OOur annual counting of the pennies! The kids like to go through all of our change and see how much it adds up to each year. They always hope there’s enough to go do something fun! I’m not sure why they decided to use Emily’s jewelry making organizer for this …

Sometimes Nathan was patient and sometimes he was overly hyper! Here he’s showing off the pomander that he made in preschool botany! It smells YUMMY and he’s had a lot of fun showing it to everyone. This is one of his “hyper” moments where he can hardly wait until Christmas …

The boys have TONS of legos. Well. They don’t “literally” have “tons”, but they do have a bunch. They like to dump them all out on the floor and will spend all afternoon creating things. I can usually handle the mess for a day or two and then they need …

We’ve been having this ongoing discussion with Nathan about not wearing diapers. For the most part he is potty trained except for wearing a diaper at night. However, he has decided that he doesn’t want to do “all” of his business (LOL) in the toilet. We’ve bribed, we’ve punished, we’ve …

Last week Josh went with daddy and Grandpa for the day to help unload the big dump trucks on an out-of-town job we’re doing. Here they come Watching them unload wasn’t enough for Josh! Both of the boys went with daddy and grandpa last weekend to get everything lined up …

Iam not certain why I didn’t post this a few weeks ago, but I just found it in my draft list.. guess I better post it now before spring rolls around (LOL). The field next to us has beets this year. The boys LOVE to watch them work outside our …

Both of the boys like to go out and help daddy and grandp. Josh is getting to the age where he is a BIG help to them. I try to not pay attention to everything he does when helping daddy, but the other day I did sneak out to get …

We didn’t spend much time on this week because we were still finishing up things from our 3 week colonial study. We did read this one book outloud though. Josh took a real interest in guns of the time period and decided to do some research on flint lock guns …

These posts are a little late, but here we go. In Sept we studied the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies. It was fun to look back through pictures of our vacation from last year to the east coast which you can look at by clicking on the vacation label to …

NATHAN: Here are some misc pictures of Nathan. This is a picture of him with his blanket which he takes to co-op. He’s never been a blanket carrying kid, but he likes this one and we leave it in our co-op rolling cart so he has it every week. One …