Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to my T! I can't believe you are 6 years old already. I still remember when you were born how tiny you were. I was so very scared for you but wanted to do what was best for you. Now you have finished your Kindergarten year and moving into first grade. I am amazed at what you've learned. You are so very smart. I hope that one day you will be just like your dad.
Happy Birthday my big boy!

Love,

Mommy

Park day!

Today we spent some time at a local park. The boys really enjoyed playing at a different park with their friends. We took the opportunity to take lots of pictures so that we could enter a contest! "I'm entering the Fall Five Kodak Printer Give-Away at Sprittibee's Blog. Kodak and Sprittibee are giving away an EasyShare 5300 printer!" Little T even took some of his own photos. I don't usually hand over my camera but Spirttibee asked us to include them. Here are a few pictures that Little T took.

As you can see he's a natural! Here is the finished project. We started making a Alphabet mini scrapbook last year. Because I didn't want to run to the store to print pictures we kinda stopped after D. Hopefully we will finish it this year. I skipped ahead to the Letter P and then we used ordinal numbers to rate his favorite things to do at the park. We are going over ordinal numbers in our school work right now so I jumped at the chance to reinforce it.

Since this isn't really clear, because I also don't have a scanner, I'll explain the pictures. 1st is playing at the park with Friends, 2nd is the bridge, 3rd is the firepole, 4th is feeding the Ducks and geese (mostly because he liked taking pictures of them), 5th is the spiderweb climber, and 6th is the slide (it was hot!).

We have been having lots of fun doing school and also on the field trips. We really enjoyed adding another fun item to our learning adventure! Happy Fall Ya'll!

Amy

First "Official" Day of School

Today is T's first "official" day of school. We have been doing schoolwork since last April whenever we could fit it in. But, as of today we are truly Homeschooling. We have been using this curriculum. I am really enjoying the way it's laid out clearly and full of active fun ideas. We have actually done 8 weeks total since last spring. So, I decided to set a routine by starting with a prayer and saying the pledge. T held our flag today since it's really his first "official day" of school.

The boys have both been saying the pledge at Awana so they already know it.

This is Taylor doing some stringwork. He is stringing beads on a shoelace while T does his Math book. I found great ideas for what to do with Taylor while T is doing school here. This is also something T can't wait to do.

We did get off to a great start this morning. I even had time for P.E. for myself. I know it's supposed to be for the kids but I'm the one trying to get into shape! I am really looking forward to the adventure of learning together. Maybe one of these days I'll post why we have chosen to homeschool.

Amy

Summer

I thought I would share pictures from this morning. I decided to take my camera and play around with the sports setting. These are some of the results.

Amy

Help!!!! Help!!!!! Help!!!!!

We need your help. My boys are in a Chick-fil-A contest and we need your help to get them into the top 40. Vote using all e-mail addresses that you have and spread the word to your friends to vote. People we LOVE FREE CHICKEN!!!!! We NEED FREE CHICKEN!!!!! HELP!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!! You can vote for T here. You can vote for Taylor here. My Thanks to all who I have e-mailed and have voted already and to those of you who read this and vote. You don't have to fill in all your info and uncheck the box to keep from getting regular e-mails. Also please check your e-mail to complete the vote.

THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU THANK-YOU!!!!

Amy

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to T!!!!!!!!

My T is 5 years old today! This is his sleepy head this morning. I still remember 5 years ago when I knew that I would be having him. The nurse was pushing the I.V. cart in the room and that's the moment I knew they were keeping me. I had went in the night before with contractions. I was only 36 weeks along. The dr. had explained that if the medicine they gave me to stop my contractions didn't work they would induce the next morning. So, my contractions stayed all night and T made an appearance the next day on the 17th of July 2002. It sure changed my world. Alot of things went wrong during delivery and afterward but T is very healthy now! Happy birthday T!!!!!! I love you!