January was yet another busy month. We got back into the routine of school, co-op, and L'il Girl's 2nd semester art classes. Gymnastics is year round, so there was no break there.
We had a camp-in for American Heritage Girls on January 8th. The girls were working on their cake decorating badge. They had to bake a cake and the younger girls just had to ice and decorate it. Big Girl had to make her icing, make a cake, cut it into shapes, and then decorate it. After the cake decorating fun, they set up their sleeping bags in the church auditorium and camped in for the night.
Homeschooling is going pretty well over all. I have started teaching our oldest boy who will be 4 this Saturday. We've been working on letter sounds and starting to learn some sight words. He is eager to learn and asks to do his school.
The weekend before last we had our first snowfall of the year. It was pretty, but because of the mix of freezing rain and snow, it weighed down the trees and we ended up losing one of our Leyland Cyprus trees beside the house. Thankfully it didn't hit our house or our neighbor's house. We'll probably be having a big bonfire this weekend.
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| New Year's Weekend - we spent all of Saturday outside with a bonfire and then some bike riding. |
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| The part you don't see is him wiping his mouth off right after the kiss. |
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| L'il Girl teaching the boys their letter sounds |
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| Making her cake for her cake decorating badge |
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| the finished product |
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| Sunday morning before church |
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| missing one sister who was still getting ready for church |
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| Our youngest girl with her co-op class |
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| our stair-steps |
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| My first attempt at making homemade chapstick. Here are all the ingredients. |
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| I was pleasantly surprised at how good it turned out. I learned a few things that I need to tweak next time around too. |
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| Taking his coloring seriously |
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| They discovered how much fun our back hill is. |
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| A visit with my grandparents |
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| Waiting for his dental checkup |
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| still waiting and finding a way to pass the time :-) |
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| waiting for x-rays - he was such a big boy and did a great job |
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| All done and a great report from the dentist! That is a sugar free lollipop by the way. |
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| one of our girl's gymnastic practices |
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| the downed tree |
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| he was helping me clear debri |
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| he was not impressed by the snow |
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| the path in our woods |
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| he fell asleep on the way to the grocery store and this is how he shopped |
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| visit to the children's museum |
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| trying to do what his sister does - he's actually pretty good too |
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| Only 11 to 12 more years before this becomes reality |
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| ready for her gymnastics performance |
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| crazy hair post performance |
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| AHG Badge Ceremony this past Friday |
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| Missing Big Girl's photo because she didn't pause long enough for my camera to focus |
Thanks so much for sharing all the pictures and for all the posts! I know it takes a lot of time to do all that and that is something you don't have very much of. Loved seeing all of them.
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