A blog outside of my normal blogging schedule

Went to the library today trying to have a "normal" experience. Hey, I know the library. How hard can it be? Hard enough to almost bring me to tears. I kept asking, "where are the books?" Here's how it works. You go to the card catalog and find the book you want. You then give the information to a person who goes back to a undisclosed room to retrieve the book. You cannot see the books. You cannot touch the books. You cannot browse the books. You cannot borrow the books! UGH! Okay, so I obviously didn't have a normal experience and I didn't get any books because I can't actually think of a book in Spanish that I've been dying to read in the library.

BUT....they have a big kid's section full of books that we can read and touch. But we can't take them home. And the bummer was that we arrived at 10:30 a.m. and the kids's section is completely closed until 12 p.m. So, we didn't get to do anything. And....we just didn't realize that you can't actually borrow the books. So...I guess going to the library won't be part of our homeschooling routine.

And a little antecdote about Jaxson Dean. He is so different than Parker. Parker loves to read and do math and is very studious. Parker excels at all things analytical. Jaxson cries everytime I ask him to write his name or sound out a letter. But.....he loves to exercise and do sports. Yesterday, he begged me to do a workout video so he worked out for 30 minutes to a video and then kept saying, "I'm really tired. But I can't give up because Sportacus doesn't give up."

And then, he wanted another video so that he could do weights. He really wants big muscles and is almost fanatical about eating healthy. "Would sportacus eat this?" he asks me. Anyway, I let him workout with my 1 lb. weights to a video. He did a few minutes of it before we realized he had a fever and was getting sick. But how interesting is it that he dreads writing his name, but yet loves working out at 4 years old (almost 5 in 3 weeks). How different God made us all!

Just wanted to share how unique each child is. He is totally going to be the athletic, jock type who loathes school. But hey, at least he'll be in good shape! :) Which is fine since we can't bring home books from the library anyway.