Okay, remind me that I said that when I have a bad week. We just had a wonderful week this week. We kept up on most of our work on top of our added activities. The only project that we didn't get to was the gourd rattles. I bought the gourds, but I admit that they intimidate me. We plan on doing those next week. I'm also going to make some corn husk dolls for Katie. If Nathan wants one, I'll make him a boy doll.

We finished two of our books for Sonlight. The first was Walk the World's Rim. A lot of other Sonlighters said that they cried at the end of this book. I got to the sad part of the book and was proud that I didn't cry. Then it hit me when I had two pages left. Nathan thought I was nutty. We also finished Pedro's Journal. It was a good and easy read, but not my favorite.

Right now we are making our Indian feast. We definitely made too much food. This is our menu for the night:

Beans~navy, great northern, and pinto with bacon and veggies

Hominy casserole

Corn on the cob

Baked butternut squash

Indian candy corn for dessert!

Hopefully it all turns out well. It sure does smell good.

We are also working hard on our Tops experiments that are a part of our science curriculum with Sonlight. We are doing experiments with radish seeds. Right now, we have four different experiments going, so it is taking up plenty of counter space. I'm just so happy that the seeds are sprouting. A lot of people have complained that their seeds don't sprout, but all of mine have been just fine.

Tomorrow we are going to Boo at the Zoo! Grandpa is going to meet us there. I'm so happy that we have a membership +1. We always get one person in free with us. The only thing we will be paying for is our drinks and the motor safari. We'll be bringing a lunch with us, so it will be a cheap and super fun day. They have a costume parade, special zoo chats with different creepy animals, scarecrow crafts and games, professional pumpkin carvers, and goodie bags.

Katie is excited to see the lions, giraffes, and dolphins. We decided not to spend the money to see the dolphins again, so I told her that they were not at the zoo right now. Nathan wants to see the penguins and vampire bats. They also have a snake for the kids to touch. I hope it's a big one!

So we're having lots of fun during the fall season. This is definitely my favorite time of year. I'm excited that our school schedule just happens to be discussing Thanksgiving right at Thanksgiving time. Then we will take the month of December to do a Christmas unit.