More Adventures

While Mark was out of town, we went on some adventures a couple of times.

Pointing out what we saw in each cloud while we ate dinner.

Now it's off to feed the ducks their dinner.

On another day we went to a different park where Aliana spotted a helpless kite stuck in the tree.  She told me, "Momma, I help kite.  Kite stuck tree. Ana b..i..g (as she stretches her arms high).  Ana help."  Ok, go help the kite. 

She's trying.

When she got there I could hear her grunting trying to reach that kite. 

Scaling the lava.

Climbing up the castle...our little princess!

Climbing the spider web to the top.

Here comes the Kid Tornado.

Grammy Time

Grammy and Mr.Roger came to visit for a couple days.  We ventured out on Saturday to explore some caves.  It turned out many others had the same thought and we were going to have to wait in line to enter the caves so we went to the park to play and of course have a picnic.  That was fun too, but we all would have loved to see something new and exciting.

We were on own way to the cave entrance with excitement roaring.

I do have to say the kids and I (probably everyone to say the least) was disappointed that we had to leave.  Their process needed to be more organized for the public.  Very many people left quite upset.

But we are all still happy!

Private Breakfast for 2

Aliana woke up early soooo hungry. 

So I placed her outside to have breakfast (it's now gorgeous in the a.m.), she then invited her daddy to sit with her to eat before he left for work.

It was so cute to see them both just chatting away eating together.

Ancient Egyptians-honest!!

We are studying the Ancient Egyptians - what they wore, how they made them and the reasoning behind it. 

A part of the lesson was how they made their jewelry.  So Alex made an Egyptian collar that both men and women wore to show their status in the community; he also got the idea that he was to then look like an Egyptian.  That is the reason behind the black eyes...they were temporarily Egyptians for the night.  (and they still looked like them a little bit the next morning.)

Alex is showing his dominance like King Tut did.  (We do know that he was a bad king.)

Aliana loved her eyes.  She tried to protect them in the shower from the water :-)

Tony liked the eyes but showed a different side that the make-up brought out in him.

Coracles & Baskets

Our history lesson was about the early travelers 40,000 years ago.  How they moved from one place to another and why.  After the story we made coracles (boats from cut down trees) and baskets.

They made a coracle out of pipe cleaners & plastic and then made a pipe (cleaner) family to sit inside.

Aliana and I (with the help from Alex) made a grass weaved basket for her pipe baby.

Showing off their pipe buddies.

Showing off her basket and pipe baby. 

 We ended up calling him Moses since she made a basket for the water.

Testing out their coracles in the water and creating wind to make it move. 

They worked.

Death Lesson

This little park trip was for their P.E. time and turned into exploration of under a bridge and a slight lesson on the skeletal system of a dead bird that we found.  When we got in the van to go back home all Tony wanted to do was go back to the bird, kneel down and pray to God about the bird.  It was so precious, I told him that we could pray for the bird in the van with the A/C on.  It wasn't good enough.  He even talked about it 5 hours later after dinner and insisted on driving back to the bird for prayer time - we didn't ;-)

God's precious children!

Picnic-Maniacs!

After church we did it again, yup went on a picnic.  And what's even funnier...Mark hates to eat outside.

Pirates ahoy!

Aliana was instructed by the pirate to drive the boat.

Her own lunch

Aliana and I spent the morning together and when we got home Mark took the boys to a Karate lesson about strangers.  She insisted on making her own lunch, packing it in her new lunch bag that daddy bought her and picnicing outside alone.  It was cute; I could hear her talking to herself and the planes that flew over head (Noni & Papa gets mentioned every time!)

Friday Night Dinner

We surprised the kids on Friday.  We took them to the park for a picnic and playscape.

Mark found this cool area down a hill that a creek ran semi around us, which is dried up since we have had a record drought in Texas (ever) and is a record high in the United States.

Checking out the creek...well creek bed.

Caving Painting

We were learning this past week about how people lived 40,000 years ago; where and how they created and used paint.  So that's just what they did. 

Art project: Cave Paintings.

They were to blow paint from a straw onto a paper.

(40,000 yrs ago they used reeds for a straw and ground up berries, stones, clay & animal fat for the paint & cave walls for paper).

They did well.  Each of them got paint in their mouth at least once, but did get the hang of it quickly including Aliana and all commented on how fun and different this project was.

Bible Memorization

The kids have started a new cirrciculum, Sonlight and every week they are to memorize a bible verse.  Sonlight helps them out by giving them different ways to remember the verses.  We are singing them, witting them, acting them out and reading them.  It's day 3 and the boys have it down. 

This is what they are saying.  "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" that's the word of the Lord and is written by Paul in Romans 3:23.

Pfluggerville City Park

Martha and I took our kids to the park this morning.  We tried to find the fire that is blazing just east of us but didn't really know where it was so we are going to try tomorrow.  Instead we headed off to the park. 

We went exploring down the trails and played for awhile at the bridge and stream.

The girls are getting more friendly and we'll catch them holding hands.  ;-)

I got an idea to break a branch off and throw it up stream on one side of the bridge and run to the other side to try to follow it.  It was fun to see the kids get so excited about the current and their branch.

Before we left we visited the Fall Warriors Memorial statue.  The 3 warriors were so detailed that Alex could tell the other kids what they were holding on their work belts.

We picked up another friend at the park, Daisy.  We met her at a previous park about 3 weeks ago and ran into them again this time. The boys really hit it off with her and they all hugged when we had to go home.  She even wanted Tony to sit by her in the previous picture.  Too cute ;-)

Super Hero's

Aliana got her 1st hero costume yesterday. 

She's a SuperGirl that drives a zoo train. ;-)

Days Rays

They had to write the days on the week on the sun's ray, then glue them in order to the sun. 

They each had to do this project but at a different level.

Tony had to trace the days of the week on the rays, put them in order and glue them to the sun.

Concentrating...

Alex had to spell and write the days of the week on the rays in different colors & then glue them them in order.

Working hard...

Aliana had to glue the rays in the correct order around the sun.

 

Superman did well by himself.

Good job kiddos.

This is what they ended up looking like.

A cute little school mural.

Their Days Rays and their 100 Finger Trees.

Flavor of the Month

I got another idea, watch out there are a couple more coming.

The boys were to make ice cream cones by putting the months in the right order by the flavor of their choice, spelling them correctly and then constructing their cones. 

They had so much fun doing this and couldn't believe how big their ice cream cone was.

 

If you couldn't see what they were holding here it is.

At the top is an explanation of the months (12 months = 1 year, making it concrete) with a cute red felt cherry.

Aliana constructed a number cone.  She did great. She choose the colors she wanted and glued them together.

 The only thing I did was put the numbers on the scoops.

Awesome Team

It is so awesome when the whole teams works together. 

Tony was vacuuming the kitchen after breakfast, Alex & Aliana were gathering all the baskets of laundry and then sorting them by colors.  While I cleaned the table and put dishes in the dishwasher plus take pictures ;-)

(yes, they are in their underwear - in between taking pj's off and getting ready for the day.)