Tuesday's Karie stays an hour after school to get help with reading. She loves it and it's paying off! She has been reading a lot more lately & with a lot more confidence. I didn't think we would see progress this early!
So when she was there it was just Kegan, Kellan & I back at home. Kyle said he would pick up Karie. That was nice because it gave Keegs and I some more one on one time. With 3 kids individual attention is rare these days but we try to do it as much as possible. K slept basically the entire time so that was nice.
For Christmas Keegs got a Kinex kit to build. He started it over break but never got to finish it so he sat down last night to work on it. I asked him if it would be okay if while he was building if I took photos of him. He gave me a look like "Heck no." until I said you don't have to do anything but build. You don't have to smile at the camera. You just have to do whatever you were going to do. He was okay with it then.
So he built. We talked about what he was building. We talked about school. We talked about Christmas. His birthday. The summer. Kellan. Karie. Dad. The possibility of no school on Wednesday. Basically whatever he wanted to talk about.
I only had to help him a few times with his pieces. He was incredibly surprised to hear that I played with K'nex as a kid. He then proceeded to ask me if the commercials on TV about K'nex were in color or black and white. Apparently I am super old and didn't have color TV growing up. We laughed a lot.
These photos really had me push my limits with my comfort zone with my camera. I have always "feared" ISO. I hated turning my ISO high because I didn't want my photos to be grainy. I didn't want to use my flash though. My kitchen was kind of dark. It was after 4. Sunset is around 4:45 so you can imagine how dark the kitchen was getting especially with no lights on. The window lighting was enough for Kegan to build since he was sitting right next to the window. So I cranked my ISO up to 2,000. I was pleasantly surprised with the results. I actually love the results. Our IKEA lights in the background make for a cool effect too!
Then things just got weird.
I shouldn't even call it weird. It's normal in our world. Kegan just beats to his own drum. He's funny and extremely literal. For example. Let's say is 7:58. I will say it's 8. Kegan will tell you no. It's 7:58. If you ask him to do something you have to give EXACT directions. If you sway from that he will do it EXACTLY how you told him to do it. It's frustrating sometimes but other times it makes me laugh.He's really smart and his literal side makes things like math come naturally to him. You can ask him a math question and he answers it like it's something he's always known. He didn't get that from me. I am not a math person. It's crazy to me to watch this little person ramble off all this math stuff.
Now it's Wednesday and sure enough school is cancelled due to the cold. I'm being a mean mom and making the kids clean their rooms. As soon as I am done with this post I will be going to clean my room too. Then we can spend the rest of the day having fun...inside.
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