Wowsers! End of the Month Already?!?

Hard to believe it is the end of the month already. Where has time gone? How have we use up almost 30 complete days already?  In this month there has been:

• 5 Saturdays
• 5 Sundays
• 1 holiday
• 19 school days
• 2 birthdays
• 1 extended family dinner
• 6 baseball games
• 1 weekend Boy Scout camping trip
• 5 baseball practices
• 2 co-ops
• 1 flat tire
• 1 trip to Salvation Army for donations
• 1 trip to Haz Mat (I really don't like those CFL bulbs!!!!!!!!!!!)
• 1 Mom's Meeting
• 5 Sunday services
• 3 times to play bass guitar
• 1 date night & not having to pay for childcare
• 15 therapy sessions
• 9 Tae Kwon Doe meeting times with anywhere from 1 to 3 classes taken each time
• 4 Boy Scout Meetings
• 2 dental appointments
• countless grocery shopping trips

And that, dear readers, is a wrap for September.  Good night and bring on October!

 

First day of Co-op

We're officially in our fifth week of school this year, but today marked the first day of co-op. It was fun seeing friends from last year, meeting new folks, and seeing the sparkle in my kids eyes as they were telling me about their classes. Think Thing one is the most excited about co-op this year; he is taking a cooking class and "Dangerous Boys" AND his best friend is in both classes. Thing two is taking free play/games (which for him is a good thing because he is a ball of energy) and Galloping the Globe; believe his best friend is in at least one of his classes which is nice too. Hopefully it won't cause trouble for their teachers because they can be a handful.

Couple things about the photo. First, yes, I'm late on the "first day of school" photo and I usually take them at the front door. This seemed appropriate, when I thought about because we home school and we've done/completed some school in the car. Second note, thing two is distracted by our neighbors dog, who had just been let out and likes to take a quick run through our yard. Not a big deal, because Bandit is a sweet dog and we've encouraged it.

So, there you have it, our official, first day of school photo for 2010/2011 school year.

Legos

Any school day that Legos can be used, should be counted as a good day. Thing One joined a Lego Team, at co-op last week. Their homework was to design a picture for their logo. What better way to design a team logo for "Lego Force" than to spell out it with Legos. Thing One really enjoyed working on this and thought it would be good to add some clone troopers and bounty hunters. Without further adieu, here's his design ~