate but Equal, starring Sidney Poitier and Burt Lancaster.  I'd forgotten how good the film was.  Teaching U. S. history mostly without a "main" textbook has been an eye-opening experience.  I have so much more confidence that I don't need to rely on a "box" curriculum, even for subjects that aren't my area of expertise.

(3) He's a careful little guy, but it had to happen eventually:  The one-year-old fell all the way down the stairs.  I was sitting in the living room across from them when it happened.  Nothing like watching your baby's body bouncing from step to step down to the hard tile floor.  Fortunately he landed with the right end up — I was running to catch him and I could just tell that he wasn't going to be hurt from the experience.  He was shaken up, though.  I expected crying, but instead he sort of complained loudly at me, then bent over at the waist and put his head on the floor, I guess to demonstrate what had happened to him.