Baby Goats

It appears 2010 is not going to be a major blogging year as it is 1/4 over and this is only my what 2nd or 3rd posting. I won't apologize though, i'll just carry on as if nothing happened.

We are studying goats in Olivia's kindergarten homeschool curriculum and so we headed over to our friends the Weipert's who happen to have some baby goats. poor goat right...who feels sorry for the baby goat?






finally a little treat for all that abuse.


Olivia's sweet friend Mckenna


We learned all about the proper care and handling of baby goats. Those goats have to be ready for anything you know. Our words to remember are "Jesus died for my sins" and we reviewed the story in the old testament where the priest would place his hands on two goats heads - one would be killed for the sins of Israelites and one would go free. So cool this story falls on the week before Easter.

Welcome Baby Elijah

our good friends tim and jamie had a baby boy. i had the privilege of taking some 3 week portraits of him today...he is so adorable. here's one of my favorite of the day.

Miriam portraits 18 months

It's been so long since I've given any of my kids their own special photoshoot. I had miss miriam home by ourselves so I gave it a whirl. She was mostly not into looking at the camera but I did get these that I'm happy with.

A Smashing Christmas

Our little choir of "angels" getting ready for the sound check on Christmas Eve

Olivia getting ready for the performance

My only shot of the girlies in their matching dresses from Grandma



Drew with his buddy "Chew"; Lauren with her buddy "Chew." They're funny
like that.

Thanksgiving in Sunriver

Going to Sunriver for Thanksgiving was a favorite family tradition for us when I was in high school and college, so this trip was extra-special for us this year. My parents and Phuong's brother Quoc and his wife Chau also joined us. We rented a big house with ping-pong, fuse-ball, air hockey, lots of movies and toys for the kids.



We went to the Teddy Bear Tea at the Lodge...here's Olivia trying to hold her pinky up and drink tea at the same time...takes a lot of concentration.



We went on a VERY short sleigh ride in the freezing cold


Gramma entertained all the children at once...she's good at that.


Miss Miriam enjoying a puzzle.

Homeschooling Week 16

Homeschooling Week 16

I've gotta catch up with this since I'm using this blog also as our personal records of the school year. We have been having a fun time doing school and are in a pretty good routine. It normally takes us about 2 or 2 1/2 hours a day and we try to get this done in the morning.

Bible We studied the stories about Noah, the Tower of Babel and Abram. Olivia reads the story in her Bible Reader and then illustrates the story in her notebook. Our Bible verse was Proverbs 30:5 "Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him." We discussed how Noah and his family were kept safe during the flood because they believed in God. Olivia gets to illustrate the Bible stories in her Bible notebook
Here's her tall tower

And our attempt at making a tall tower...mmm i think we were missing something here.

Reading We learned that "ew" says "oo" as in spoon and short vowel "e" spelled "ea"
The reading from her Bible reader is the main reading that we do. I also have her read other first readers such as Dr. Seuss and Little Bear.

Math We spent the week looking at different types of graphs. We do this every day in our weather graph so this was an easy concept. One of the suggested activities was graphing all the types of animals included in a box of animal crackers. I figured math that included cookies couldn't go wrong.


Science: We studies rainbows to go along with the promise that God made to Noah to never flood the earth again. We learned Roy G. Biv and did this fun little craft.

First, a bunch of little squares of tissue paper



Then glue them on



Ta Da...finshed product.



And one of our little rocker


That was week 16 - And I want to say we might have done this one in two weeks due to few things that were going on - one being Thanksgiving which will be my next post.

Autumnal Park

The word "autumnal" is written at least twice in "A Wrinkle in Time." It's appropriate here too, i suppose.
Sara and I met at the park for some fresh air when the sun was out last week. Good times.





I just have to say that I LOVE babies with their pacifiers... one of the cutest things to me.