Everyday Living

Here's a little bit of what we've been up to lately...
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We attended a very hot yearbook signing party at the park with the kids school, OPS (Olivet Private School). For a homeschool "school", this yearbook blew my mind. The group really did an amazing job with it! I love it! What's my favorite part? Fletch's picture is even in it with the other younger siblings under "the wannabes". How cute!
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Colton and Gracie had a contest to see how many signatures they could get in their yearbook. Who do you think won?
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I'm sure that's not a hard one. While Gracie was steadily asking every, ahem, girl out there that she knew, Colton was busy climbing trees and catching lizards with the other boys. So typical!
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{gracie's friend and fellow ballerina signing her book}
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{it was scorching hot out so fletch got some of his bigger friends to help him turn on the water spritzer. }

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We've been trying to tackle some yard work but seem to keep getting too side tracked to really get anything done. Here's our littlest helper after "helping out" with some yard work...



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After this mess, the rain came to our aid at just the right time...

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And lastly, a little more name art. Today's lesson: to create animal patterns for each letter of your name. Colton cheated by shortening his name to Colt, but that's okay. I really like it. I've always liked calling him that but it just hasn't stuck yet.


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See if you can figure out any of my animals... (okay, I'll admit, you may have to use your imagination here : )

Hint, hint, the "e" is an animal you would find in the rainforests. Another hint... notice the red eye, and the sticky finger pads that like to cling to trees. Okay, I know it truly doesn't look like the real thing but hey, give me some credit. I was distracted trying to tend to the baby. Just look at him...



Well okay, this was after I was distracted. He was being a complete handful until I brought out the jumper. When I say handful I'm talking about his hands. See the marker. Well, you should have seen the rest of my house. Thank goodness for Mr. Clean's Magic Eraser. Watching him in this jumper is too funny because he is way overly tall for it but still meets the weight limit (long and lean) and he still LOVES it. He always has! I put him in it on occasions when I need him out of whatever we're doing and he spins and jumps wildly while working out all of his bottled up energy. It's great because I fully open up the school room french doors so he has plenty of room to "exercise" while watching us do our thing. While we were coloring away making our animal letters, I happened to stop to notice that he'd been pretty quiet so I glanced over to the doors to see him sound asleep. This is a very rare thing for him to just pass out like this so of course I had to grab my camera : )

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