Wednesday Love

Here's a post about some things I am really loving lately!


This is a razor rip rider.  Our kids love to ride bikes and scooters with the neighbors in the alley out back.  One of their friends had this and they just loved it when he would share it.  I got it for Landon for his birthday and everyone wants to use it outside.  I'm about to order another one.  I LOVE that it is very, very sturdy and I dont' have to worry about the wheels popping.  Dan loves it, too.  Don't tell him I told you, but he likes to ride it with the kids.  It reminds me of the old fashioned Big Wheels!!
Remember the post awhile back about us getting bikes for the kids?  Well, they are sitting under our lean to either bent or with popped tires.  I don't know if they are just crappy or what, but Dan was using like 2 hours of his weekend to fix bikes just to have them broken again Monday.  I'm over it and so frustrated!  Anyway, the Rip Rider is "sturdy steal construction" and we are thankful it does not break on us no matter how hard it's ridden!!


These Melissa and Doug paint cups are awesome!  We use these for all sorts of different projects.  When I make homemade sidewalk chalk paint I put it in these so it won't spill.  When the girls use watercolors and need a cup to rinse their brushes I give them one of these with water in it.  No more do we have spilled water all over the table while water color painting!  Amazon has them for a great price and I'm considering getting some more.  With 4 of the kids outside wanting to paint the sidewalk, they can sometimes get frustrated with only have 4 cups. 



We slow-started school last week.  We started with just Explode the Code and math.  I just love Explode the Code.  Mareea and Thea are using their preschool books and Ashton and Landon use the above books.  They are simple little phonics books that really, really help the kids with their reading and spelling.  I have them do 2 pages a day and it only takes them a few minutes.  Love!!  I don't know what I'll do when Ashton finishes the last book this year! 
This week we added Language to our work and next week (or the week after) I hope to start My Father's World.  I want to have things going a little bit so that when the baby comes we will be in a routine.