A New School Year Begins

The big kids started school on a Wednesday, and so we took the rest of that week at home to finish getting ready for school at home to begin.  The first day of our homeschool was on the following Monday and we finished by 1pm so we went down to our neighborhood pool for an hour in the afternoon to celebrate the first day of school.

The first week went well minus the regular stuff like just getting back into the swing of things and forgetting basic multiplication facts that they haven't used in a while.  The second week, however, we hit a little hiccup with Drew's Composition work.  Nothing that couldn't be fixed with a lot of extra copywork assigned.  By Wednesday of the that week he was saying Composition was better than the copywork.

This is a random picture of Bobby and his new found "muscles."

Genevieve is still teaching Bobby how to play the piano at a very slow pace.  He is now playing Old
MacDonald daily.

Our newest godson was born and we had his baptism after church one Sunday.  More pictures should be coming soon, but I took this one during the reception.

Genna holding our newest godson

The second week of school Genevieve's DPS appointment finally arrived and she was able to get her permit.  Now we have two drivers in the house!  That exclamation point implies more fear than joy.

Genna and her permit!!!

 

A Busy Weekend

The first weekend after the big kids school started was very full.  Friday night Brian's mom and brother arrived for the weekend.  Brian and I went out on a date while James took Genna to and from volleyball practice that evening for us.  Our Saturday started with Genna having volleyball practice again; then Judah had a his last baseball game.  Hannah had her driver's test and immediately after that she and I went to volunteer at the local Down Syndrome association for kid's craft time.  

We went to a comedy show that was unfortunately more politics than laughs, but oh well.  With all that's going on in the world, can't a girl just go to a comedy show and laugh without having the heaviness of it all even when trying to escape for an hour? 

She passed!!!  We got her the actual license just a couple of days later at the DPS.

Playing Barbies after the craft and music time

Boys just being silly!

He got a sportsmanship and a participation medal.  He was super happy that Nanna and Uncle James were able to go see his last game.

Monday Genevieve had her first volleyball game.  I am not fully convinced that volleyball is a sport though.  There was a lot of hugging.  How can that be a sport?