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Friday, November 26, 2010

We started the day off with a good breakfast - eggs in a nest, bacon, hash browns, juice, coffee.


Then Doug had Austin back the van up to the trailor and hitch it up. More and more Doug is having Austin take an active role in his day to day work. This is providing him with some awesome real life experience in practical living skills. I've seen a big boost in Austin's self-confidence since they have begun doing this.






Then we went over to our old house and loaded up the last load of random stuff that was left there and brought it back to the new (to us) house. It's so great to know that all the packing and moving is done. There's still quite a bit of unpacking to do but at least everything is over here.

Of the three kids Amanda has had the hardest time with this move. She always has a hard time with change and this time was no different. Even though she loves our new home, she has a hard time letting go of the old one. She took my phone and was going through the house taking pictures of each room. I was looking through them this evening and found this one she took of herself.

What a sad face.



She cheered up quite a bit though when we told her we were going to McDonalds as a treat since they did such a wonderful job and worked so hard today.




Now her friend CeCe is here for the night and they are watching the Disney channel. Doug is watching Avatar on him computer and I am blogging.

~ Rose ~


Friday, July 16, 2010

Daily Adventure at Rose's House Friday July 16,2010

Gluing the story cards and coloring the picture from our Bible lesson this morning.






Here Tristan is showing some of the other boys some card tricks. In the background is my wonderful helper.




We were treated to quite a concert today when the kids made microphones out of Legos and sang into them at the tops of their lungs.



Gianni, CJ and I played several rounds of Go Fish this afternoon.





Amanda finally saved enough money to buy the new cage she wanted for her pet rats so Doug took her to PetSmart this afternoon to get it. Then, after dinner, she and Doug put it together.






The rats love it. It's about four times bigger than the one they were in.



This was not in the plan, but somehow the trip to PetSmart also resulted in a new pet to add to our menagerie.

Meet Little Red, the guinea pig.


The cat was very interested in this new addition.


And so were the kids.













She's supposed to be Doug's pet but we'll see how that works out with Amanda in the house.

It's been a busy interesting day. More adventures on the way tomorrow.

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Another Day in the Life

Math
Austin and Amanda - History of Math Video

Reading
Austin - Chinese Fables - Yay-Gung Loves Dragons
Amanda - Chapter 7 from SOS Titanic by Eve Bunting

Language Arts
Austin - Noun Dunk*
Amanda - Nouns Game 1*
Austin and Amanda - review spelling words

*Activities Found at Gamequarium

Science
Austin and Amanda - The Science of Light-Made From Dots
Austin and Amanda - The Science Channel - How Do They Do It? Aluminum Foil, GPS Systems

Social Studies
Austin and Amanda - Chapter 13 from The True Story of Christopher Columbus, Called the Great Admiral by Elbridge Streeter Brooks

Typing
Austin and Amanda - Dance Mat Typing Level 1 Stage 1

Art
Austin and Amanda - Quilt Block Coloring Pages




Health
Austin and Amanda - Time For Bed?

Physical Education
Austin - 1 hour walk
Amanda - 30 minute walk

Here are some pictures that Austin took while he was out on his walk.



Literature
Austin and Amanda - Chapters 25-27 from Anne of Ingleside by L. M. Montgomery

Bible
Austin and Amanda - Psalm 49, Psalm 50, Psalm 73,



Preschool Fun
We played with and talked about toy zoo animals and dinosaurs.


Built with blocks.


We looked at books.


And read stories.
Songs were sung, many times over. Many, many times over.
We played outside until the rain chased us back in. While we were outside we got to watch a big spider that I decided not to take a picture of.
And all day long we played and laughed and learned.