Time for an update!
This is currently my favorite room in our house. The view of the backyard is really pretty too, although you can't tell from this picture. All I need is an old-fashioned globe, and we would have one studious-looking homeschool room. :)
At a friend's birthday party... it was a Pirate and Princess Fairy party. :) Maddox Bucher is photo-bombing. Abby is once again mad that I'm taking her picture.
A very non-typical homeschool picture:
One Tuesday after CC, I decided we had already missed too many beautiful days in October while we were busy moving, so we stopped at the library to pick up some books, then we went to Glencairn Gardens to walk around, feed the ducks, and do some reading.
Caleb holding his book about Alaska. We sat outside in beautiful 70-degree weather and read about 40-below-zero dark days in Alaska. Yuck!
Playing with the statues at Glencairn:
The next week we enjoyed a perfect fall day at the Charlotte Nature Museum. We had never been there before but everyone loved it.
Micah shaking his fist at the chicken. The chicken gave him a mean little peck earlier when Micah tried to pet it:
The chipmunks were hilarious!
This was right after one of Abby's famous meltdowns. She kept trying to take a toy from Caleb after I warned her not to, and her punishment resulted in her having a 40-minute full-out tantrum. At least it was in the outdoor playground. We just stayed in one side on a picnic table while the boys kept playing. I told her she couldn't leave the picnic table until she was all done fussing. When she started to wind down, I picked her up and we started walking away. Then she said, "Uh oh! I not done fussing!" and started to cry again. So we waited on the picnic table some more. :)
We got a front row seat to a snake getting his once-every-other-week meal. It was quite the event. Afterward, we were walking through the spot where the other snake cages were. Micah was in the room alone when they started opening up EVERY cage and throwing in mice. I just heard him yelling, "Mom!!! Mom!!! They are feeding ALL the snakes!!" He was a little excited to run around from cage to cage watching them all eat their dinner.
The first two-and-a-half weeks of working at Fast Signs, Ben had to work overtime (over 40 hours a week) for training in Charlotte, plus he had to write his sermon for our second preview service and do his other church work. It made for a LOOOONG two-and-a-half weeks, but then we got to go to Maryland and Ohio on vacation (for Thanksgiving) right after that. Perfect timing for a break! When we get back to South Carolina, Ben will start working 30 hours a week in Rock Hill.
Lunch at Chic Fila. Karl was working on putting new countertops in our kitchen so it seemed like a good day to eat out. We also took schoolwork and did most of Micah's work there while Abby and Caleb played in the play area.
Our friend Deb brought us a tub of stuff she had leftover from teaching childcare. Caleb was a little excited about his handwriting book that is all about Alaska!
We got to babysit Joshua for another weekend. Abby helped him beautify.
Playing in the leaves:
Abby dressed herself:
And like any diva, she doesn't like the paparazzi:
Abby woke up with a stomach bug a couple weeks ago. It only lasted less than a day, and no one else got it, thank goodness!
Trying to figure out how to get on the roof to clean the gutters:
Had to upgrade to a bigger ladder:
We served at a community Thanksgiving dinner. I face-painted most of the time. Caleb wanted his face to look like a shark's mouth. One of the Zieber girls painted it for him:
Abby's rainbow:
Micah free-handed drawing the USA. He got bored with it after the east coast, and things got a little out of proportion, but otherwise, he did a great job!
Or homeschool group singing their memory verses:
We learned about the different parts and systems of our body. Each kid got to put together a model of their body:
Our trip to Maryland. We had a lot of delays once we hit the mountains in Virginia (because of snow), but then didn't see snow again until we got to Cooper's Rock. We aren't in South Carolina any more!
Possibly the kids favorite part of Maryland:
Caleb's quote of the weekend: My Dad got a deer and had it hanging up in the machine shed, already skinned. Caleb saw it and said, "Wow, that deer is SUPER dead!"
On to Ohio. We went with Grandma Kaufman to the mall. She treated the kids to a train ride:
We love the little carts at the grocery store just a couple blocks from Wes and Joyce's house. It's always a treat to walk to the store with Grandma.
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