Remy's Reads a Story

We had a normal day here. But the cold decided to visit us once again. BURRR...

Remy read this story today that I printed out and then I had him draw a picture about it.

What I had in mind was that the mat was just not big enough for both Liz and Jan. Remy thought Jan was just too fat! HEE HEE!

We also went to the library and I have to say one of my favorite things to do is to refill the library book shelf in our living room with new books.

I got books on the next "Story of the World" unit. I am so looking forward to reading the classic written stories of "Arabian Nights" with the boys. My mother loved those stories when I was a little girl. Which gave me a new idea for a gift for her when needed. :)

Eli got more gem books. But to my surprise he got NEW books! His gem obsession now includes birds! Yay!

Remy of course borrowed books on frogs, well what he calls amphibians. I love hearing that word coming out of his little mouth. :)

I also got some more reading books for Remy and some story ones for me to read to him.

The public library is really one of the governments BEST contributions. Really, why do we need confining public school when we have the LIBRARY????

A crazy boy, a walk, a robot, and a spring day.

I want to start this post out with a photo that is just so Remy. He is really one of my favorite people ever. The child is brilliant! In this photo he has on his skeleton jammies that are like 2 sized too small, but he will not let them go. He loves the human body and these jammies are a favorite. With the jammies he has a camera, gloves, bear slippers, and a dino hoodie. Only Remy could pull this off!

This was on Friday Morning. Here he is later...playing ball with Reese.

On Saturday I took the boys for a walk. They took pictures of flowers, rocks, etc. The weather was great.

When daddy came home he helped them make a robot from a kit Remy got for Christmas from his Grandparents. He was so excited that he was shaking towards the end. Hee heee...

Sunday rolled around and daddy helped the boys tend to the rocks in the rock tumbler. It was finally time to do step 2. Word of wisdom, don't get a rock tumbler. It is so loud and annoying.

When daddy went to work we went to work on some of our "Story of the World" history. We finished up on mummies. We went back and forth on if we would mummify a chicken or an apple. And thanks to Sherri we used this site, along with books and stories.

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/ED/mummy.html

Eli and Remy colored a page of pyramids and the sphinx.

And here we are to the current day. :) It was 75 degrees here. Perfect weather.

We got daddy off to work and then we had lunch and school outside. :) And now I see why the boys love it so much. From lunch until dinner we were outside. It was really an experience. I couldn't help but think of the hot days that will melt us and the biting insects in the days ahead. But for today, he was like the garden Adam and Eve lived in.

Even the birdie did school outside with Remy. :)

The boys BEGGED for swimming today. But the water wasn't even 55 degrees.

Signs of Spring were all around. New life is just waiting for the chance to jump out and live! I can't wait to see the trees with new leaves.

We are looking forward to the rest of the week. Daddy has off two days so we may not be around as much. Eli should finish off his core stuff in just 4 more days!

Rain, Rain, and MORE Rain!

I was blessed with a dark and rainy day again. It just makes for the sweetest of school days. We take things slowly and have a mellow kind of day.

This morning before I even awoke Eli went and of his own discipline completed most of his work by himself. I only had to do math, reading, and his spelling test! He told Matthew that he was doing it so that I would have more time to do something I wanted to do! Can you believe that?

Matthew has had employees that can't self motivate or start and complete a task on their own. He says this skill is severly lacking in the people he has coming out of the school system and into his store for work. My heart was all a pitter patter with love and delight for my oldest.

I talked to him as he did his mathsheet.

And here he is ALL DONE! Ahhhh sweet accomplishments! I think he needs a trim so I can see his sweet eyes. :)

Elijah has been studying Robins on his own. And today after the rainpour he spotted 2 Robins out on the back lawn looking for food. He wondered aloud if they had a hard time keeping the eggs dry. He informs me that a Robin egg cannot get wet, not even a speck, or they don't hatch! I didn't know this!

Which leads me to say that another plus about homeschooling is that my children are learning to find what they want to learn, learn it, and then use it in everyday situations. You may think learning about a Robin is not a big deal. But how many 9 year olds do you see worrying about how the Robin's and their eggs faired in the huge rain storm we had. And then teach their parents a bit of Robin trivia? Not many, I know that to be sure!

Remy did 2 days of lessons and just amazes me! I have looked ahead and I don't see him learning anything new for a few days. He knows all of his letter sounds, and he can read simple things like (Mom sat on a log. or Ben will feed the dog.). He has simple addition down PAT! And can tell time by the hour. His penmanship is very pretty. He can learn anything pertaining to history and science. And through our lapbook attempt he is obsessed with Martin Luther King. Hee hee...

If he keeps this progress up the way he is, he will be starting 1st grade when he *would* be starting kinder. His motivation at this age astounds me.

I did help him make his Pilgrim hat today. He begged me to help him make the girl one so he could put it on Eli. Hee hee...

Serious Pilgrim...

Smiling Pilgrim...

Remy did play with Dakota today, but they both got in plenty of time with Beatrix. She is so fat and cuddly.

He started this thing today where he put my hair thingy in his hair and struted around chanting, "I'm the Queen of the house". Silly REMY GAGE!

Daddy's Day Off and Sick Days in the Future...

Mister Mattmos Man was off of work yesterday. He edited photos while the boys and I had some school time before Sabrina and the boys arrived for a visit.

Eli tried his best to do his school work with Dakota on his arm.

And once Mikey showed up the boys showed him how to make a bow. They made him a little bitty one.

I had to snap a few photos of our Tucker. He is getting so FAT and BIG ACTING!

And today Matthew was back at work but he was very late...he and I are getting sick! WAAAHHHHHH! Can I pitch a fit????

The highlight of the day was watching Remy this morning with Dakota.

Here is the video. If you listen you can hear Dakota say, "Hello Dakota"! And Remy talks about "real" school and if he could bring his pet bird everyday. Hee hee...

Digging in a Pyramid Rock

We had a WONDERFUL Monday! Lots was accomplished in the lab *cough* we mean school. Hee hee... These little guys are just getting TOO big for their skulls! Big old brains!

They started off the day with time with Daddy and they dug into these little pyramid rocks that we found at walmart when my family was here to visit. They were only .88 cents. Good buy. :)

Remy's had a skull inside and Eli's had a coin inside.

Eli was just on a roll today. He wrote two creative stories today with prompts. The first one was about his shoes coming to life and eating a bug.

He then wrote another story about himself as a kite. Here it is...

If I were a kite I'd fly in the sky. Way up high in the sky. Going up is hard, but down is easy. So I try my best.

He also said I was one of the most beautiful things he had ever seen. The other things were flowers and birds. :) To know that to him I compare with the beauty of flowers and birds is just SWEET!

Remy did his school as well. And then begged me to do just 5 more with him. I put him off and said that maybe we would do 1 more later. But he got busy with dinner and Eli and forgot! Whew!

He finished up his pilgrim booklet. Yea, we don't ever seem to get stuff done when we "should", but hey he knew what he was talking about. So I guess it is okay the little craft was late. We did do other things during Thanksgiving.

He did some hands on math stuff today.

We made a "chicken" Spinach and Olive pizza tonight for dinner. I used the Quorn nuggets for the "chicken". The kids ATE it up! It was extremely Yummy.

On a more personal note I had to share something that I love about my hubby. When I went to cook today I saw that the sea salt shaker had been refilled. I think in the 10 years we have been married that I have only refilled it 2-3 times. He just always does it. I know it is simple, but I love this!

Also, we had the store meeting here last night. Matt's employee's made a HUGE deal on how pretty Mattmos and I were when we met. Here is a picture of us when we were dating. Years ago...

And to close out...this is the magazine that made my veggie diet possible! Everything we make out of it is YUMMY and good for you. I could have never become the veggie cooker I am without it.

www.vegetariantimes.com

Okay, that is all for today...

Matthew is off tomorrow and Brina will be buy for a small visit. I may or may not be here tomorrow night. :)

A weekend with the Lundell's

We had a WONDERFUL weekend. Friday night Matthew played with the boys and I got these really GREAT photos of Remy hanging upside down.

He played with Bunny for a while, Bunny now has a name! Beatrix! Matthew named her. She loved this blanket that was in the floor.

She BEGS to get out and loves to run around picking whose lap she will grace with her presence. :) Very sweet girl, I am so very thankful she is still with us.

Here are some photos of Remy that night...he is such a ham.

Saturday we went to Mrs. Sherri's house for her daughter Madison's bday party. It was the most fun we have had in a long time. I was able to meet Sherri's twin sister and to see them together is such a blast! They were both such a blessing to me yesterday. I enjoyed my time with them. They are one of those few people in life that you meet and click with. Being with them is easy and it refills your cup for many more days. Vicki has a little son named Landon who is Remy's age and I could have watched him play all night. He is really drawn to music and I bet that he has something to do with music as a grown man.

If you want to stop by Sherri's blog you will be in for a treat: http://ourplaceourplace.blogspot.com/

My boys were SUPER creative today. They made bows and arrows out of stick and rubber bands! Enjoy the photos and video!

How much they enjoyed this!

Tonight I made dinner for Matthew's store meeting he held here at the house. It was very yummy and everyone had a good time. They didn't leave until 9pm! I was a little sad to see them go.

I can't wait for the new week of school! I sure hope that my core stuff from abeka is printed and shipped this week. They are behind on the "3rd" grade stuff. I can't wait! Eli wants to see his new stuff too.