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See how brilliant the construction workers in our neighborhood are?

Happy October!!!

I love October! Halloween is my favorite holiday, next to Christmas. After getting our decorations out, I realized we don't have nearly enough. I'm hoping to get some more after the holiday when they roll out the sales!

It's time to decide on costumes for this year. Bond is not a dress up kind of guy, although he did go as a Steelers fan one year. Boo-yeah! I told him one of these years we need to go as Thing 1 and Thing 2. Maybe this will be the year! As for the boys....we haven't decided yet. Dinodude keeps changing his mind. First he wanted to be Mario. Then he wanted to be a blood ghost. As of now he wants to be a skeleton clown. We don't know what he's going to be yet, but I know it won't be too scary. Pokemon King wants to be a Hobo. That's an easy one to do. Rocket wants to be the dinosaur he was last year, but I'm sure it wont fit him. We're trying to talk him into being Pikachu. We already have that costume.

So, to all who read this, please post any costume ideas (preferably very, very, very cheap!) that you have for any of us!

Bond & I started exercising this week. Today is day 4 of the P90X, a very intense workout program. It's going great and I'm hoping we can stick with it. I think since we are doing it together, we'll be able to continue with it. Now we just need to work on nutrition. And that is for ALL of the family!

Hello Autumn!

It's Autumntime! I really enjoy this time of year. I'm one of those people who really likes all four seasons. Once one season has run its course I am ready for the next one.

Summer is over. Goodbye shorts....hello pajama pants! Goodbye hot, humid weather...hello crisp, cool weather. Goodbye green grass (or brown grass)...hello orange, red & yellow leaves. Hello football! Hello Halloween! Hello pumpkins and apples!

Last week we completed our 6th week of homeschool, so we have this week off. I really wanted to actually take the boys some places this week. Unfortunately, Dinodude and Rocket have come down with a nasty cough. Sleep has been almost nonexistent for us this week. On the plus side, Bond found some cough syrup that actually works!!! Sadly, it's tastes terrible, so it's not easy for the boys to take it, but they've been such troopers about it.

Although our lack of sleep and sickness has hindered our activities, I did manage to update Babymoon's clothing and clean up his room. I also hung some pictures up in our Bonus Room. We had nothing on the wall in there. I recently had pictures taken of Wally, Pokemon King, Dinodude and Babymoon, so I wanted to update the room with some pictures. I also hung up some pictures in the upstairs hall. It was looking so bare. Now, it's a whole new area! I'm still hoping to attack the garage. Since we became a two car family again, Bond would like to be able to put his car in the garage too. I'm not sure how that's going to work, but we'll try it.

Look What I Grew!!!

Woohoo!!! My sister-in-law gave me some tomato pepper plants. No peppers yet, but I got some tomatoes!!! Woohoo!!!

Rocket Funny

The other day Rocket was outside playing with the neighbor kids. All of a sudden he comes running in the front door, slams it and looks out the window while panting really hard. I asked him what was wrong and he replies, "P____ (the neighbor girl) is trying to marry me!"

Happy Birthday Yesterday Babymoon!!!

Our First Week Back

All in all, I'd say our first week was a success. It got a little off track in the middle due to some interruptions, but we manage to make it through. I purposely designed Fridays mostly free to make up for any interruptions.

We continued on the path of Math, English, Handwriting, Dictation and the usual. However I will post what they accomplished for their other assignments.

Pokemon King:

He rolled a green for A Midsummer Night's Dream, which means he could do a short skit, act out the story using action figures, or write & perform an original song or poem retelling the story. He chose to act out the story with action figures, but it is too large to post. For three stories, he was fortunate to roll a red on the narration die, which means he got to draw a picture relating to the story.

This is from This Country of Ours:

This is from Robinson Crusoe. This is one of the stories he will be reading for himself.

This is from Madame How & Lady Why:

Dinodude:

He, too rolled a green for Burgess's Animal Book, but the movie is too long to post as well. For these two stories, he rolled a red.

Tree in the Trail

An Island Story:

Rocket:

I've decided to go ahead and do Kindergarten things for Rocket this year. We are using Learning Language Arts Through Literature to learn to read. That is what I used with Pokemon King & Dinodude and it worked very well. He is also finishing the Explode the Code Primer Series. In addition to these we are reading various types of books and I'm also hoping to add in some kind of science. I didn't order Saxon Math 1, which is what I used for Kindergarten. I'm debating whether I should order it or just do some math things on our own. Rocket doesn't turn 5 until December, so I might wait until then. Right now, I would really just like to concentrate on teaching him to read.