John's 7th birthday

We celebrated John's 7th birthday this past weekend.  It was lots of fun.  Friday night we went to Lagoon, it was the first night of Frightmares and the kids love the Halloween decorations.



His new shirt from his favorite game.


And then Friday night he stayed up till midnight and we counted down until he turned 7.  He was so excited.



Saturday we went to Toys R Us to get his birthday balloon and hat and use his birthday coupon.  He picked Legos of course.



Then we went to lunch at TGI Fridays.





We ended the day with cake.



And of course a picture of my two 7 year olds

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School

We've now completed 6 weeks of second grade.  It's going really well and the kids are having lots of fun and actually remembering the stuff I teach them.  Phoebe is picking up lots of things from listening to what Bella and John are up to.  And I've found a way to work with her at the table while the older kids are doing work on their own.

This is what our school room looks like, it's also our dining room. I have no idea what we're going to do next year when we run out of room to put our books.


John and Bella got to break out the scissors and glue a couple weeks ago.  They were so excited that we ended up doing a week's worth of science in one sitting without even realizing it. 


I've found it's a perfect time to work with Phoebe while John and Bella do math.


I woke up one morning last week and found these on the shelf. I guess they all had art class without me.
















We went to the planetarium on Saturday. We didn't stay long but the kids still had fun. They are all very interested in space. Phoebe even know all the planets in order.





And also when the kids got up on Saturday they found quite a few of the leaves had fallen off the tree out front. So they gathered them up and we made an art activity with them.

Pictures

Finally got around to taking some pictures of the kids today. Sorry for the lack of blogging lately, we've been busy with school.