Soccer

Cameron started a soccer class today. He was so excited to go. He said he's been waiting his whole life to play.

DCT - The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

We met up with the SAIL homeschool group to see the True story of the 3 little pigs at Dallas Children's Theater. Great performance! Apparently the big bad wolf has a bad rap. Carson particularly liked that the audience participated in the show.

Fancy Dinner

Cooking steaks on our new pit tonight, baked sweet potatoes and zucchini. The kids keep saying that we're camping at home.

Jr Engineering - Door alarm

Today at jr engineering, the boys made door alarms. First they played a circuit game with their friends and then they put together their circuits. Carson needed minimal help, but Cameron was not into it today and I pretty much did his. Once all the wires were connected, the alarm worked pretty well. Carson even wired the door where is the class was held.
At home, Carson rigged the alarm from the garage door that leads into the house. When my Mark arrived home, he actually tried to do it quietly so he wasn't attacked by children before he had a chance to change his work clothes. From the other side of the house, the alarm gave him away. It was so funny to see the look on his face!

Heritage Farmstead

The boys and I took a step back in time this morning. We visited Heritage Farmstead in Plano (http://www.heritagefarmstead.org/) for a special homeschool day. They turned butter, made their own homemade biscuits over a campfire, toured a historical home decorated in period furniture, took a wagon ride, visited a one room schoolhouse, learned about vintage toys, and played with their friends. It was so cold but they loved it.

New Year Party

We met up with one of our home school groups today to celebrate the new year. The kids had a good time with laser tag, bowling and arcade.

My little scientist

Sitting at breakfast today, daydreaming 7yo chimes in, "Mom, if the atoms that make up my chair weren't stuck together, they would be all over the ground!"

Dallas World Aquarium

The boys and I met up with dozens of friends from one of our homeschool groups at the Dallas World Aquarium. We had most of the facility to ourselves and we just ran from exhibit to exhibit enjoying them with friends. The manatees and otters were so fun to watch. The boys were right next to the penguins being fed and as you can see from the photo, Carson didn't like the smell of their food. We stayed long enough to enjoy the shark feeding which was pretty exciting. What a great day it was!

Finished!

Carson just finished reading the 7th and final Harry Potter book. He read the entire series on his own. He really enjoyed them and I expect to see him read them over and over again.

Book Club

Carson read Edwina Victorious for book club this month. Good book that brought about a lot of issues the kids enjoyed discussing.

Chess Club

Carson joined a homeschool chess club today. It's only once a month, but he is thrilled to meet and play with chess buddies.

2nd front tooth

All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth.

Snow!

Big snowflakes this morning! Cameron's ready to go make a snowman in Carson just wants to read all day.
We finally all went outside and had a big snowball fight.

PE Class

This is Carson in his new athletics class. The class is huge and this photo isn't even half of the boys. They play kickball, football, soccer, baseball, and all kinds of other games. He loves it.

Art class

This is what art class looked like this week.

Missing tooth

Carson lost his first front tooth this morning. He's growing up way too fast!

Happy New Year 2011!

We had some friends over with kids the same age as our boys to celebrate the new year. We had some fireworks and sparklers and had a great time. Everyone made it to midnight except Cameron. He missed it by only 30 minutes.