back to school and yay a new cousin!

We have started school again, in our new school room! Yay! It is so nice to have a room that is all for school, without distracting toys and stuff. The girls have been doing great, and love putting stickers on their chart each day as we finish our various subjects.

This is Kennedy showing off her shapes masterpiece. She is so very smart with visual things. She can do brand-new puzzles all by herself! She loves the challenge, and patiently tries over and over until she gets things right. She also knows all of her capital letters and basically all of her lower case letters. PLUS she now knows what sound almost all of the letters say! Hooray! I love this little fireball and her spunky little 'tude!


This is Reagan working on a teddy bear graph during math time. She is such a good learner. I am always amazed at just how much information she retains. When daddy comes home and asks what she learned in various subjects, she easily recites almost everything I taught her. From what the heart and lungs do, to how Joseph's brothers threw him in a pit and sold him as a slave, to what a noun is! Plus she always, always wants to be reading. She loves the Magic tree house books lately. Oh, and she brings imaginary friends from her books with her everywhere we go. Her imagination is always entertaining and her love of learning makes me so proud!


One of our new subjects is writing. We do spelling and grammar, but I decided to include writing now. Here is her first letter to her Aunt and Uncle in Virginia. We plan on writing to various family members that live out of state, so feel free to write back! :)


Still loving playgroup, this week we went sledding. Isn't this the coolest sled?

And finally, we got to meet our newest niece! After a 22 hour labor, Becky and Brock welcomed Savannah into the world! We were sooooooo excited to meet her! And I didn't want to stop holding her! :)

Just an hour old or so!

This is how Rick and Dennis passed some of the time in the waiting room. Playing catch with a leather glove... Hilarious!