Some of our week

We had a long game of kick ball last week. I love that the kids are getting old enough for these kinds of games! We switched up teams every ending. #4 played on his 'mountain' for most of the times. But after awhile he started jumping in and kicking the ball then randomly run the bases.



This guy slept in the shade until just the right time for me to enjoy a break from all the running!


I challenged the big boy to create something from a paper bag(thanks to an idea from mom) He added other bags and became robot man.


This was slightly funny to me when it happened. You know you're the 5th child when.....elephants are stomping around you and you can still get a good sleep!

We made these paint bags today(fyi I don't recommend Glad storage bags for this project-not quite strong enough)
#3 enjoyed writing this way!

#4 enjoyed 'writing' too!

We kicked #1 outside to work on his math. As you can see he's rather happy about it!

#2 concentrating hard on her english


I woke him up, oops!

#5 on his first float at the pool. Despite the face he really enjoyed it!

Gems of the day

#2 said "today is the day between happiness" meaning we did something fun yesterday(pumpkins) and tomorrow she's looking forward to swim lessons:)


We were at our pool today and one of our neighbors came to swim. This is someone we hadn't met before and I'm guessing hasn't met many(any?) homeschoolers. She had this comment after joining us at the pool for awhile. 'Your kids are very talkative for being home schooled.' I must have smirked or laughed or something, I can't say anything when someone makes such a silly comment as that.....Actually I'm sure I did say that yes my children aren't shy, they will talk to anyone. A bit later she says "I guess that is a misconception about homeschoolers." I did agree with her there:)

pumpkins, oh my!

If you you are a friend on facebook then you'll get to see a few pictures of the kids at the pumpkin patch(we were with a group and everyone had name tags) But if not this picture above is the end result. Pumpkin anyone?


Last night I had that strange sensation you get when you think you've forgotten someone. I was out by myself and had noone with me but felt I should look in the back just in case someone(child) was there. I've had that happen too when they are all in the car but someones being extra quiet. Roll call please, must make sure everyone is accounted for. So far I haven't left anyone behind but it's best to be cautious(no I'm not paranoid!)

I found much irony in a recent science experiment. We've been studying Ancient Egypt. The topic of mummies and how they were preserved was brought up. So we were using bread to see how fast mold would grow(you following?) We had one piece of toast, one piece of bread with antiseptic and one regular piece of bread all in there own bags. FYI in this weather bread grows mold fast, we usually keep it in the fridge so it will last. It took FOREVER for that silly old piece of bread to grow mold, if fact we accidentally grew mold in our regular bread that didn't get put in the fridge over the weekend before that one piece grew mold!

on the web

A couple sites I wanted to pass on today

Let's Explore-a fun site with lots of preschool age ideas

To Love, Honor and Vacuum-talking about respect, kids and parenting

Swim time

It's been a busy week, but what week isn't!? I think the humidity and no wind has made it seem longer. Having sick kids too. Today was the first day of swim lessons, we enrolled the older 3 in but #2 didn't swim today as she's been sick since Wednesday night and decided she didn't feel up to it. Of course once we arrived she was upset she didn't bring her suit because she felt better! She watched intently and I'm sure will practice at our pool this week. #1 took to it like a duck in water. (Our kids know the basics of swimming but have never had formal lessons so I put them in the beginner class until the instructor says otherwise) #3 cried once we arrived and he realized he didn't have his floaties. I have been unsuccessful with getting him in the water without the floats. Then he decides to get in the water only to find out the hard way that the shallow water is deeper than our pool at home. Poor kid! But he had a great instructor who put him on her back and went about her business teaching the other kids and slow and steady got #3 swimming around too! Wish I had some pictures but I was too busy making sure #4 didn't fall in. He would lay close to the edge and watch what the other kids were doing. I did find out I can enroll him in too, so next month all 4 will be in the class. They had two teachers today, one worked with the 2 younger ones and the other had 4 older ones.

Calvary Church Family Camp 2009

These are of things from Saturday afternoon.

My big wall climber.


#3 caught some pictures of the boys/men playing football.



Having a Popsicle to cool off.


A bit of kickball with different rules. First ending after someone caught the ball everyone else had to run in line behind them. The kicker got a point for every base he ran before the line formed. Second ending they not only had to get in line after the ball was caught buy also had to pass it under the legs. I missed the third ending:)



We had such a great time-was too busy to take many pictures! We love our church family! So many memories and sharing from the heart.