Oh how we miss you all!!

This week we had the pleasure of visiting friends. The Jones family was our weekly playdate until they moved down the peninsula last year. We had a great time with them at the park and beach last week. We sure do look forward to their next visit or our opportunity to go down and check out Miami!!

Park day with the Jones Family

Cuneiform (writing on clay tablets performed in ancient times) Modernized!!!

This week we were studying ancient forms of writing. The Palm boys and Preston had a great time "printing" their names and then adding many embellishments of their own. Our other history excitement is that our "Nile River" project from last week is sprouting grass ...so it worked!! It may be dead by the next time I post however, Preston has a watering fetish. Flooding has been a problem this week!!

So true

Just another beautiful Saturday outdoors

Making the Nile River with The Palm Boys was Great Fun

History re-created

We are having the wonderful pleasure of doing our history and science projects with our homeschooling neighbors and great friends,The Palms. They have four boys like us so we just find it amazing to live in the same neighborhood, homeschool and have four boys. Needless to say it is quite a blessing in more than one way to our family. In the photos below, the boys are to be pretending they are nomads (which is what we are studying in ancient history) and building a hut in which to live. They were supposed to use anything they could find to create this. (rocks, sticks, leaves etc) Anyway, as you can see from the photos, they incorporated some modern day items as well such as a fence and bungee cord. We gave them an "A" for effort and had quite a good laugh to say the least!!

Modern day NOMADS

Hurricane Ike affecting our nomads from afar

Rebuilding the hut

PEE WEE Football

Well, Preston is playing flag football and it is the cutest thing. From the bulky jersey to the big ol mouth piece it just cracks me up!! His team is the Giants. Football is a first for us. We have done most other "boy" sports but we decided to give this a try at the urging of a good friend. She had experienced it up north and said it was so fun...we agree after two weeks however, we are missing the northern weather to further enhance that football feeling! Preston, is getting the hang of the game. He scored a touchdown the first game (probably by accident) but now anything less is disappointing. However, we do look forward to flag football Saturdays!! Enjoy the cute slideshow below

FLAG FOOTBALL