Sunday, August 14, 2016

Week of August 7, 2016


This week has been full of lots of fun with friends and lots of outside time.

The boys came over Monday.  While I got school ready for the day the kids relaxed in the den and watched some tv.

After we did our morning basket time we worked on math.  The kids were so excited when they found out that this was our last math lesson from our Math K book!



Rich worked on some bird perches this week for our new big flight cage.  The girls took the extra branches and played with their jungle animals.



Tuesday morning the girls wanted to try a recipe from their Hilights magazine.  They toasted bread, spread cream cheese and made little American flags on their toast.





After breakfast the girls worked on their schoolwork so we could go to the pool to celebrate finishing our math book.


When we got out to the car we found our battery had died.  So we switched gears and got Daddy up so we could jump the car and go get a new battery.  The girls had such a good attitude and did a great job while we drove to the store and got a new battery.  Afterwards we got an ice cream treat at Sonic.

We dropped Rich back at the house and headed to the pool.




Katie loves going underwater.  It scares you at first when you see her just pop underneath the water.

Wednesday the boys came over again.  The kids had fun playing, doing school and pretending that they were in a marching band.


Audrey reading on her bed.  She loves her books.

Thursday the girls did some yoga.


We worked on our math lesson with legos.

Working hard on their math (Audrey loves doing math with Katie).

Friday morning the girls and I went outside to search for snails.  We are studying snails as part of our nature study for this month.  We were able to find centipedes, crickets, grubs, a slug and eventually 4 snails.  We watched the snails crawling around and then discovered some ants swarming around our back door.  After washing the ants away from the door we went inside to write in our nature journals.




The girls drew the ants swarming.



Saturday Aunt Vicki and Grandma had a fun day at the house with the girls while Rich and I went on a road trip to pick up some new gouldian finches.  We stopped and picked up some red dirt for the girls to see.

We brought home a yellow and blue gouldian finch.





The girls' zebra finches are on one side of the flight cage and my gouldians are on the other.



Sunday morning the girls and I made muffins and had poetry tea time in the backyard.

We played outside most of the morning.  We took care of our rabbits, swung and watered the gardens.





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