It’s hard to believe Ian is already three months old… Or that Sweet Baby Gray turned 2 yesterday! OR that Nate is celebrating his 9th Father’s Day today. Wow.
Much has been happening with our very busy family. Here’s a photo update for you:
You may remember that we bought a used shuttle bus in January… [...]
Ian is settling nicely into our little family. He’s loved and adored and his feet probably won’t hit the floor until he’s 4 or so. I’ll post new photos of him soon.
For now, though, I wanted to leave you all with this little gem of a conversation between Connor (5) and Ferris (3).
Ferris had [...]
Today, while my younger three children napped at home with Dad, I took my three “big boys” to the library.
Thankfully, the round trip drive was uneventful… So much so that a couple hours later, when Connor was praying for dinner, he prayed:
“God, thank you for our food, and our drinks, and our library books. [...]
I need a piece of advice from my fellow homeschooling mamas….
My 4-year-old Connor started Kindergarten curriculum a few weeks ago. He LOVES doing school.
He loves the activities in his books… Coloring, cutting, pasting, reasoning, writing, counting, etc. I think, however, he really loves being included with his big brothers more often.
Either way, he’s [...]
Yesterday, as I mentioned, we took the kids on a field trip. The night before, they didn’t know where we were going. I finally hinted, “It begins with T.”
Connor immediately flew into phonics mode: “T…T… Texas?”
“No,” I chuckled.
“Town Hall?” he asked.
You can’t blame him for trying.
We actually went to a nearby tomato farm! It was [...]
We’re on our way to another homeschool field trip this morning. We had to stop for gas.
This particular station has those newsy/commercial-type TVs above each pump.
Connor watched for a few minutes, then says, “Mommy, why do they only show the news? That doesn’t help you learn about God or the Bible.”
Good point.
Don’t try to follow my train of thought. It derailed awhile back.
1) Speaking of trains, Ferris “rode her potty train to the end” this week. We started with her Special Potty Day last Monday. Yesterday (Monday again) she finished it off by getting 26 stickers (successes) in a row on her chart!! Woo-Hoo.
Her reward was [...]
My kids are always curious about how fast we’re driving. I’m not sure if that’s a normal thing, or if it’s because my husband is a cop and they want to be sure we’re not speeding.
We were all in the van the other day and Connor asked, “Mommy, how fast are we going?”
In [...]
We have this pool that we’d never used. We got it back when we were able to do homebirths. It’s exactly the same size as the one my first three boys were born in.
At any rate, it’d been in our basement for a long time, so we broke it out on Memorial Day and let [...]
Our wonderful, amazing, creative, patient, stellar niece Erica was over for a while yesterday and she captured this moment of our oldest three boys… Connor, Andy, Brady. I couldn’t help but smile when I saw it.
She also made them octopus hot dogs for lunch. She’s the best.