Science Fair

Today was the homeschool Science Fair. It was great. So laid back, no rules, just fun, and letting the kids show off what they had done. I really liked that. This was the first time we had met with that group, and it was so much fun! Thanks to Suzanne for inviting us!

Here the kids were gathered visiting with their friends when we first arrived. They were just carrying their projects like they were so grown! I am going to post a few more pictures on our school blog if you want to see more.

Leah and her Camel...."why do Camel's have humps?"

Rachel and her Hippos...."Why do Hippos sleep under water?"

Noah and his telegraph

Our friend did the Mentos and Diet Coke experiement. We went outside and he demonstrated for us, and it was so cool!

Loving it!!

We all agreed that this trampoline will be an early combined birthday present for the 3 of them. Their birthdays aren't until the summer, so we wanted them to go ahead and enjoy it during this nice spring weather! They are having so much fun on it, and I love watching them. Clay and I have even gotten on there a few times with them and had a lot of fun.

Noah really enjoys just lying there, and gets mad when the girls want to jump while he wants to read. I must say, it is very peaceful in there. It is like you are in your own little space.

That Rachel is a tough egg to crack! She gets herself so tight, nobody can crack her. Even when I was on there jumping, she was bouncing all around, and I still couldn't crack her. It is so funny.

I love these guys!

As you see, everyone is enjoying our trampoline. The kids know they can't jump, but they are always asking for Zachariah to get on there with them just to lay on it with them. They are very good about being still when he is on there, they just don't want to leave him out. Clay got on there tonight, and I love these pictures of these 2. Especially the first one!

It is a trampoline.

Notice Leah helping above?? Well that lasted all of a minute, and then she abandoned ship. She went in the house and relaxed while everyone else helped. So, once it was together, we didn't tell her it was up, so the other 2 got a head start jumping while we were trying to figure out how to put together the enclosure. She discovered soon enough, and was out there. That girl was jumping, and jumped right off the side of that thing! After that, no more jumping until we go the enclosure on. They are so excited, they love this thing!

Wordless Wednesday

Look what we got today!

Can you tell??

working on projects

We have been busy busy around here. I can't keep up. I am going to try to catch up over time if I can. Right now, we are back in full swing with school. We are going to participate in a homeschool science fair which will be Friday of this week, so we have been working on it this week. Today, we worked on covering boxes with paper mache, and we will paint them tomorrow. The girls are both doing theirs on animals, and we are trying to make the box look like their habitat. Hard to explain, I will post pictures when we get finished.

Clay and Noah built a telegraph out of a Civil War book we are studying from right now. It actually works....it is really cool!