Sunday, June 3, 2012

Our busy beavers

We have all been very busy at our house over the last couple of months.

Elsie is growing up, up, up.  She loves to read big books and is very fast.  We took her to the library to ask a librarian for a recommendation of what books to read next she has an exciting mix.


She also just had a birthday (Birthday hugs from the brothers).  


Elsie just finished 3rd grade.  She has loved school and did very well.   She loves her teacher and will miss her.  Her teacher is so creative and gets the kids excited to learn.  We hope next year's teacher will be just as good.  


She joined a choir that practices before school one day each week she had 4 performances so far and gets to perform on the 4th of July.  My favorite was when they performed "Rockin' Robin."

Cy, just finished 1st grade.  Way to go smart-e-pants.  He did well and loved his teacher. 









He loves exploring the great outdoors and loves animals.  We just got chickens for the kids.  It is funny because Elsie's chicken acts like the Mom and Cy's chicken pecks the others, their personalities are matched.  Yesterday we caught a garter snake in a bucket and while I was afraid to pick it up.  Cy played with it, no sweat.


Happy Birthday Cy, what a haul $$$.

Andrew:
Andrew is always talking and always moving.  He has his share of mishaps too.  Here he got in to a tussel with Caleb's head, poor kid.








Andrew loved Pre-school.  He likes to make up stories but always starts or fnishes them by saying that Miss Alby (his teacher) says so, so it is a fact.  

He also learned to read this spring and got to go to raging waters to celebrate his literacy.  






Andrew likes bugs, one day in church I found that he had smuggled in a June Bug, that he played with all of the first hour.  









Caleb is our little angel, he is very polite and loves to copy anything he hears.  He loves Nursury and his friends.  Everybody is his friend.



 We also have a brand new family member, we will introduce her in our next blog post.






Solar Eclipse

On May 20th we had a great time watching the solar eclipse, playing soccer, and eating chocolate on a lazy Sunday afternoon.  We made a pin hole projector and thanks to Angie's preparation we had solar glasses to watch it with.

We were having so much fun we called our friends.  Crystal and Chad (not pictured) and Tim and Yelena joined us.




We noticed the temperature drop during the eclipse.

(You can see the eclipse reflected on the paper)

Books We've Read Recently

  • Fablehaven
  • Harry Potter- We're finally there! Our kids have reached interesting books!
  • How to train your dragon