Well he's just cute and oh so busy.
My nature loving girl. She was so thrilled when this butterfly just flew up and landed on her. He stayed for the longest time, even flew off and came back to rest in her hand. Our yard is full of a variety of butterflies and we've enjoyed watching them.
Our school curriculum has a cookbook with meals to go with each of the books we do. Lauren loves this, as did Hannah, especially when she can make it into a restaurant. We had some friends over to be "customers". She had a blast being, waitress and chef.
We ended up with a large deck off of our "walkout" basement, which ended up being about 10 feet off the ground. Wasn't sure what we we're going to use it for, and now it's one of our favorite places. The sand and water table has been a huge hit. We also do bubbles, playdough, and plasma car riding. We can also watch the birds, gophers and deer from this spot. Despite Ken's best efforts, grass just won't grow on dirt that's like cement and lots of rocks. So the backyard hasn't been that comfortable to play on, well unless you're a prickly weed or poison ivy. So this deck has been great.
The grass wasn't much better in the front yard, as you can see by the weeds that Aaron is playing in. We opted to sod this with some grass that Ken found that he really likes, a summer zoysia if you're interested. Anyway, it needs to be planted in the summer, so lots of dirt spreading and sod laying later and we have a nice front yard. Aaron really enjoyed the giant mounds of dirt to play in. Perfect for his trucks.
Caleb is turning into quite the tool baby. He loves to help Ken with projects, his favorite being the power drill. Here he's working on his own project. 
Some pictures of Caleb working on attempting to feed himself. He's very interested in doing this, though frequently gets distracted by the fun of it all and forgets to actually get the food to his mouth. He also usually ends up forging his spoon and just using his hands. This time he ended up with an after dinner bath !
Helping out in the kitchen. He loves my pots and pans and has figured out that the shelf rolls out, which he then loves to sit on.
Caleb really likes to snack, especially on Veggie Straws and pretzel sticks. He is so funny because he always likes to have several in each hand and then alternates bites from each.
Sometimes you just gotta sleep. He fell asleep while eating. Also a great shot of his curly hair that likes to stand up on top.
Well you're still not caught up. We've also had a fun surprise party thrown by our NC friends for Hannah and Lauren, a visit from our NC friends and now visiting friends from Germany and many site seeing trips with them. We have an upcoming trip to the beach, my brother's wedding
and starting our participation in a homeschool co-op.
and starting our participation in a homeschool co-op.
Hopefully I'll be able to post some fun pictures soon
