THURSDAY'S THOUGHTS

I am now at http://www.abakersblogging.blogspot.com

This new update at homeschool blogger is what helped make my decision.

Here are a few pics from our fire station tour. I didn’t put all of them because most had our friends’ kids too  and I wouldn’t put their pics up without permission.

Here is a door that was in a fire. It separated the living room from a bedroom. The fire was on the living room side.

And here is the side of the door that was on the bedroom side.

Having the door shut saved the life of the man that was in the bedroom.
My kids next to a firefighter all gussied up in his fire duds. If you call a Policeman "officer", What do you call a firefighter (if he’s not the captain or the chief?)

This pic was difficult to take because of the reflective stripes!

Here is Faith listening
And, finally back into the van as Jr. firefighters.
We are planning some more field trips. We are not an official Co-op or even homeschool support group, just 3 moms who want to do fun stuff with our kids and each other!

DID I MENTION WE ARE REDOING OUR SCHOOL ROOM?
I’ll be including some before and after pics! Tonight, Pat went out and bought 3 TV’s with built in DVD players and you bet I had labels made before the remotes were even out of the plastic! We are talking about getting a magnetic white board where I can hang my pocket chart calendar and write out our schedule. I LOVE pocket charts! I think it’s one of those die hard things of former classroom teachers who homeschool their own kids! Gotta have the blue pocket charts!

We bunked the boys together tonight.

After getting settled ( some hollering and panic, etc….) all went well for a good few hours, then about 1:15 am while I was playing on my laptop here, I heard giggling.

I chose not to stop it. Pat went in and told Isaiah to be quiet. I wanted him to deal with it as Elijah would get upset that Mama’s in the room and NOT coddling (ahem,…cuddling ) him.

I told Pat that I figured that it was a "brotherhood" thing not to interuppted by Mama.
Hey! I did it!
Here are the "big" kids watching "Farm Math" for school!
We are going to redo the school room tomorrow (Sat) and they will each have their own TV/DVD player combo in there—It’s amazing how much they fight over the angle of the screen so that they can each see better!

I’m headed off to dreamland now, but I had to post this next pic! I am immediately reminded of an old 60′s girl goup that sang, "….Mama said there’d be days like this…"

Oh and we went to the fire station today… will post pics later! Faith was disappointed that they did not have Dalmation puppies, but I think she enjoyed the field tip anyway.
Note to me: Choose direct link option in photoucket, choose picture at top. paste URL, Click "insert image"
Because I know that I will forget how I got these pics in!

"The hen sits"

Faith: I can’t read that.
 me: yes, you can. You’ve read every word before.
 Fatih tries again, gets stuck on sits.
me: ( covering the last s) try this.
Faith: sit. I uncover the last s
Faith: The hen … sits.
me: Great job

Faith frowns. "The hen can’t sit. It can’t lay any more eggs. God has already given it all the eggs it needs."

me: Well, maybe she isn’t trying to lay eggs. Maybe she’s been chasing her chicks around all day and just needs a rest like people moms.

 Faith looks at me like I’m quite the cluck myself and she’s obviously not buying that but at least being courteous. Yesterday, she had trouble with the /e/ sound in "eggs" because we don’t SAY ‘/e/ggs’. We say ‘/a/ggs" (with a long a sound). We skipped the eggs and used the elephant picture as our standard for the day. The things mom’s need to say to get over those learning bumps.

Click the link Below to see Elijah’s first year!

Happy birthday Elijah