Too sweet!!

I love how the kids just love their little siblings...especially the baby. The other day Ashton told me that he couldn't stop staring at Mareea "because she's so cute". They often ask me when we're going to have another baby and tell me they would like to have 100 babies! I'm not sure I could handle that :)

Q's first day of school

This is about a week late, but Q had a great first day!

Sweetness

Mareea was crying the other night. She stopped and i figured she had gone back to sleep. Instead, I came upstairs and found this.





They were both sound asleep.

Ashton lost his first tooth

a couple of weeks ago. It's taken me awhile to get to blogging it! He was so cute about it. He actually put the tooth in a bag and put it on the front door to make sure the tooth fairy saw it! The next morning he found a dollar in a Ziploc taped to the door. He inspected it closely to see if "maybe there's another dollar behind this one". I can't believe how big he's getting :(

Park Day

Ashton and Q being silly

"choo choo!" I told them we were making a train.

Handsome young men

Pretty little girl

Homeschool Year 2009-2010 goals.

I made a list of academic goals I want to accomplish this year with each of the kids. It should be interesting to look back at the end of the year and see how many were actually completed! I say this because I often end up switching curriculum during the year. I made this list as a way of helping myself do some lesson plans. If I know what I'm aiming at it's much easier to hit!

Ashton Kindergarten/1st grade (will be 6 Nov. 4th)
MUS alpha completed
rod and staff gr.1 "we learn about God" set completed
Learn and place all the countries in the 7 continents and the planets.
Place the 50 states
Ancient history overview with bibloplan
Apologia Exploring Creation with Zoology 1 (finish book, but not go too in depth)

Landon 4 years old
Saxon K or MUS primer completed (haven't' decided yet)
Finish 100 EZ lessons
Write all 26 letters correctly upper and lower case
Learn some countries in each continent
Learn to place some states in the US
Learn some ancient history and some science from apologia

Thea 2 years old
Sorting and matching
Learn colors
Learn numbers0-10
Count to 20
Recognize shapes
Learn letters and their sounds (letter factory)
Kindermusik
BFIAR read alouds and a project from each book

Family Read Alouds
Little House books
10 P's in a pod
Bible
Five Little Peppers and How they Grew
and I will add more as needed

Bible and other Christian Study
Learn Hymns with "Hymns for a Kid's Heart"
Weekly memory Verse
Daily devotions
Daily bible reading

Mareea's 6 month pictures

Isn't she beautiful? What a blessing she is.

Crawling and sitting up!

Miss Mareea decided that Saturday (July 31) would be a good day to start to crawl and to sit up from lying down. I am amazed that this chunky little baby can get herself around so well at only 6 1/2 months!
Tomorrow we are taking her for her 6 month pictures at the Picture People. I'm very excited to see how they turn out!