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| So we've started having tea time every day. It's turning out to be a really nice afternoon ritual. The kids always come in wanting their "after quiet time snack" and I dreaded it every day because 1-we often don't have lots of snack food around and for at least half the month we're low on fruit and 2-I'm pretty worn out by 3-4pm. So this helps with many issues. They get their snack, I get a hassle free teaching time to cover one of my favorite subjects-the arts. M-Music/composer study T-Visual Arts/artist study W-Poetry Th-Shakespeare F-Folk Songs and Hymns So far we've done it 3 weeks I think. Oh, the other nice thing is that (2 things in fact) the kids get a chance to practice their manners(who wouldn't be polite to have a slice of that tart!?) and Sennia's post nap meal has to happen then so teaching during that is primo~! |
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| If I ever see a 4 yr old cuter. . . He's the ultimate in 4 yr old little boys. Our family still adores him and we LOVED celebrating his birthday. |
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| He steals our heart with comments like "Isn't Sennia the cutest thing in the whole world. |
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| Matt only got to join us for a little while. I was glad that he was able to give the much anticipated tools to Brig. Afterall, "baby raccoon has lots of tools" so why shouldn't Brigham. |
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| These pictures are from a hummingbird festival we attended. Brig really wanted the zoo but Matt's unexpected work stuff and his forgetting his phone sent us in the wrong direction. It was a lot of fun. There were activities for the kids. In this last picture they're watching the tagged and weighed humming birds be released. |
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| For his birthday he really wanted everyone to dress up as aliens. So we made masks. |
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| And his favorite food happens to be sushi so I obliged and made an enormous number of rolls; 12 or 14 or something. First time that day I was ok that Matt wasn't there:) |
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| Taking Alena to get fitted for new ballet shoes and then to her first class with Ms. Ana was so fun for me. I love being able to give her his. She love ballet so much. Ms. Ana is a pretty amazing teacher. Alena's only sadness is that there aren't any little girls her age in her class. I think that her ballet skills will benefit tremendously from this semester with Ms. Ana though. |
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| This was our first class at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Eli and Luke are dissecting sheeps eyeballs. |
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| Sam did fun weather experiments! |
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| And Alena studies physical Africa and even petted a cockroach! |
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| I got to explore the museum(including the awesome new Egyptian exhibit) with my littles! It was so so much fun. As Alena said, the only bad part was that it ended. |
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| All his friends came for party games, like catching M&M's, |
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| Get to know you games, |
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| the favorite Ware-wolf. |
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| And a little flour tower. |
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| I LOVE having these boys over! ' |
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| Samuel got a boat-load of belt loops and pins at his pack meeting. He has also earned his Wolf and many arrow points but I guess they didn't realize that he needed them. End of of the summer is always award heavy. |
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| I knew when he was little that farming was in Eli's blood. I made him stop pestering his occupied brothers this evening and find his own pursuit of happiness and this is what he decided. His daddy who is supposed to be having a date night with me couldn't help lending a hand. I frequently find the botany book lying around. He spent the morning setting mint leaves to dry in a paper bag |
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| My little Mama brought me a "bub" she swept up all by herself. She was very serious about it and flushed "dee bub". |
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| Meet our 'Knight of Freedom'. Sam is part of an exciting club called 'The Knights of Freedom'. His knighting ceremony happened recently and I was so excited for him. His virtue for the year is confidence. It's perfect. I hope he has a fantastic year. |
