Happy Birthday Max!

Today you are 2! I can't hardly believe it. Where has the time gone? Right this moment you are in your room not taking your nap. Big boys don't take naps, just babies. Couldn't you stay a baby a little longer? You are growing up so fast and it is fun to watch. Just yesterday at the store, clear as day, you said, "Want apple juice." So apple juice we got. Happy Birthday Little Man!

Mad Riding Skills...

For Sam's birthday we got him a Big Wheel. One of the good, old big Big Wheels. We knew he wouldn't do a 2 wheeler without a fight. A month or so ago, one of the neighbor boys came over on their old little 2 wheeler. He is way too big for it and it was funny to see him on it. I asked him if Sam could give it a try... and away he went. If only we had known, we would have got that for his birthday instead of the Big Wheel. Knowing how Sam is about things, we knew we had to seize the opportunity and get him his own bike. So about a week ago, Rick took Sam to get a big boy bike!

New Front Yard...

Last summer we, well Rick, ripped everything (minus the tree in the corner bed and the burning bush in the bed in the middle of the yard) out of the beds in the front yard. They just needed help. On Monday Rick went and got new plants. So after I was done with work, he dug the holes and I planted. We ended up doing a lot of rose bushes, a row of lavender and a couple of euonymus. We think it came together nicely and hopefully everything will live!

199 Days...

That was our school year, 199 days. We started 1 August, 2008 and finished 27 May, 2009. Wow! There was good, bad and the ugly, but in all it was a good year. We were all learning something new. Evelyn as the student, me as the teacher. I am so proud of all that Evelyn has learned and accomplished. I know I wasn't always the nicest or easiest mom to deal with as we started this new adventure. We used K-12 for our curriculum and it was the perfect thing for us to start our homeschooling journey with. They sent us everything we would need. We would log in every day to look at our lesson plans and log our attendance. We really haven't stopped doing school. Evelyn does better when we keep at it, even just a little. I decided for 1st grade (that sounds weird, my baby is in 1st grade), we are going to do our own thing though. Now that I have a year under my belt, I decided I wanted to try out some different things. Thanks to some great friends (who's brain's I constantly pick) I found several different curriculum to try. The big box came a few weeks ago and Evelyn was eager to dig in. I got a few things for Sam too. I had never really done much with him, but when we were at my parents in February, I printed up some worksheets for him. He wrote his name like a champ after just showing him once. So he has started his handwriting book and math book. It should be a fun year.