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My blogging continues at: http://luv2praisehim.blogspot.com/ |
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Just a few pics of the kids doing their things today:) Nathan is doing is activities that we received by participating in a swap at FIAR
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We have 3 of 4 children's birthdays in consecutive months, and they have just ended for this year:) Here are a few recent pics of them.
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Just thought that since I haven't posted much in a while, I would post updated pics of the kiddos!!! |
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The boys playing with their trucks |
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Jenna and her snuggle buddy |
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Dana with Jenna (in her new high chair) |
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Jenna in her walker:) |
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Our house did sell and no jobs in the area came through for us. So, we are now back in Richmond,VA. We have rented a house and are nearing a point that we could feel settled soon:) I will try to post some recent pics soon. This is our first week back to school and we are excited about it!!
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Posted in Family life
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We put our house up on the market 2 wks ago and it seems it might have gone quickly. Only one showing! The inspection is Tuesday and assuming all goes well, we will close on Sept. 28. No word yet on where we're off to next, but it might not be too far!:) |
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Well, this week in our studies, using FIAR, we did Mirette on the High Wire. It was not my favorite book when we started out, although the illustrations are fantastic. But, I came to like it a little better and my littles like it pretty well, now, too. Here's what we did: Lang. Arts: learned about compound words and did the worksheet here. Our spelling list for this week: afraid, wire, high, fear, line, years, circus, salute. Vocabulary that we (inadvertantly) learned: omelette, salute, boardinghouse (compound word). Geography: used the story disk to locate France and refresh ourselves on some things we already studied about France. Social Studies: Arts/Talents/Abilities - discussed special interests and how practice is also necessary to become proficient at things. Dd mentioned that she would like to learn to sew. Also, Occupations: we read "Things People Do" (Usborne). Character/Bible: We use "Leading Little Ones to God", but the character trait for this that we focused on was encouragement. I believe it is soo important to be encouragement for one another. Art: We made posters announcing an event. Science: PE: we pretended to walk a wire (using string), casting our eyes straight ahead, and keeping one foot directly in front of the other:) It was cute watching all of them line up to do it.:) We also investigated copper (metal). We found pics of things that are copper, and mentioned oxidation. Polishing a penny helped demonstrate that. Also, mentioning that the Statue of Liberty is made of copper and was given to our country from......FRANCE!!!! neat!! Extra credit: We served omelettes and crepes one night for dinner and french toast for breakfast one day! To top it all off, we lapbooked it all!!! It turned out to be a great week of FIAR for us.
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Posted in Fun and games
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Aunt Kimmie surprised us this weekend with a nice visit!!! She's looking great and we had a good time with her!!! Nathan especially has a 'thing' for her!!! We love her and wish we could have her to ourselves more often! |
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Well, it was our first week of school this week. It went well, all things considered. The curriculum we use, Five in a Row, is based on children's literature. And, our first book of the year is How to Bake and Apple Pie and See the World. We learned quite a lot for just one week. We pantomimed , learned about measures, hit briefly on subtraction, began an evaporation experiment, and yes, we did bake an apple pie - from scratch!!! The pics prove it!! Hopefully, I can post our lapbook pics later!
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I have been planning and organizing and preparing and praying...and, tomorrow is finally going to be the first day of school this year!!
I'll get a pic in here for ya tomorrow. Tomorrow is also Jenna's 2 month dr. visit -- that should be fun! I'll post my schedule for the house and my school plan soon. |
I know things are going to go well.!!! |
Finally, Jenna has a little peace! When she is on her tummy, she can manage a finger (ANY finger is fine) and will rest a little better:) I just love how angelic they look while they're sleeping
This is my first completed project in quite a while. I had the extra fabric and so I made this for Dana over the last few days. I think it looks quite cute on her!
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This is a picture today of Jenna in her bouncy seat. Some of the other pics are a few weeks old due to a computer failure:)
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Posted in Family life
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We have been working hard this summer learning to adapt to having one more member!! Jenna was born 5/25. She is soo sweet and the children are LOVING having her.:) They love holding her and are very helpful! We have had wonder visits with 3 sets of family recently and have enjoyed just being home this summer.
We are getting ready for a new school year soon.! Dana will be starting 1st grade and Dylan is doing K4. Nathan is along for the ride and Jenna is just hangin' in there!:) |
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Well, I have not done a lot with my blog in the last little bit....I have just survived the end of this pregnancy. But, we are going in Thurs, May 25 for induction and I couldn't be happier!!! We just can't wait. The kids are soo soo excited!!! This will be our 2nd little girl (just to even the score a little) and her name is Jenna Strickland Presley. We are very excited to see her!!! Will post pictures ASAP - even though I don't know how to resize. Hopefully I will be back up and running in the next few weeks.:) |
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I am soooo illiterate when it comes to this. I still can't figure out how to resize my pics so that they don't take up the entire screen. But, at least I got one on there!!! That's a first. I will work on it. This one, I cropped using the KodakEasyShare software that came with my camera. This is the first time I have even gotten one to download onto the blog:) So, I'll keep trying! It's still cute!!! |