Our first week ended well. Yesterday we went on a nature walk first thing in the morning and collected some leaves to paint on Tuesday. Friday is more of an "odds and ends" day, in which we don't have anything from the regular science curriculum, for example, and catch up instead on web links that we had opened over the course of the week. Additionally, the kids have a longer piano instruction time.

I think I have worked out a lot of the time issues with our schedule now, so next week should go more smoothly--that is, if my computer and our internet access behave themselves. And the Rosetta Stone Student Management System software. It's so nice to have a multimedia homeschool, but it certainly has its risks too when the system goes down.

Anyway, the pictures you are seeing on this post are from the Austin Sumobot Tournament that we went to today as spectators. (You can see my son wearing the striped shirt in the photo on the right.) The Transformer is so interested in robots and wants so badly to participate in a Lego Robotics club. However, I don't really know the first thing about robots or how to get him involved. And it appears that most clubs require a minimum age of 8.

Anyway, I had joined the Austin Robotics Yahoo! group and found out about this Sumobot competition. It was really cool and a lot of fun. There is a class that is being offered in the spring for beginners in my son's age group; however, it is all the way up in Round Rock. I'm just not that excited about driving up that far every week. I am considering it, but I am also hoping desperately that something closer to us is available and affordable.