nina and pinta

Thursday May 23rd 2013

we took a trip to Grafton Illinois with our homeschooling group (CHESI) .  I had the two littles with me today and while I did wear my 2 year old and then my 6 month old it was still a challenge (thanks to my dear friend who gave me a helping hand)   

                  I couldn't take pictures so I handed the camera over to my 7 year old. 

Introducing The Niña and the Pinta

by: eon of the fields

 

Si's second birthday

God blessed us with baby number 3 and its his 2nd birthday 

my ginger boy,  full of energy,  giggles and laughter

fiery temper, lots of love.

Sweet hugs and kisses,  teddy bears, blankets,  dragons and swords.

This two year old is full of fun but needs his mama at every turn.  Late night nursing, tears, potty learning, playgrounds and scraped knees.  Running jumping climbing crawling never slowing down. and I decided to get him a bike, like he needed something to help him go faster.....................

First Bike,  thankfully its a little too BIG for him, whew xoxox

Riding with papa, this is amazing! 

Heading home, such a big guy!

5 months

one week old

4 months old

One year old 

Two years old!!

We had Si's birthday party yesterday at the park - how many times did this sweet energetic boy run away .. lets see..  

one..

two -- but the new rain boots slowed him down! 

three.. 

and again (slower with the boots lol!!) 

and again..

grandpa intervened ..he loves his grandpa! 

Sum it up saturday

i'm joining jenny on peasandcarrots with Sum it up Saturday - a recap of our homeschooling week - 

I skipped last week as we had been sick the previous week and didn't do much of anything but lay around the house. 

This week we played catch up,  it seems like we are doing that A lot right now, there's always something going on.  

we caught up on piano lessons,  did a year end math review and worked on another week of MFW

after a long debate and purchasing next years curriculum, We've made the decision to take two years to complete countries and cultures.  I'm ok with us taking our time with each week instead of feeling rushed to get the lessons in and its taken a huge stress off, so we spent another week on south america. 

we are still reading Nate saint, our planner calls for a chapter a day, we are reading several chapters a week instead. ( our rabbit has been joining us for reading sessions)  we are all enjoying this book about a mission pilot,  had a discussion about the dangers of flying in the amazon rain forest. we decided to make paper airplanes again and then flew them outside. 

We took a few field trips to several different parks and enjoyed the weather since it was super nice out. 

Sum it up Saturday

Every Sunday night I'm at the kitchen table until midnight, or later (usually later)  planning the week, copying the pages from our teachers manuel, writing down lessons, gathering supplies and making various todo lists. I got distracted this past Sunday night - my 7 yo stepped on a picture frame in his room. Its a picture of a treasure map, he had taken it down to look at it, placed it on the step stool and then stood on the step stool so he could look at his leopard geckos   He told me that he was thankful he had socks on and that he jumped down as soon as he realized what he had done. I'm thankful that all the glass stayed IN the frame and that he wasn't hurt. what came of this - well im hoping he wont take the pictures off the walls from now on, or atleast wont step on them.  

Monday morning rolls around, and no lessons planned. Its beautiful outside so we spend most of the week out. Apart from math and spanish our lessons were on the go as I never did get to sit down and open the planner up. Mon and tues were spent cleaning up around the yard. Wednesday we took a trip to the zoo and the family vision library in st louis and Thursday we hung out for an hour with our homeschool group for field day, then off to see a musical, Joseph and the Technicolor coat st cedarhurst in mt vernon. We all enjoyed watching the play but were sad that we'd left field day early. I'm currently a stay at home mom, husband and I met 17 years ago and have been married for 11 yrs. We are a family of 6, kit is 10, eon is 7, si is 2 and jbug is 6 months. Our two oldest are Homeschooled using my fathers world countries and cultures, we also add in lapbooking and unit studies. We officially school 4 days a week. Just not always the same four days. Please join us for sum it up Saturdays by linking your blog post in the comments. Cant wait to read about your homeschooling week. t 


Im blogging along with jenny at Peas n Carrots. Jenny shares how her homeschooling week has gone with sum it up Saturdays.

Sum it up Saturday

This week seemed like it was a mess for everyone, maybe its the weather, or the full moon, or who knows. Our classes consisted of the bare basics, a little grammer, brain storming story ideas;  Gideon wants to write about a rain drop, and math drills.  The rest of the week were home economics classes. How to sort and organize laundry. ( this one we do often as the lessons are never retained) how to pick toys up. How to put dishes away so we have clean dishes at super time.  My sons 'good morning mom' card sums this week up well... (front: to mom   inside: momma mad, along with a cute stick figure of me yelling at him..)   Here's to a great weekend.

Sum it up saturday

I'm joining a friend and will be posting 'Sum it up Saturdays' - featuring things big and small that we did during our home school week.   This is week one, I didn't get much time to sit down and type (typing right now with a snoozing baby in my arms) so I mostly just tried to capture the week with photo. I'll try to get some better ones next week. I am excited, blogging about our week will help us to keep on top of our studies.
This week and next will be working on weeks 8 and 9 ECC in my fathers world.

We're taking our sweet time learning different countries and cultures, the past week we were in Brazil. We watched Brazil by new dimension media during nap time got a few projects in, including our reading fair project, straw flutes from the book global art (which were super simple, not messy, and the kids really enjoyed it AND they got to do it by themselves) We read the first few chapters of Nate saint and made paper airplanes.  Started our rain forest science experiment by growing radish seeds, and finished up the week starting on a rain forest diorama - pictures to follow next Saturday  Overall its the first productive week that we've had in a long time. ( i'm including the pics from the reading fair, this was two weeks ago, but including photos because the kids worked so hard AND G read his very first chapter book EVER. The reading fair was with our local home-school group at the library, we left it until the very last min, having 3 months to work on our projects and finishing 10 minutes before leaving the house for the fair!!)  

Here are a few photos
My almost 2 year old had to get in on the school work, this is him trying to write his name.

And then there were six

I'm a mama to 4 amazing Littles. I like to think they take after me ;)    eleven years ago I married the boy I met the day I started my very first job; he is dedicated, hard working, and honest, My best friend and an Awesome father. 
My children are 10, 8, 2 and 6 months. One girl, three boys.  We also have 2 cats, two dogs and one foster cat.  We homeschool; life is busy.