October 2-6

I swear we are on the road to completions lately! Following up on Trinity’s math workbook finishing Emanuel wowed us with his Addition book being done! Well done my boy!

Sleepy smile and all

We have also started our story starters with the twins… I am hoping we can make up a nice series of stories all by the boys written by themselves. I simply check the spelling and correct it underneath. I am finding their creative spelling quite amusing!

I need to type some of these out… not too bad on the mistakes even!

It was rather exciting to actually finish our Lions unit! The assembly was not the quickest but we had a blast doing it! Be sure to check out our resource post HERE.

With October comes Halloween so we had to work on our black paper drawings. This time we are working on smaller images to include in our garland making.

Thursday was another rainy day so out came the rainy day fun bucket, folder games and anything else I could think of to spread across the floor and get the kids playing and learning and keep them from fighting!

Emanuel is working hard on his math! Friday had us working on the BIG math book… the same I did with the twins (a Canadian book), it is rather interesting to see how he picks up on some things faster just for watching his older brothers!

He even drew his own skull thanks to Art for Kids… again check out their link on the right side of my page.

Egypt made another showing with another story.

And Echo built us a house!

Our weekend was a special one! First Saturday of the month – HOME DEPOT! This month the craft of choice was airplanes! Talk about fun!

They were so excited I couldn’t get the pic to focus!!!

Gavin made me a slurpee out of Legos too!!

Sunday School had the twins bringing mustard seeds home in tiny adorable jars.

So not the most exciting weekend… but we make do and make memories! Oh… and eat a melon fresh out of the garden! 

September 30-October 1

Seriously where has the month gone??? Blink and you may just miss September this year!!

Of course Monday meant back to school… and we seem to finally have  gotten a bit of a rhythm to our mornings. So much so that I am finding we zip through things I figured would have taken longer and are having less and less anxiety or questioning of how much must be done or what is next!

We have some lovely art on the go in our ever ongoing journals…

Zander’s church regarding Sunday School

Trinity finished her first month calendar set…

And her 1-12 counting book! Total smiles on that one.

Of course we had to find time to play… Legos in the sunshine… Farms in the basement…

Ending the day with a lovely big brother moment. Gavin offered to brush out Trinity’s hair and did a marvelous job!

And that was that for September moving us into October and our final countdown to the return of Nana and Baba from their 5 weeks of exotic travel. Date home – the 10th!

The first of the month was also the beginning of our Pizza Hut reading program for the year – BookIt. We watched a special author read story HERE.

Our books for the day

We had Miss Echo in on the fun.

There were stories read…

And a science project to reboot… celery did not work so instead we used a carnation with dye.

Lunch was fun and fresh with fruit both canned and freshly cut up.

Our crafting for the day was fingerpainting. Although Echo had to be coerced and Zander refused outright.

I am really excited about the new reading program for our year. This year all 4 of the schooling kids are involved. The twins are trading off on reading to their brother and sister. Emanuel is reading absolute beginner books with me. Trinity is listening to stories with me and then drawing a little picture to share her story in her recording book. We are all going to work on our skills, hear some amazing stories and celebrate our growth as fledgling readers. Watch that library card go!

The potty is useful… as a stool right now

WARNING LOTS OF IMAGES

September 13-15

It was hard to do it but we managed… for over 2 months we kept quiet about it, planned it stealthily… executed it PERFECTLY… and on the morning of the 13th Ken took the twins to pick up the surprise… they didn’t know what hit them!!! Yup, at the airport they picked up… GRANDMA! She received a 3 day vacation, for her birthday, with 5 of her 6 grandchildren! The excitement continued when she walked in the door as the little 3 still did not know!

Waiting for the surprise

We didn’t have a vehicle big enough to cart us all around so the bulk of the vacation was spent at home doing wonderful together things with Grandma, like playing Legos, watching movies, drawing pictures, telling stories.

And doing hair!

Sorting the Grandma American Change she brought the kids

There were Canadian themed books to check out as well! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Mike!

Echo got a hat she wore for days after!

Seriously

There was even time for a Grandma only walk to the park!

Though on Saturday Trinity and Emanuel took Grandma and Daddy to the Harley Davidson store closest to pick up choice items for Grandpa Mike (and sneak in some ice cream!). And that night Mommy and Daddy snuck out for a much needed dinner for two!

Movie time

Calling Grandpa Mike

Sunday MORNING was the first official Sunday School session so Ken took the 4 enrolled and they went solo. Everyone had fun and looked great… except for Zander’s miss buttoned shirt which we will say is a “fashion statement”…

We had fun meals together, checked out the garden… played Lego.

I think it was a good visit! And all managed by staying close to home no less! And don’t forget… more braiding!