July 29-31
The end of the weekend and the return of the cousins to their home opened up a new idea… Nana and Baba taking the twins and those cousins camping for 3 days, 2 nights! That left us with Monday as a sole day of school for the twins and the time to pack. Although the grandparents had much more work with their plans than I did readying the 2 boys.
Reading to his almost willing sister
That did not stop us from having some fun in the sun… gotta love a nice sized backyard!
Math
Nature Journals
We were especially appreciative of Art for Kids for their Minions instructions. Just a video, no printable but both Gavin AND Emanuel enjoyed following them and had GREAT results. You can draw your own Minion off of Despicable Me 2 HERE.
We saw the boys off early on the Tuesday… after we made a flying run to get new shoes for Emanuel. A growth spurt had his sneakers to small and his sandals wore out beyond light play use.
Gotta keep getting those new school supplies while they are on sale!
The little ones kept themselves nice and busy… we had computer time…
watching cartoons together…
work books…
you name it we did it.
Back onto Art for Kids
And I finished a new pair of slippers for the ever growing (though slowly) Echo!
The first FULL twin free day saw us just zipping through our half day of schoolwork. We read two books…
drew in our journals and did workbooks…
We took full advantage of our time without big boys on the playset. It was a lot quieter too! Surprise!
I got in enough time to finish up new slippers for EMANUEL! Two for two now, not bad, not bad! Crochetspot.com is my go to place for this pattern.
We ended our evening with a dinosaur themed movie and lots of snuggle time.
I have to say, going down to just 3 kids is a rather huge difference. While we missed the twins, the one on one time with the other 3 was a great experience! 
