Day 110 Hard to remember...

Not sure what all happened today, but Abishai and I did take a walk to grocery store and back.  Quite chilly though, poor little Canadian.

Day 109 Graphing Equations

For those who don't know, I LOVE math!  Seriously, I do, especially Algebra.  So why is it so difficult to teach it? I don't know, but Benaiah is finally catching on to this whole graphing equations thing.  We use Math-U-See for our math curriculum and although it's an older version, I still like it because it takes us step by step as we progress through the lessons.

And that's all she wrote!

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Day 108 Short/No Naps

Well, today was full as always, and I didn't get a nap! Oh well, the art supplies project is nearly finished! I couldn't exactly leave it undone for long because it would get in the way in the dining room and we have a toddler who loves to get into everything!  Keturah immediately painted when we got home from church today.  So, I know I made the right choice by making this project a priority over some other projects that have been on my list for months (and a couple for years).

Someone brought in a cake that they won at an auction or something that looks like a burger in honor of PEI Burger Love!  Of course I couldn't eat it, but Abishai and Justin loved it!

The cutest boy in town, period.

A "just because" gift.  Photography credit goes to Justin.

A dozen red roses!

I found a perfect spot for Abishai and his love for seeing what's going on outside! We used to have some gorgeous wall of windows in our old house and all the kids loved watching the world go by.  It's a little more difficult here, but now we have a temporary solution.

Crazy kid that didn't know when or what he wanted to eat.  He finally settled on a good book with a snack on Gramma Howell's childhood rocking chair that Keturah decked out with Frozen stickers.

Not much else to write tonight.  Definitely not feeling super creative.  But be sure to check out my friend's blog over at They Call Me Blessed  She's doing a 31 Days of Reasons We Love Homeschooling blog hop this month.  One of my friends from our homeschool co cop blogged today!  So go check it out! Thanks!

Day 107 Saturday Projects

We all get into different things on our Saturdays.  It's the one day I don't "homeschool" or "prepare for homeschool."  Instead the kids get to do whatever and I try to focus on a project.  I spent a couple of hrs puttering through our art supplies.  I was only half done but Abishai woke up and my back was hurting.  My goal is to have most things available especially for Keturah now that she is old enough to keep things neat without my help.  You'll see their projects of the day below.

Abishai's Project: How do you get out of the Lego box?

After having lots of time on Minecraft lately, Justin's Project: A Steve costume!

Mommy's Project: Needs to be sorted

Mommy's project: hopefully half of the supplies we keep will stay in here.

Mommy's project: a little bit sorted

Mommy's project: half music books (that don't fit on her two shelves of piano music) and art books that will need to be combined with other books I find.

Cute picture of our resident artist: Keturah

Keturah's projects: Not 5 minutes after I found the glitter glue.

Justin's other project: Lego Minecraft Steve going down a roller coaster?

Not pictured: Benaiah's Project: How many video games can I win today? And: How can I rearrange my iPod icons again? Lol.  Jared's projects: Attend a leadership retreat at MCC (the college) and play peek a boo with the baby.

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Day 106 Deja vu

Yes, deja vu has it's origins in French, and French being a 2nd language in Canada (or something like that), I figured it was fun to use for a title.  I'm not going to nit pick the spelling and special symbols.  Anyway,...

De ja vu, just your typical day at home.  April 15th, and there's snow falling.  Lots of pictures of the toddler who barely stops for said pictures now that he has learned to run away.  School, appointments, screen time, chores.  Typical routine stuff.  But that's what makes the world spin, right?  So, without further adieu (lol),...

A homeschool experiment from 3 years ago, neglected in the basement.  Maybe salt crystals? Anyway, I promised myself I would throw it away AFTER I practiced my macro photography, so this is what I came up with (it was only lying around for 1 week before I got to it! Yeah!)

Pretty salt crystals, but oh so hard to capture on film!

This little nugget had a blast helping Mommy fill the dog food cans.  He played in them like they were a sandbox! He was so excited!  And yes, he did try to eat them again.  Blech!

Abishai did help get pieces into the buckets and then he transferred them back to the bag.  I didn't tell him what to do, but he observed and copied.  Yeah!

Snow on April 15

As always, Abishai tries his hardest to do whatever his siblings are up to.  He had scrambled up a couple of Lego boxes before any of us saw him to do it and we were all right there!  I had Justin watch him while I grabbed my phone to take the picture.  Sigh. This kid.  Cute, cuddly, and crazy!

Day 105 Life to the Full

Another one of those days where life was full, and no time to pick up a camera.  I got a ton of errands done dragging around my favorite man child/slave laborer.

He insisted he'd carry it all the way out to the car (he didn't but he sure tried!)

Speaking of the man child, he's hurtling toward adulthood.  With help from his Grandpa (who is a professor of undergrad and grad students), Benaiah accomplished writing and rewriting a 12 page, 3,000 word report on "Miracles in Exodus" for Grandpa's Religion Class as an 8TH GRADER!!!!!  Phew! I'm so glad that we have Grandpa to help teach Bible AND help teach writing to this "young" one.

12 pages!

No grits can be found on this Island!  So, I'm going with cream of rice for a different hot cereal instead of oatmeal.  Check out how small this box is!

Some creatures are just obsessed with going outside.

The days are finally getting longer and brighter!

Gorgeous sunset that bathed the whole neighborhood in purple and pinks and blues.

Day 104 Outside!

One word today: outside! Ok, it was still only 45 degrees, but it felt glorious! If you even whisper the words, "outside' or "go bye bye" Abishai sprints to the door!  And if we don't let him out, he protests!  Even when he was cold and shivering, he didn't want to come in!  Justin spent over 2 hrs outside and Keturah was also out for most of the time.  It was still a bit muddy but we got a couple of bikes out and the swing for Abishai.  And Benaiah got to take a long 40 minute walk with Jared for some man to man time as well.  Yeah!