With Grandma and Grandpa M here, we’re celebrating all three girls’ birthdays this week! Susie and Janie enjoyed getting to blow out another candle, and Elizabeth is happy to start her birthday celebrations early.
Category Archive for 'Elizabeth'
This Week in Our Homeschool
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 25th, 2014
Thought I’d give a few more pictures of what our school days have been like… On a normal school day, Elizabeth is tracing her numbers, Tommy is creating a map based on descriptions in his geography book, and Susie is playing with the math rods. And then there are days like yesterday! PJ called me […]
Homeschool Math
Posted in Elizabeth, Friends, Homeschooling, Tommy on Apr 21st, 2014
Ben is staying with us for a couple days, so I’m having to make Tommy’s schoolwork preschooler-friendly. Today we learned greater than/less than/equal to with duplos!
Once upon a time, we worried that Susie wasn’t very verbal. That was silly. She is her big sister’s shadow in everything, and if Elizabeth wants to talk about something, Q does too. Her vocabulary and sentence complexity have grown a ton, though she’s still saying “I goed” and “you comed.” It’s not uncommon for […]
Underwood Farms at Easter time, or How Tacky Can We Be?
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 18th, 2014
Since Ben’s birthday was yesterday, we joined them at Underwood Farms for a playdate party. Unfortunately, it was also spring break, so Underwood decided to jack up their prices and strew tacky Easter eggs everywhere for the week. (Somehow I don’t find enormous pumpkins tacky–I just object to minivan sized Easter baskets.) The farmhand yelled […]
This Week at Charis Classical Academy…
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 16th, 2014
We love, love, love Susan Wise Bauer’s Writing With Ease program. This week, Tommy’s narration and copywork passages are from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (via Green’s King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table). The girls always love listening in on his stories and helping answer the questions, and I decided they […]
Sewing Lessons
Posted in Elizabeth, Homemaking, Homeschooling on Apr 15th, 2014
Elizabeth’s favorite part of “school” is sewing time with Mommy.
Dodgers-Tigers Game with Daddy
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 11th, 2014
Derek took all three big kids to the big game Wednesday night while Janie and I stayed home and convalesced.
We spent the weekend in San Diego. Without Derek.
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Susanna, Tommy on Apr 7th, 2014
Derek had a conference this weekend on campus, and Hannah was flying into San Diego for a concert, with Eleanor driving down to meet up with her, so the kids and I decided to drive down to San Diego, too, and spend a couple nights in a hotel to hang out with our friends. While […]
Janie got her first set of duplos for her birthday from Uncle Matthew, and the big kids are happily showing her how to play with them!