This was definitely one of our busier weekends, yesterday the zoo, today was the MD Sheep & Wool Festival The girls weren't totally sure about going (but mommy, if all we're going to do is look at sheep, when can we PLAY?) but seemed to enjoy it once we were there. We spent some time at the sheep barns, wandered through the selling area enough to ( Read more... )

FINALLY we get some nice weather!!! We've pretty much spent all week outside!! The girls are loving it ( Read more... )

We've been keeping busy, but nothing too exciting going on around here. Some random highlights from the last week or two ( Read more... )

The girls were watching Berenstain (sp? as many of those books as I've read I SHOULD know how to spell it LOL) Bears today & I wasn't paying attention but it must have been something about not wanting to do homework, because Lexie told me "I'm too young for homework". I pointed out that if we have homeschool there won't be homework, which triggered ( Read more... )

The girls are currently dancing/running around the family room saying "ching, ching, ching  . . ." this means they are making a pirate movie. Now, I'm quite certain they don't know enough about what/who pirates are to even know WHY they're saying "ching ching" but that's what Shane & David did when they made their pirate movie, so obviously, that's ( Read more... )

L has the coins out of her piggy bank spread on the floor & is playing some sort of heads or tails game. She keeps asking me, essentially "heads or tails" & then tossing the coin in the air to see how it falls. BUT instead of heads or tails, she has asked me, Penny: people or bridge? (hey, the Lincoln memorial looks kinda like a bridge!), Quarter: ( Read more... )

Lexie brought me a picture she'd drawn this morning & told me "it's a picture of a whale's insides. I looked at it & it was essentially a whole page of red lines scribbled around. I said "Oh is that the blood vessels?" She said "Yes, that's the blood, and the bones are under the blood" Guess we've got basic anatomy down LOL ( Read more... )