I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Nov 19th, 2013
After dropping Grandma off at LAX on Sunday, we headed over to UCLA for a huge science fair put on by the science departments. Perfect for homeschoolers! The kids got to visit all sorts of booths on things like finding exoplanets, looking at the sun through special telescopes, food chemistry, making ice cream with liquid […]
The kids have enjoyed all the extra chances to go to the park with Grandma this week. Even Janie got in on the swinging!
Lately, I think we’ve had a bunch of funny/cute new developments that I keep meaning to blog about and forget. First, Janie can crawl anywhere now. I’m charging up the camcorder now to get some good video footage today. Susie has suddenly switched out what she calls her big sister. Until last week, it was […]
Mary is smaller than Laura…we went by hair color (and middle name), not by size. Almanzo’s arm is around his future wife, of course. As far as I know, hot dogs didn’t exist in the nineteenth century, but Farmer Boy sure liked to eat, so that’s our tie-in. Traditional “This baby looks good enough to […]
Posted in California, Elizabeth, Friends, Janie, Susanna, Tommy on Oct 25th, 2013
We finally made it for our annual trip to Underwood Farms to get pumpkins!
This picture we took for Laura’s birthday yesterday greatly showcases Tommy’s newest look. The other day, he taped something in his hair to play astronaut. When it came time to take it out, it hurt too much to pull, so he just found some scissors and cut it out. Now he has a bald spot […]
Posted in Elizabeth, Homeschooling, Tommy on Oct 19th, 2013
This week’s anatomy lesson had us making a model of blood with corn syrup, red hots, dried beans, and split peas. Then a coloring page reinforced the main four components of blood. And this is as much blood as I can handle teaching. We’ll be outsourcing to Grandma Willett once they get up to looking […]