Check out the Homeschool Blog!

Another shamelessly short post directing you to go read our Homeschooling Blog... I've actually updated it for all 6 weeks of school that we've completed!!  Did you fall over?  I know, right?!  So, anyway, get back up and go check out what we've been doing in our little homeschool. 

And don't worry.  This blog's getting something soon, too. 

Here are some teasers:

A Dinosaur

A birthday

Sibling love

Cuteness

More cuteness

Summer's OVER??

Well, the calendar says it's not.... but nature seems to disagree.  It's cooling down, leaves are beginning to change, the bugsound is different, nature knows.  Even if humans can't keep up.

So.  Here's our summer in pictures:

Happy 14th birthday! 

We got busted drawing rocket ship goggles on self and brother. 

So, we had rocket ship goggles in our birthday pictures!

Happy 7th birthday!

We went to the pool!! 

We went to STEM camp!  

And preschool camp.

And Bible Camp.

And another Bible Camp.

And another Bible Camp.

And Kindergarten Camp.

And Theater Camp.

We taught another kid to mow the lawn. 

We discovered this tiny dude loves piano. 

We yelled for all kinds of good reason. 

We did OT in the house with a wee little supervisor watching. 

We harvested the gardens.

We learned chores.

We worked with Dad at the Farmhouse.

We harvested some more. 

Happy 5th Birthday!

We ran out of counter space for cucumbers... time to make pickles!

We made Sweet & Spicy Pickles.

We looked cute at the Farmhouse.

We explored some creeks.

We are just such a big girl!

We watched the eclipse with our pinhole projection viewer.

We stole our Mom's clothing and looked so cute she let us keep it.

The farmhouse got a facelift!  She's looking fantastic!

We have a Marching Viking.   He rocks.

We eat cherry tomatoes from the garden in our breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners...

Riley was in a musical... she's Sleepy the Dwarf, lower left front.

And there's our favorite trombone, front and center!  Go Chase! 

Don't forget to check out our homeschool blog in the next few days for our Back to School post!

That's It! We're Done!

So to get totally convoluted here... I'm talking about Homeschool.  On this blog.  We're done school... for now.   The Homeschool blog will get a proper, more-informationy update soon.  No, really.  It will.  Because I'm transferring all of my phone pics now.  And that always makes it easier.

Sitting down in front of a computer has really just not been my thing, hence the gap in posts.  Also, Shelby doesn't allow me much time, since she can tear apart the office in 30 seconds flat by going after the envelope drawer and pulling wires out from everywhere.

The weather has been great.  Meaning we get outside and DO things.

Like this

And this.  It's just dirt.  But, you know.

And just hangin' around.

Shelby is a toddler who can stand up to get dressed and put her own little arms in the armholes on her shirts and fetch me a diaper when asked and do other listening-type stuff.  Which means my head is starting to pop up and finally bob above water, which means we are once again becoming functional in society.

Yeh, she's cute

And trouble

Big trouble

But cute

And adorable

The gardens are planted and fenced and GROWING.  Which is considerably different than last year, when we had lots of IDEAS.

I have zero pics of those yet!

The actual Farmhouse that this blog is named after is starting to look damn good because my husband is awesomely fantastic.

Right?!?

We are at T-Ball.

Wait!  T-Ball is over.... 

And school is DONE.

Portfolios and summaries are DONE

So we took a picture to remember it by

But we still have educational play

And someone still asks to spell, like, a million words a day

Some new play items conveniently double as Occupational Therapy.. since we have several weeks off during summer

 

We had our "Absurd Awards" ceremony with our Homeschool Group.  Since public schools whittle away their end days by awarding for all sorts of nonsense, so did we! 

Look!  A rare picture of Chase!!  

Yeah, we'll start back up sometime after July 1.  After it gets so hot we'd rather be inside.

 And after we've had some time to just chillax.

 And after we've friended a bunch and gone on hikes and splashed in creeks and hit some faraway cool playgrounds.

Tiny Creeker

 But just a little.  Just enough to keep our brains turned on.  Not too much.  'Cuz some people are big ole' high schoolers now with a pretty intense course load and some Credits a-comin'.

I'll give you a hint... it's this guy....

So I just dropped in to say "Hi."


"Hi!"

The real Homeschool recap is coming soon... as soon as I sort those pictures.  Stop by The Homeschooled Goobers blog soon for that.