August and September...2012

Whew! Where have the last 2 months gone?

We have been so busy with regular old life...school, church, family time...that I can't believe I haven't blogged in 2 months. I have lots to catch up on.

We have been loving school. Our Maggie is an amazing student. In 8 short weeks, she is spelling and reading. It is incredible to be a part of her teaching and learning. I am so thankful for our little school and thankful I get to be her teacher part of the time!

100% on a spelling test!!! Go Mags!

 Speaking of school, we have an official school room now. It has been a work in progress the last month. I have been cleaning out and organizing our entire home. We hosted a garage sale 2 weeks ago and it was so nice to de-clutter and tidy up our home. We made almost $700 too. Yippee! With all of our cleaning we were able to do a "room re-arrange" and moved our playroom upstairs, office to the old playroom and made our old office into the school room. Tons of work! But we are VERY happy with how it all turned out.

Cleaning out feels sooo good!

I am gonna do a post of school room pics in a few days. Can't wait to share.

We were able to do several fun things in August and September, because we have such a flexible school schedule. We decided to join the local Children's Museum. They were hosting a "Grossology" exhibit on the human body. It also has some really fun, hands on exhibits for kiddos of all ages. We joined up with our besties the Carpenters and made a day of it. So thankful to have a local, great learning place to enjoy. We plan to go lots of times over the next year.

Sadie loved the life size "light-bright". 

Glow art... 

Fun with a giant kaleidoscope... 

Love this one of both girls... 

Hoola-fun! 

Fun with wind... 

Checking out the beetles and critters... 

Drew and Mags learning about their body... 

The toot-toot station, got loads of giggles...wonder why? 

Giant operation game...maybe a future nurse? 

Checking out the bed of nails...brave girl, Sadie went before Mags! 

Mags playing on the pony game.

Sea Life Aquarium--Grapevine, Texas

In mid September we joined up with several of our home school buddies and headed the local aquarium. My Mom joined us and I was so thankful to have her help. My girls love ALL things animal. They really enjoyed the sights and it was very educational. 

The best pic I could get of all the kiddos... 

Meeting the octopus... 

Me and my girls... 

They had an amazing room over the shark tank with a glass bottom floor. So cool! 

Hello, Mr. Seahorse! 

Fun, INSIDE the tank! 

At the end there was a "hands" on exhibit where the kids could touch star fish, urchins and hermit crabs.  

We grabbed lunch in the food court and topped the day off with a carousel ride with Gigi!!!!!

So much fun!!!