Looks like the posts are turning into a monthly recap of pictures with captions! Great for the grandparents and other relatives far away and good for memories for my sake! Someday I'll get back to more book reviews and details about homeschooling!
In the picture below, Wyatt wrote this all by himself, totally unprovoked! Some nights when Levi has to go to bed earlier than Wyatt (due to whatever naps did or didn't happen that day), Wyatt and Adam play a game that Adam calls "the drawing game". Usually they each take turns drawing something on this Magnadoodle and the other person has to guess what it is. But this one night, Wyatt wrote this. We had just learned about money in school that AM and how our money has "in God we trust" on it. I think he had to ask Adam how to special a few words, but the idea and writing was his own! So Sweet!
Both of the boys love to drag "sticks" out of the woods...they are really more like huge branches! Then they come and tell me that they were hunting and got a "deer" or "bear". Love their imaginations! Here below is one of Wyatt's finds!
This was at our town's "tree lighting ceremony" on the day after Thanksgiving! We love our little town of Waxhaw! They flipped the switches at the same time and all of the Christmas lights along the main street that is on either side of the railroad tracks lit up at the same time! It was awesome! There were Christmas Carolers, a snow machine, hot chocolate, carriage rides, and much more! It was a pretty warm evening though...typical for late November in the Carolinas though!
We started putting up our tree and decorating for Christmas the day after Thanksgiving and all that weekend. The boys love picking out where they want to hang certain ornaments. I have a hard time letting go of my OCD and allowing them to "help". In years past, I would just re-arrange them afterwards and they never noticed. This year, however, they would often ask me why a certain ornament was in a different spot and they would want to move it back to where they had put it! ahh! :-) Oh well!
And a pose with their stockings!
And a silly pose! :-)
The picture below is what my sister lives in for 6 months out of the year! Her husband is a sport evangelist (at least that's how I describe it to people!) They travel w/ the National Hoops Ministry that her brother-in-law started. Their whole entourage consists of 2 Diesel 5th Wheel Trucks that each pull a "trailer". One pulls an equipment trailer and one pulls this very large RV that their family of 5 lives in for a week at a time at different church locations as they travel across the country! Her boys are 4 1/2, 2 1/2, and 7 months! When they were at a church near Charlotte, we were able to meet up w/ them for a day. My boys were so happy to play w/ their cousins and see their "house on wheels"!
And then one of the boys favorite times of year...FALL! and the LEAVES! The following pictures show a little bit of how much fun they had!
