A place tell about what our family of 8 is doing both in school and in life. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/ en-us Homeschool Blogger Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:43:00 -0500 Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:43:00 -0500 The blog that is :) I have a new blog. I have been unable to post pictures here for a little while and decided I wanted some more features so I went to wordpress after reading some info online. Here's our new blog Our Clan of 8. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/369129/ Mon, 6 Aug 2007 22:43:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/369129/ We had a really nice day today! The kids did most of their chores, we headed to the park for free lunch and to let the kids play in the water for about an hour. From there Arthur went to spend the night with a friend and I took the rest of the kids to go play at my sister's house. My 4 year old nephew had a great time playing with Solomon, not so much with Abagail! They are both quite bossy :) Lucas found all of the McQueen goods in their house (a nightlight in the bedroom, a rip cord McQueen, and a Ramone car). Katelyn had the most fun playing with a neighbors little girl. I finally got to see my 16 month old nephew walking, he's a cute little fella. The kids found all the snacks they could find and even wanted to hang out and watch a movie but nap time came on all too quickly. Lucas was asleep before we got home, as was Gentry. I'm compiling my list to make sure we are ready to start homeschooling on my birthday, August 6th! Considering we are only finished painting the bedroom things on that front are moving, well, slowly. We hope to have the front room ready to prime by this weekend, it moves more slowly when Colin works till 10pm on side jobs, but that has to be done also. This is important as this will be the new play/school room. All of my homeschooling supplies are still in the garage in boxes. We were hoping to be able to put down the wood floors in there before we moved school things back in but there just won't be time for that, we can move all that over Christmas or Thanksgiving and take care of the floor. We are putting floating wood floors throughout, except the kitchen and laundry room. I DID try to post those pics but for some reason they just would not post, I will try to try again tomorrow... lost of trying in that sentence. We have the dentist, speech therapy, and bible study tomorrow, that's why I can only TRY :) http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/366092/ Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:52:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/366092/ I have finally taken the time to find the piece to put the pictures on the computer, have internet hooked up in a room I can use, and the time and energy to update my blog. We are still in the midst of working on the house. The master bedroom has NO BROWN in it. It used to have brown wood paneling, brown trim, and brown doors. We have bid a joyous farewell to brown. Everything in there is now white, primer, and two coats of primer at that! We plan on painting the bedroom green with white trim, with the green going up tomorrow and white trim sometime next weekend. The front room is free of all paneling, that was taken down last Saturday and is almost completely spackled, that's a lot of work. We hope to have that room in the painting process this week. I really wanted to have that room finished but there just wasn't enough time and energy. Now for this pics. There are some of an average day at our house (when we could use our front room) with the boys wrestling and Abagail playing with her baby doll. The pretty pink clouds seen from the highway on the way home from a trip two weeks ago. Abagail listening to America Rock on her Leapster. Of course a few shots of Mohawk. BTW, Mohawk is potty training! Yesterday he didn't use the pot at all but today he didn't have any accidents! For each day he has no accidents he earns a car from the Cars movie that he doesn't yet have. Tonight he picked Snot Rod. I can't post any pics for some reason, but I wanted to show this blog on the site. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/364414/ Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:40:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/364414/ Once upon a time there was a rather large family. The oldest child was moody and complained of life being "not fair". The second child just wanted to ride his bike "until the cows come home". The third child thought the second child was "bossy". The fourth child wants to jump on the trampoline in her princess dress. The fifth child has a mohawk. The sixth child has pen drawings on his head, hence his new nickname of tatoo. The two adults are both exhausted but dealing with our wild hoard alright. I will post pictures of Mohawk and Tatoo later tonight if I can find the thing to put the pics on the computer. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/360957/ Sun, 22 Jul 2007 17:52:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/360957/ This is just a short update as I'm still cleaning the house in order to FINALLY start priming tomorrow. I took this pic  of Gentry while Solomon was holding him with Lucas rubbing his head and just loved it but my moody camera messed the pic up. My camera made it almost sepia colored but a bit more red, I have no idea why my camera is doing this but I have turned the pic black and white and doctored it in my picture program. I do love this pic. There is also a video of Lucas on the other site that is ever so cute. Lucas on video I took Gentry in for his 2 month check up and we weighed 12.5lbs and was 24 inches long. He's growing rapidly and getting pudgy as he should. That's about all the updates I have for now, I will be getting a mini vacation this weekend. Going to see my buddy Angelica. Her daughter, Gracie, is having her 6th birthday party. Abagail, Gentry, and I will be going on Saturday partying, having dinner out, going to church Sunday to hear Angelica play the piano and then heading back home. Abagail and I are both very excited to get away and get to see some of our best friends. http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/354928/ Tue, 10 Jul 2007 22:56:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/354928/ Remember those lofty goals I had to do unit studies in July? Not happening. Remember those lofty goals I had to start school by mid August? Not happening. Why you ask? We are moving. We have almost all of the house packed now. The kitchen, laundry room, and games need to be packed. That's it. Once we get those packed we start painting Saturday, a week late. According to our real estate agent neutral sells so all my beautiful colored rooms will be painted beige. Yuck. All of our ugly brown trim will be transformed to beautiful white, that I will not mind but getting brain trim white will prove to be loads of fun I am sure. Then once we are done with that we will be neutral carpet. I will be so sad to see our blue carpet go... NOT! We hope to have the house listed by the 14th, sold before the end of July and get outta here by mid August. That will put school starting MAYBE early September, puttting us back again for when we will finish but oh well! We are currently living in the "city" a neighborhood that is a rather nice neighborhood, for the most part (see earlier post about our front door getting kicked in on a dare and note that a week ago someone tried to steal hubby's car, which is a piece of junk anyway). We will be moving (hopefully) to the country. Almost 9 acres into a 4 bed 2 bath trailor. Not your run-of-the-mill trailor, large enough for our family with plenty of room to build a house behind. We look forward to QUIET, no ambulances and police cars all around us making noise, not living down the street from a monthly tested tornado warning siren, and plenty of room to stretch out, not to mention no view of our house from the street! Well, kids are doing well, Gentry's getting bigger and bigger, goes in next week for a check up. Rest of kids are busy making me nuts with boredom while I try to pack. Angus' flea prob is better with Frontline Plus and the chickens are still layig eggs.   http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/352248/ Thu, 5 Jul 2007 14:39:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/352248/ I have decided to start our school year early. We will start with Winter Promise July 2nd and add in the human body lapbook for science for the first 2 weeks and Missionaries the next 2 weeks. Then August 6th (my birthday) we will add in Apologia science, spanish, math, and Honor Your Father and Mother. I thought this would work better than doing no school at all and then throwing a whole new day at the kids. This will give us a month on our full schedule before our co op starts in September. Now for pictures :) We pulled a tree down on Saturday. As you can tell we are from the south... we tied the tree to the car and Colin used the chain saw to start the process but it chain saw got stuck (cheap chain saw) so he asked *me* to put the car in reverse and slowly see if the tree would come down. It did. Colin cutting the tree The kids on the tree after it came down Lucas "Just call me Pig Pen" These are lilies from my front yard that we planted last year, some have multiplied and others have not but they are pretty! This was cute because Lucas just climbed right into the empty hamper to play the piano. A nice lady that Colin works with gave us this cute little piano that Lucas and Gentry will enjoy playing with since the others will be getting a full size keyboard. Solomon has learned to ride a two wheeled bike. I don't know the exact tale but Colin came inside while I was making dinner and said "Solomon is riding a two wheeler" and then a terrible shriek from Abagail. She had fallen because she leaned sideways on her bike while riding over a speed bump and skinned her knee really well. As soon as Colin cleaned it and put a band-aid on it Abagail said "Can I still ride me bike?" Gentry Abagail's "sand" castle Abagail http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/342148/ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:53:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/342148/ My friend through a friend Beth has tagged me. "The rules are real easy, all you have to do is write 7 random facts or habits about yourself in your blog. Then choose and list 7 people and leave them a 'Tag' letting them know to come by, and read your blog and see why." 7 Random facts.... 1. I'm the youngest of 3 2. We are aware of "what causes that" 3. We have a dog the size of a human 4. I'm a pack rat, yes I admit it 5. I have a weakness for candy corns 6. I read constantly 7. I talk to myself at times Now to tag 7 people..... http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/342142/ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:47:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/342142/ I had lost the attachment that I use to put pictures from my camera onto the computer but not that I have found it I have plenty of pictures to post. I also want to add that i have gotten to order the Calculadders Master Pak 1 and Truthquest 1 American History. We will be using Calculadders over the summer for Arthur for multiplication and for Solomon for addition. I wanted Truthquest before the homeschool convention in August to make sure I get the main books that I would like to use with Truthquest. Now for the pictures: I will start with a picture I took just for Beth of Beth's Bountiful Blessings You wanted a pic so badly, I thought you'd like this one :) On Sunday during a walk Lucas was doing a very scientific experiment, which is harder cement or his head... the cement won. Full face shot Close up of lump This is a very exciting picture for Colin and me because this is the very first jigsaw puzzle Katelyn has ever completed without any help at all! These are pictures of Arthur's zoo Parrots The whole zoo Penguin Lion Lucas at the park, I would have taken more of the others but I was holding Gentry and the sun was behind a cloud and then it came out and it was *really* bright and I was nervous having Gentry out in that sun. More fun with peanut butter dough: Arthur made a rattle snake Solomon made "ing" Abagail made an alien and a volcano Most people only post pics of their kids when they are happy and clean and such, well, not me!  *angry* Lucas Lucas' cars saying "cheese" Colin and Gentry, he just loves to be outside (that's Gentry, guess Colin too but really Gentry) Arthur This is "Big Red" the Chicken This is "Sour" the Chicken BTW, we have a fun time with chicken names too. We have Big Red and Big Mama, Mama rules the roost but Big Red is bigger than her now. Two others are Goldie and Silver, then there are two whites Squeaky (she does sound like a squeak toy) and Grumpy, be around her for a few minutes and you'll know why that's her name. There are then 2 greyish ones, nothing to use from attitude per say but we did name them well, Sweet and Sour. Sour does indeed have a sour attitude and Sweet is sweet to those who don't chase her (Colin and I). Last but not least Abagail loves to color and draw, much like Arthur. She will use paper, felt, foam sheets, and in this case even the bottom of a pizza box. The only problem with this was that she wanted me to keep this pizza box. I took some pics and the box went. Yes, almost all of her drawing have at least 1 princess http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/339939/ Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:53:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/339939/ I gave up on figuring how to post a movie here and posted it to my Blogspot instead. This is my old blog page, one I barely got started using and then changed. Anyway, the video of Lucas is there and I'm posting the other video in a few minutes. The link is Our Family of 7 As you can see by the name, it's an old blog :) We are now Our Family of 8! http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/339921/ Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:33:00 -0500 http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Lesasclan/339921/