What a day it was today. When I woke up this morning the plan was that we were going to do some school work in the morning, then I was going to drop Adelia and Oliver off at Aaron's mom's house for a few hours, while I took Lincoln and Ivan on a field trip to BYU's MAGICC Lab. But then our AC broke (again!) after the guy had just barely come to fix it not more than a week ago. So we called them again, and another guy came out to look at it and determined that when they installed the unit when the house was built that they'd soddered the coil on at too hot of a temperature, and so the metal became brittle and snapped off from the unit and was leaking coolant everywhere. It was a four hour job to fix the coil, and ended up being right in the middle of the time I was supposed to be on the field trip. So no field trip for us. I decided to go grocery shopping in the morning, and then still take Ollie and Del over to play at Grandma Swan's. Actually, we all went over there and had lunch, which was really nice. Then I took Lincoln and Ivan to play tennis for an hour, before we had to go home and meet the AC guy.
But it all worked out. I actually had a really good time playing tennis with my boys. Ivan cracked me up, by insisting the he play in his soccer shin-guards and super hero cape. :) And Lincoln surprised me by being fairly good at tennis. We even had a few volleys back and forth. I think I'd like to take them out more often.
After tennis, we picked up the younger kids, and came home to wait for the AC guy. It was a long, hot afternoon. We had quiet time for some of it. Lincoln has been doing awesome at reading silently to himself during quiet time. I had a big stack of books that I'd bought for him to read to me as part of his school starting in the fall. He found that stack and has been reading them on his own. Today I found him reading The Big Balloon Race by Eleanor Coerr. He was excited about it because he remembered seeing the hot air balloons last year in Provo on the 4th of July. We decided we could probably come up with some kind of hot air balloon project to work on after quiet time.
Making sun-catchers in one of my old stand-bys, as far as crafts go. Usually we do them in fall with apples, or pumpkins. And we've done some Christmas ones as well...but why not hot air balloons? So I got to work.
I found a template that I liked online and printed it off. Then I used a black magic marker to make the lines thicker. Then I cut the white places out of the center. When the kids got up from quiet time, we put each balloon cut-out onto a piece of contact paper. Then the kids took tissue paper and stuck it onto the back.
When they were done filling in the blank spaces, we put a second piece of contact paper on top, and cut around the edges. Then we hung our balloons in the window to catch the sun. They turned out great!
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