Day 129, 130, 131, 132, 133 (Yikes!)

Monday was snowy yet again, but only resulted in a short delay in our getting to orchestra.  It was an all day affair, and while I was only able to get Luke to go by telling him he could stay in the car, he later came in for lunch, and did participate in the sectional. 
I've noticed that he's playing the keyboard a lot at home lately.  It seems to calm him down and he can regain himself if he has some time to play.  He's made up a couple of tunes, and I got a book from the library with simple songs for him to learn.  I started to go over one today with him, and it didn't take him long to change it to suit himself. 
In the course of this week (this being Friday), a lot of things have happened, and not happened.  We discovered a cool web site for coloring pages that are not the typical little-kid coloring pages at The Coloring Spot.  We found Stonehenge, and a Minotaur, and there were scads more of all sorts.  Very well done and fun to color!  We added the two to our history books (still going through the World History Encyclopedia) and I believe that was the day the math went away.
Wednesday it was supposed to snow.  Not a little snow, but Inches and Inches.  It snowed, yes.  It did not snow inches and inches, but it was too late to do anything.  Everything kept getting cancelled!  When I realized that math had disappeared, I got out workbooks we had gotten last summer, 4th grade math for the gifted student.  This went over surprisingly well.
We also continued our sleuthing with Science Sleuths, and had a murder over at Nana's house.

The Murder Scene

Emily diligently took pictures and we logged them, she labelled all the evidence, and drew a quick sketch of the scene.  It was pretty good. 
One of the other major events going on is that we have a sick rattie.  He's very old, so I'm not surprised, but it's hard all the same when you know they are hurting.  Emily is a very good nurse for poor Stormy.  He went to the vet, and the vet trimmed his teeth.  Seems like it would be a good idea, but now he cries whenever he eats.  Just got him some pain meds today, so hopefully he will feel a little better.  The vet thinks the problem is pneumonia, and we are sort of hoping so, since at least that would be treatable.  He's on antibiotics now, and I think he may be drinking less, which is good!  Meantime, Dusty had to come out of Emily's room as pneumonia is contagious to other rats (but not to people).  Dusty is now living on the floor in our kitchen.  Not the ideal place, even for a socially adept rat, which he is not.  He's a shy guy.  Maybe this experience will help him.  So, a very troubling week. 

Emily Feeding Stormy babyfood with medicine.

Can't ignore Dusty!  He gets to see some funny rat pictures online.

Oh, and I did find the math books.  They weren't under the bed or under the table or in the closet or in the garbage can outside or in a cabinet.  They were behind the couch.  I guess they don't like Saxon very much!