Friday, September 14, 2012

Happenings of my 2nd Grader...

I wanted to post a weekly wrap up of sorts, but it's more like a 3 week wrap up! Mainly about my 2nd grader and what he's been up to :)  Just a few snapshots of life in 2nd grade. 


He's been doing great and I've been so impressed by him in the last few weeks.  How we've grown up since last year!  Watching his spelling excel since starting All About Spelling has been amazing.  I'm learning such neat spelling rules that I always just knew, but never realized there were rules for!  His reading is sooooo good!  He's just impressing me all around!

Besides our main curriculum, we've been adding in some fun things.  We're doing a "Getting to know the World's Greatest Artists" from www.confessionsofahomeschooler.com - she offers it free and we love it.  He's been studying Picasso for three weeks now. 

Here he is doing his 'Picasso' painting and also doing a puzzle of 'Girl in a Mirror' which we'll put into our Artists lapbook.




He started swimming lessons again.  I think this is our 5th or 6th session. He just went up to level 2 and is doing very well.


Just a little felt fun time with the brothers...

 his 'Garden of Gethsemane'... I loved how he found a cup of wine to put in the angel's hand :)


Last weekend he did the 2nd reading for his Aunt Mary's wedding.  I was so proud of him.  He wasn't nervous about it for a minute!


Congrats Aunt Mary and Uncle Steven!  Here is daddy with his siblings! It was a beautiful wedding.


On Thursday we went on a field trip to tour the amazingly beautiful Watson-Curtze mansion and then the Planetarium.  Everyone had a great time.



I'd have to say one of his favorite things has been all his creature friends he's found/hatched! 

Here's "Mantee'.  He lived with us for a few days.  We even bought him crickets and watched him eat them...even I was impressed!


Mr. Toad wasn't with us long.


By far, far, far his favorite (I hear that it's his favorite MANY times a day) is our newest pet.  We incubated him for 28 days and Monday finally got to meet him!


Meet Webbers Quackers Walky Swimmy Flyie - Webbers for short!  (combined name from all the kids) He's done just about everything with us...even swimming in the bathtub!

Eveyone loves him! 


That's it!  Well, definitely not it - there's much more, but that's all I took pictures of ;) 
I hope all of you had wonderful first week(s) of school!  And see all of you grandparents tomorrow for the good old Albion kids tractor pull!!!  I have two eager contestants here!

Monday, September 10, 2012

All Done Canning!!!

Whew!!! What a last few months we've had here with the garden and canning...

The boys in our tomato jungle..


I guess once the plants were FILLED with tomatos I was too busy picking to take pictures! You can imagine though! We picked thousands...literally thousands of tomatos.  I exaggerate often, but not on this one!

Here's one picking (we picked about every other day for a month!)

We had tons of help from our 'helpers'!


And the final count (appox)...
220 tomato soups (hoping for 2 years worth - while we were on a roll...well Dominic and boys do the soups so I can't say 'we' for that one!)
50 green beans
60 salsas
30 tomato sauce
12 butternut squash

frozen:
TONS of cabbage (had some for dinner and it was wonderful)
TONS of peppers (stuffed and plain)
TONS of berries (not enough though!)
corn


But now....what about all of these peppers that are sitting on my table as I type...it's not over yet!

Anyone need some peppers...really - yummy organic peppers.  Please let me know.  There's MANY more coming!  I can only freeze so many stuffed peppers :)

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

School Pictures

SCHOOL PICTURES  2012-2013



Tot school


Pre K


2nd Grade


We wanted to take pictures for gramma in the shirts she bought the boys....then decided to make them school pictures!