THE BIRDS

We woke up one morning to the backyard and trees covered in birds.

This is the other side of the yard.

MLK Jr. Park

We got to play at a new park with some church friends.  It was a cool one and we will go back.

Homeschool Video

This was posted by a friend on FB and I had to share it with you guys.  It is funny!

Making Dinner

Mark had to work late and the kids got to choose what they wanted for dinner.  And since it was so easy, I let them prepare it themselves.  They had an assembly line going.

Studying Hard

The kids are in our developing school room. 

The table has already been ordered and is just taking long to get here.

Check out what Alex is doing; cursive.  He's interested in it.

Aliana took his picture all by herself.

So since Alex wrote his name in cursive that means that Tony had as well.

Look at that name.  He did that by himself in blue.  WOW!

Then he had to take my picture since I'm always the one taking pictures.  I must make it look like fun.

On to our Science art project - learning what makes a gallon.

Gallon Guy - Gallon Robot - Gallon Gal.

Can you see how we did it. 

I really love this type of learning; visual and hands-on. 

New Year Celebration

We celebrated the New Year with fondue and appetizers.  Afterwards, we went outside to watch some fireworks with cookies and a fire plus a little exploration with the boys' head lights.

As the boys were outside helping Mark organize the garage, Aliana was inside helping me prepare the feast.

She did awesome. She got out all the food that we were going to eat, she washed the veggies, I cut them up and then she presented them nicely on a plate. Then washed the dishes in the sink.

Learning the garlic press.

Cooling the broccoli after we steamed it.

Organizing the shrimp and scallops.

We had so much fun teaching them about how to cook when using bouillon base fondue with veggies, meat and seafood along with all the dips and then the appetizers and cookies.

What's that noise we hear....fireworks, out the door we went.  Just me and the boys went outside, Aliana was so terrified of the noise she stayed inside with Mark and cried for us to come in.  Getting her to vacuum was a great distraction from the noise for her.