Recap of our week!

A few more additions to the nursery!

I have been told to curtail my decorating until the shower so this is the first and last thing that will go on the walls so that I can place each new item in the best spot! Ladies, I am minding! Mom finished another sewing project...the bedskirt! The bedskirt matches the curtains and the comforter will have some of the same fabrics with a few other additions! I love the ruffles!

School this week

We talked about Noah's Ark, the letter "B", number "2" (animals went 2 by 2 onto Noah's Ark), things that float (the Ark and that it saved Noah's family and the animals that were on it) and things that sink by picking out items around the house to test in a dishpan.

I also attended my first Great Starts meeting for Frisco HIS on Thursday and learned a lot about scheduling and how to get school done with toddlers and babies. It can be done...I knew that since we had been successful so far but I learned ways to make it better. It was nice to meet some other moms who were beginning to homeschool their children-some at the kindergarten level and some who had just taken their children out of public school to homeschool. Some sweet ladies with the same goals as our family! Above all, I learned from some veterans to stay relaxed and understand that they will learn and to not become overly concerned with every single task as they will learn at their own pace. The woman who spoke to us has three boys in middle school and high school and she has a 4 year old daughter. Her sons are in the competitive football league with the homeschool league HSAA. They had 13 practices this week and I learned that they play some of the top private schools in the area. Clark was happy to hear all of this since he is familiar with the level of competitiveness in the private school setting. One of her boys' coaches played for the Cowboys and she said they are really tough on the boys to get all their home school work done in order to play. The sports leagues will continue to get better and grow as our boys reach that age if she decide to homeschool through high school. Many highschoolers end up taking college credit courses as part of their homeschool so thankfully we won't be teaching things like calculus and other subjects that this!!!

The boys' letter "B" artwork.

CJ and Mark working on their rainbows. The rainbow was to teach the boys about how God sent the rainbow after the flood so that the people would know he loved them and saved them. They turned out so pretty! I love abstract art so much that I hope they continue to use their own creativity when we do our projects. You would think that in order to make a rainbow they they would need to put each color in a nice line across the rainbow but they didn't see it that way. Some things are too pretty to ever get rid of...what will I do with all this art!

Making their letter "B" on the floor following the outline of the tape and tracing it with blocks (for "B") and with other things!

Peyton trying to help and steel the blocks off the "B"!

Yeah!! All finished!

Me with my first, sweet nephew Luke Slater Payne! He has long eyelashes, pretty plump lips and of course loves to cuddle! I love him!