Today DD5 and DS13 had dentist appointments.

We decided to go a little early and try the new sushi place, which is 30 miles closer to our house than the one we usually go to. The employees there came out of the kitchen to gawk at my kids twice. I guess they've never seen sushi-loving, chopstick-master children before. The woman who took our order confirmed their orders twice with each of them and once with me. I don't know, I thought everyone loved sushi!

Then two full fire departments (8 trucks in all) and four police cars went roaring by us as we headed up the road toward the dentist. We got stuck in the drama for about 7 minutes and my kids got a close up look at emergency responders responding beautifully. The officer waved us over and made us park and they shut down the street, broke in the storfront window of the tatoo place that was on fire, and evacuated the building. Once the fire trucks were in position to spray, they let us go.

Then when we got to the dentist, we found out DD had her first x-rays scheduled. She was quite excited with the whole process, and the hygenist was so taken with her verbal skills. She even got to hold her own x-rays and put them up on the light box and turn it on!

Tomorrow we have to go to Montpelier to the Agency of Transportaion and the IRS office to pay taxes on and register some trucks. Since the AOT is downstairs from the Dept. of Ed. and DD is obsessed with "people in Montpelier who will look at my portfolio" I think we will pop upstairs and pay a little visit to the homeschool office. We are also going to go take a quick self-tour of the Capitol Building.

So, two big homeschooling days!

And we even got our math and phonics in today.