Camping

 We went camping at Roosevelt this weekend.  Marcie made the trip with us.  She did really well.  She was very distracted by everything around us and took forever to potty but she didn't have any accidents in the trailer.

 Hiking selfie with Marcie.

Annie's cool leaf.

Eclairs

We are big fans of cooking shows.  We watch Kids Baking Championship, Masterchef Jr and The Great British Baking Show.  Ben has been wanting to make eclairs.  His first attempt failed.  We realized the next day that he halved part of the ingredients but not all of them.  Butter overload!  His second attempt was very successful.  Next he wants to try macarons.

  

CC Week 2

I have lots of pictures of Annie's class from this week because one of the mom's took pics.

 Playing London Bridge while skip counting the 4s.

 Learning the 10 commandments.

 Science experiment about how things float.

 Annie recited the poem Good Night by Victor Hugo for her presentation.

 Learning about mirror images in art.

They completed these star fish and colored them with soft pastels.  Annie's is top middle.

 This is the only picture I have on Mollie Grace's class.

 We stayed during the afternoon to help with childcare during Essentials.  Notice Mollie Grace's face while playing Jenga.

The rest of the Week

 Mollie Grace has been dying to learn how to knit.  We got a book from the library, went to Hobby Lobby for supplies, and then watched several YouTube videos.

 Thursday we went to the Children's Museum.  This is the perfect time for visiting places.  Kids are back in school but they haven't been there long enough to be going on field trips.

This is a dog made out of buttons. Notice the red and green ears, black button eye, and black button nose.

HOKA Cross Country Meet

Ben's first cross country meet was at Christian Brothers High School last Friday night.  They didn't actually run cross country but around the track four times.  He ran in Heat D. (Ben is one of the two white shirts to the right.)  There were 35 runners in each heat ranging from 3rd to 8th grade based on times run at practice.

 Thumbs up as he passed.

He completed his mile in 7:14.

First Day of CC

I really thought I posted first day of CC pics.  Whoops! These pics are from last Tuesday.

 My group headed to class for the first time.

 Mid-morning we added Noble (in an orange shirt).  He was just going to tag along with his mom this year rather than be enrolled in a class.  That lasted about 30 minutes.

 The blank spot on the carpet is for Jonah, who is very shy.  It took him a while to join us.

 Working on basic shapes in art.

Lots of help from Mamas.

 Annie's completed drawing of a plant cell using basic shapes.

 Mollie Grace's class.