School pictures

While I was in the picture taking mood the other night, I went ahead and did some of our school age kiddos for their school pictures.

Rachel-The Kindergartner I can't believe my baby is school age!!! She is doing great, we are finishing up on her phonics/alphabet book, and are about to start learning to read. I am actually excited to begin with her. I was so frustrated last year at this time b/c Noah was really struggling, and I thought he would never learn, and I didn't know what I was doing teaching him....and now him and Leah are both reading chapter books, and all that stress is just a distant memory. I am glad to be beginning this with her having that knowledge so that I don't have to stress myself through this process.

Leah- My goodness.....can I say how this girl has been growing?? She has really changed this past year, and she is now a young lady, not a little kids anymore. Truly, most of the time she seems like my oldest child, not the middle. And these first 2 pictures of her, Noah took. Yep. He grabbed my camera and was taking pics of baby Z while I was sitting by him, and Leah came along, and I have to say..brother is a PRO! He did a much better job at getting a genuine smile out of her than I did.
Leah is my 1st grader. She is also the speller of the family. It comes very natural to her, and if she doesn't know how it is spelled, I only have to tell her once, and she will always remember it. She loves to read. She just voluntarily sits down to read throughout the day. She is also my colorer, and the child that takes her time on all her work, to make sure she does her very best. I can see a lot of myself, how I was in school at her age, in her. If she is interested, she loves it. If she isn't interested, then she just don't care in the least. That is so me.

And I just realized that I didn't get the b/w one of her on here, and now I am on the other computer. I will have to add that one later. This one below is the one I took. I like this one too..but the one above is just more genuine. Does anyone else think she looks older than Noah?? I do. She is not maybe a 1/2 inch shorter than him. She is gonna be tall like her momma.

Noah-I love how this one captures the craziness of his 7 year old teeth! It is about to get crazier b/c he has 2 more top teeth loose.

Ha ha...we don't really know if we are a 1st or 2nd grader! I know that sounds crazy to not know what grade you are in. I have him registered as a 2nd grade homeschooler, and that is his accurate grade. BUT...when I put him in public school, I put him in as a 1st grader, and after I pulled him out, I said he was a 2nd grader again, but he said he wanted to stay a 1st grader. So, who knows what we are! I would say he is probably somewhere in between level learning wise. I am thinking by the end of the year he will for sure be a 2nd grader. I am glad to have my boy back home. He is my child that remembers just about everything I teach, and gets excited about everything we learn. It is so fun!

And if anyone knows Noah, you can probably tell what he is doing in this pose below. He is aiming his pretend light saber at me.