Thursday, April 28, 2011

Spring Break 2011





Well last week consisted of a lot of this! Sand, sun, surf, pool!
Easy living on Hilton Head Island at our Marriott timeshare, Surf Watch. We fell in love with it years ago and are sure to get there at least once per year. I tried really hard to bring educational books with me that pertained to the beach but I found that I was enjoying some downtime and didn't get in all I wanted. We did do a nature walk and wrote down trees, flowers, and bushes that were marked. We had a lovely family of ducks in the resort pond that entertained us as well. An Earth Day trash pick-up proved to be a great morning of finding ocean wonders, although this excellent find happened completely by accident when the tide was waaaaaay out. We have another fall beach trip planned that I will be more prepared for so I hope some of the books I got will be of use then. All in all it was a great week and I brought home some tan and happy kids! Now back to work-ugh!

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Life rolls on.....


It seems that finding time to blog is nearly impossible! I have started TOG (Tapestry of Grace) and will blog on my results later. As for today......Wildman turns 5!!! We did his birthday on Sunday and Soccer Star designed him an Angry Birds cake! I have to say that it really did look amazing. While he spent the day at Grandma and Grandpa's the girls took to decorating and organizing games for him. He was very surprised to be the celebrity when he got home that night. He is such a unique and crazy little guy. I have discovered that he is an auditory learner which makes the alphabet a bit of a challenge for him but we are about 3 letters away. He has most of the sounds though, which is great. I am waiting for all of the signs to start active teaching but he is still just a little boy who would rather throw balls and play with dirt. Sigh. Like I said....life rolls on!