My little sous chef

My life as a Mom of four means each day is it's own roller coaster. We started off the day by going to the park and the lake - which went well. We then had to give the girls medicine for Girardia. Even though we got the medicine mixed into a chocolate syrup, Shkuri was not too happy about taking it, which made for a rather stressful ten minutes as I gave it to her in the syringe and had to hold her so she didn't spit it back out at me (at $30 a dose, she was not going to spit it out).
Today was pretty hot for Olympia, and we played out in the yard in the pool for most of the day, with a brief respite of watching Cinderella for quite time. My very lovely friend Izzy stopped by for a few hours and braved my family for a few hours. Shkuri and Hamda helped me make dinner. They love, love, love to help me prepare food and chop above all else. Normally, I wouldn' t let a six year old anywhere near a knife, but last week I looked at my side to see Shukri chopping away like a trained Parisian Sous Chef. I keep a close eye on her, and she makes cooking dinner fun. I have tried to get the boys to help me - Isaac isn't interested and Elias is still a bit young to do much.
After dinner Isaac was a bit wound up and had gotten in trouble, so I sat with him and read for awhile. We are reading about Ancient Egypt and were reading some Egyptian mythology when I mentioned to him that he was going to start piano next week when school started. He asked me why Shkuri wasn't taking piano, and I told him I thought he would want to do it alone. He told me he thought Shkuri would really like them and she should take them to. I was very excited to hear that - he isn't usually very open and nice to her, and this gave me hope! Tonight I am looking forward to walking to the coffee shop for iced coffee and then plunging into studying .We are going to be at the cabin for labor Day weekend and I have to take a pharmacology exam on cardiac medications before we go (I am in a distance program, and can choose my own dates). Uggh.