Halloween

With halloween on a Sunday - we had plenty of time to prepare our costumes for the upcoming night.

Sage decided to be a gangster "money" man and stayed home to pass out the candy

I am sure you can tell who Ryan is. He has a new love of Star Wars - I am amazed at how much he knows without ever seeing a single movie.

I love the homemade Darth Vader costumer he and his dad made


My little fairy princess!! So sweet. Her first trick or treat and she loved every minute of it.

I love how her wings billow behind her

Talking about their candy and what they will give to the sugar fairy.

Field trip #2 - Robot Factory and Art Museum

On Thursday we played hookey from our co-op and went on a homeschool tour of the Robot factory Sally Corp. Actually my mom went with the boys on the tour since they have a strict rule of no kids under 7! that means no Adeline and since my mom has been wanting to go, she took the day off from work and took the boys. They had a great time

very intrigued


Cool robot man
Elvis is in the house
When the tour was over I picked them up and we headed over to the Museum of Modern Art to check out the squares exhibit. WHen we went for opening night - the place was jammed pack! It was impossible to get up close. This time we had no trouble! There are about 400 squares back there. It is pretty cool to see. I have to admit I did not get to look to much as I was busy chasing Adeline making sure she did not cross the ropes and play with the art. But I was able to get glances
And a quick photo near my square (it is the one at the top -3rd from the right). THank you Adeline and Sage for taking this picture.

this weeks field trips part 1 - St Augustine Light House

This week the St Augustine Light house was having homeschool day so we signed up and headed on over there.

The outdoor classroom - I love it!!! The boys learn a few things
While little sis can be like the big kids and then
run around barefoot and play - love those dirty toes : )

The boys learned how the Keeper kept log books, how they dressed, how they lived and bout the lighthouse itself.

I think these keepers had a very nice house!
Look here are two of them now -
Asleep on the job - should of known


We explored the house/museum and learned about diff knots
Little A is doing here best.

We had a nice time and then headed over to a restaurant on the water for some lunch!! My camera ran out of batteries as we were eating or I would of taken pic of lunch. Take my word for it - it was yummy!

lessons have begun

About 4 weeks ago we started our homeschool lessons. R is second grade this year. This year we have new students. His sister who is now officially a toddler and wants to be a part of everything we do! His older brother who is in 9th grade this year!

Yep - we have been talking about bringing Sage home and homeschooling him again for a couple of years, and this year we did it!! As he heads into high school we wanted to make sure he has a good solid foundation before he heads off to college. He is one that needs more time to focus and concentrate on his work, at school he was too easily distracted. Not too mention peer pressure. So far he is doing great. We registered him in the free virtual school and I can already notice his confidence in his abilities as well as him becoming an independent learner. The 2 main reasons for homeschooling him. He told me the other day that he loved homeschooling!! yeah.

With little A everywhere i am trying to stick the Christopherus Curric that I have. In the past I only use potions of the guide and change things around.

We started with a 2 week math review block and form drawing. Since the weather here allows us to be outside ALOT - we took our lessons to the driveway.

The math block is followed by a 4 week Language Arts Saints/ word family block.

We have started writing our own word family story book together. First the AVE family

Then the EER and EAR families

We started our Saints Stories with Genevieve of Paris. Trying to use our watercolors to paint Genevieve was a bit of a challenge - but they came out ok.

We added a summary in our lesson book.
THe second story we worked on was Kun and Yu. We really spent our time on this block crayon drawing to get the drawing of Yu the best we could.

In addition to our lessons we have joined a Waldorf co-op that meets 2x a week where the boys will be learning violin,recorder,spanish,handwork,circle,yoga and drama!! What fun.

To add to that Sage is in a financial club and I am sure there will be many more homeschool adventures this year!! !

We are off to a good start.

New dress for baby A

It has been awhile since I have made little miss A anything new! How can that be !!

I was finally inspired by this cute white fabric

And this pinafore pattern :

Adeline wanted to help. I think she will be a seamstress when she is older.

And this is the result! It came out very cute, of course the cute model wearing it makes it even cuter! This was the first dress I have made with a yoke and it turned out to be so easy!

the perfect summer dress! I love pinafores , so I see some more in her future!