Sleep? What's sleep?

3:43 AM I want to go to sleep!!! Jonas has a bad cold. I gave him Ibuprofen for his fever which is now gone but he is a BEAR and nothing satisfies him. I decided to let him cry it out in his bed for a little, I think he is probably just over-tired because he has not been sleeping well.

I also have a bad cold so this lack of sleep on my part is not helping me any.

Two years ago I found out we were pregnant the first week of school. Last year I got really sick the first week of school. This year, as I have been hoping to get some more organizing done before we start school on Monday, I have a sick boy that has a sick mom!!! Maybe I should start planning to start school the end of July and that will leave extra time for the unexpected!!!

I don't have any pictures yet, but our newest project is working toward adding a little bluegrass to our family program (singing at nursing home).

We purchased instruments for all but Jonas and DVD instructionals to teach us.

Jesse chose fiddle which arrived today. Already he has shown signs of being able to do well. He has taken the books and DVDs and figured a lot out on his own already. I was expecting lots of screeching but not so!!!

Javan wanted the banjo, after watching part of the video I'm confident that he will do well also. We borrowed a banjo to get him started, they are the most expensive of the instruments that we are going to use for starters and I was told that the banjo is an instrument that if you don't put the money into a decent one it sounds like you didn't put the money into a decent one.

Jared and Chad are doing the guitar. Well, Jared and mommy are doing the guitar for now, Chad is willing but it hasn't fit into an evening yet. I'm sure Jared will succeed too if he is willing to build up the calouses on his fingers before giving up. This is where daddy comes in!!! I think daddy would be able to influence Jared better than me on this one.

I chose fiddle for the girls and I. I was told guitar was too much for a 5 year old. I wasn't interested in a bass ukelele so we went with fiddle because it's common to start children on violin between 3 and 5 years old. The only reason I decided to start Jubilee is because you have to have them in violin's that fit them and the place I bought them from will exchange violin's up to the next size if your violin has not been damage other than the normal wear and tear. If I was going to put the money into it later, why not start now!!! I was told that Jubilee is too young to learn songs but she should be able to learn how to hold the fiddle and bow it right.

Fiddle for me because if I as going to teach Jolene I was going to have to know what I was doing!!!


Jonas won!!! It is now 4:34 he was content to watch part of an Answers in Genesis video with me and now I will try to put him back to sleep!!!

Save the frogs!

I commented on Andrea's blog recently, she was commenting about all the dead yellow butterflies on her walk and that she needed to actively do something to save them (ha ha); I commented that I need to head up a Save the Frogs campaign (from the Plattner children that is)!

This is the latest. Jubilee brought me a sippy cup and took the lid off to show me the contents. Imagine my surprise to see a frog!!! Awhile later I put her to bed and shortly thereafter Jolene found Jubilee's new friend on my couch ~ NO sippy cup this time!!!

Sorry I haven't updated in awhile, we have been pretty busy lately. I will try to blog soon with some photo's of our latest project.