Happy Birthday Taylor

I know this post is long overdue. I just run out of time to post pictures lately. Here are some pictures from Taylor's birthday on June 4th. He turned 5 years old.


We enjoyed a day all together as a family bowling,

watching the movie UP in 3D (Anna slept during it).

Taylor is such a big boy now. He is the quieter boy. He was the one who always curled up in my lap in the mornings until my belly got too big during pregnancy and now he's just about too big for my lap. He's such a relaxed little boy with a very deep voice. Happy Birthday Taylor!

Amy

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 Taylor!!!!!!

My "Baby" Taylor turns 3 years old on Monday! I can't believe he is 3 already. He had alot of fun at his Dinosaur Party on Saturday. I had alot of fun making his cake. Taylor is such a sweet, loving child. He still lets his mommy hold him every morning. I guess it's more like he requires his mommy to hold him every morning along with all his stuffed animals that he sleeps with. He is still my early bird but lately has been sleeping past 5:30a.m. No, I'm not a morning person but he isn't either. He just likes to get up early and see me I guess. I think it's my coffee smell! I love to watch him play with his big brother. Big Brother tells him what to say and do and he's like a parrot. Most of the time anyways. Happy Birthday sweet "Baby" Taylor! I love you!!!!