US Map

A father wanted to read a magazine but was being bothered by his little girl. She wanted to know what the United States looked like. Finally, he tore a sheet out of his new magazine on which was printed the map of the country. Tearing it into small pieces, he gave it to her and said, 'Go into the other room and see if you can put this together. This will show you our whole country today..'

After a few minutes, she returned and handed him the map, correctly fitted and taped together. The father was surprised and asked how she had finished so quickly. 'Oh,' she said, 'on the other side of the paper is a picture of Jesus. When I got all of Jesus back where He belonged, then our country just came together.'

Hmmm, sometimes, it's just too simple.

I got this in my email. It needed to be shared. :-)

Some recent events

I'm sorry, I'm not too consistant here. Last monday, Jacob cut his first tooth, and this morning I dicovered tooth number 2! So far, so good!

Jacob is getting better at sometihng too. Here let me show you:

Lil boy is getting stronger! I was TRYING to bust him in the act of standing up, but he saw me, and was a bit distracted. He likes my "buttons".

The big girls are doing good, and more completion certificates are getting up on the wall. They are excited to be starting their new study books. Not so happy about the new schedual, or responcibilities, but I figure they'll adapt ;)

Busy days

We've had a good start to our school year over all. The girls have been attending class on every school day and working diligently in each subject presented to them. Heather has started finishing off books, and earning certificates ~ and that is inspiring to both big girls to work harder. Anne-Marie's stopped complaining about her work being boring and easy :D Kayleigh had been working on coloring, and is actually coloring things in a picture- square blocks of color over objects. She was counting with me while washing hands.... "0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 15..." When did she pick this up? :D I LOVE my job! We counted for about 5 minutes, objects up to 20. We're getting baby reading cirriculum. Kayleigh wants to be a big girl, and daddy say "yes".

One of Anne-Marie's classes include Automechanics. She and daddy worked on removal and replacement of the brake master cylinder, bleeding the lines, and then preventitive maintence basics. What 10 year old gets shop??? Mine does!

Heather's new class is Home Economics :) She is learning to take over some of the middle sized chores. This includes full room clean ups, laundry shuffle, poop patrol, dishwasher unloading, and table wipedowns, which ever is needed when instructions are given.

So, now that we have 2 running vehicles at the moment, I can start taking the kids on excursions in this cooling weather.

ut oh... someone needs directions. Bye!

Sitting up!

And he's sooo sleepy!

A-bouncin'