A Fall Day With the Sweetest of Friends

I spent the day with Nicole and our families. It was one of those fall days where I am allowed to love on PUPPIES and BABIES! I want a baby so bad!

Nicole and I are trying to start up a "lapbook" business. Pray for us! Even if it bombs it is so much fun. We want to make them on themes we just can't seem to find anywhere else. If you have an idea let us know. Our first one is about Gypsies. Now our lapbooks will be for our age children for now and as they grow I guess the books will expand to include them. :)

We got alot done yesterday. We were so proud of ourselves. Now I have to sit down and do my work on my half. It isn't as fun without her. :(

By the way, if you live in the area and you want a goat or a puppy, let us know! HEE HEE...



I just love this little girl! :)





My crazy oldest!







Mrs. H is such a sweetie. :)

It is so hard to get back into the groove after a day like yesterday. ;)

Elijah wore these spy glasses all day! I think I know what he would like for Christmas. :)







And this is why my back is so sore today! Mrs. E gave me a workout!





Mr. C is just like my boys! It is so neat to see him at work.

Moving Air

Elijah experimented with the energy of moving air. :)

And he found that a soda bottle was not empty and that the air inside of it would prevent him from blowing up the ballon.

Puppy Time

They "Little Eenies" still have regular lessons from the boys. Recently Elijah shared some great reading with his and Remy showed Piper the ways of an author. :)

We love our puppies. :)

Fall Art

Remy:

Elijah:

Elijah's Surface Tension Experiment

We gathered a bowl of water and we gently put the small square of mesh on top of the water.

Elijah then VERY gently placed the cork on top of the mesh.

With a dropper he added a drop of liquid detergent to the water near the little "raft" he had created.

This is what happened....

Now that is called "breaking the tension"! Yea, yea, yea, we are pretty corny here.

Cricketology

Another child-led project in our home took place from Remy's interests. You all know he adores bugs. He checked out this library book on Crickets.

This book led to cricket keeping. We found some habitats and they both made a cricket friend to tend to. It was so fun to see Remy read this book first, all by himself, and then to light a passion for reading it in his brother. Elijah had to read it and then he also had to have a cricket pet.

I really enjoy these two scientists!

My oldest unschooling himself ;)

Elijah has really taken off with educating himself here lately. It is very exciting to watch. One day we took off from school. I felt our day had amounted to, well, not much. Then I saw this!

He said this was a California Quail.

He drew the state, labeled it with important features complete with a key, and he drew what he says was the capitol building. I just took his word for it.

You have to love an environment that enhances that! I am so thankful for homeschooling.

Crab Apple Jelly and a Fall Walk

The boys picked some crab apples and grew tired of it. I took the boys on a walk while my hubby man picked the apples.

Remy made me a very pretty fall arrangement. :)

Little baby apples...

...make a very yummy jelly!

The Candy Monster

A love affair has been going on at my house since trick or treat night...

~*~*~Veteran's Day~*~*~

Today we went to the local aviation museum.

This is a robe presented to one of the men highlighted in the museum.

There was a section for war rations and these recipes were there. We *may* try one.

The boys loved the moon rocks on display. :) I just wanted to touch it!

We also made our free Veteran's Day lapbook. You can find it at http://www.currclick.com/.

I picked up this paper and the boys put it on the back of their lapbooks.

I also called my grandfather and we had a wonderful talk. :) Thankyou to the men and women who are so very disciplined to find the courage to do the wondrous job of keeping us free.

Kites

Remy wants to share the videos he watched about kites today. He had a little kite on his math paper and he loves the treat of watching a youtube video about the drawings on his papers.

This man makes kites out of trash!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwcp4eYoVlk

This MAN is a kite MASTER, YOU MUST watch this one.

And I just love this one. :) Remy says that the Mary Poppins movie is CRAZY!

The Common Loon

Was Eli's new bird to learn about. What neat little guys they are. :) Enjoy!

Bees

Remy had a bee on his math paper...and he of course had to watch a youtube video. :)

Trick or Treat 2009

Elijah dressed up in his pirate costume from last year.

And Remy used one of Elijah's old costumes from long ago. He dressed up as a Ninja Mynci from http://www.neopets.com/.

They are counting loot as I type!

Now we gear up for an 11th Birthday!

A SPoooooKY Halloween Meal!

My little boys are eating as I type! It turned out so cute that I HAD to share!

I tinted the white potatoes green for grass and then I added my oven fried "tombstones" which are really tofu-nuggets with some ketchup for dipping.

The pumpkins are mashed sweet potato with sugar, cinnamin, and butter. Put a little almond sliver for the stem and some parsley for a leaf.

The ghosts are just white mashed potatoe with a little white cheese, butter, and salt. We used icing bags to pipe it all into the designs we wanted. peppercorns are the eyes.

The mac and cheese is spooky too, it is in halloween shapes, thanks to kraft.

It is just so cute...and yummy...too!

Halloween Cookies

They worked on cookies FOREVER!

My little actors...

Remy went back after everyone was done and mixed the icings to make this brownish color. Matthew said that bat was his favorite cookie.

Red Sky

Yesterday, Remy ran screaming through the house that the sky was red, EVERYWHERE!

He had been so worried it would rain the whole time he trick or treated. He proudly exclaimed,"Red sky at night, is a sailors delight! Mommy it will be nice for my trick or treating tomorrow!"

And so far...it is...