Lounge Lizards

This week was awesome, we lounged around lazily reading, playing, and whatever the heck we wanted. It felt like a good time to ease up for a few days, and sometimes you just need to go with that feeling.

Kade had fun at his new play group, he also had a doctor appointment for a strange lump on his tongue. The doctor wants an MRI of it, so we'll see how that goes. I read a great book called My Sister's Keeper, and started The Boy In The Striped Pajamas. I also went on peaceful, long walks each morning. I decided summer would be perfect for me to take a little more time out for myself. I love summer mornings in Arizona!

Friday night, Jaxon received his purple belt in mixed martial arts. He was very happy but learned a tough lesson. He had to perform at the graduation and had a really hard time remembering what came next. He was really wanting to impress his best friend who had come to watch. I felt so bad for him, his eyes were teary and he was so mad at himself for not practicing. I remember back in my cheerleading & drill team days, how awful it felt to be unprepared. Kimball and I are hoping next time he'll take our advice and practice. I was holding off on this post because I'm waiting for a guy to send me better pictures of the graduation. I'll just post what I have for now and add the good ones later.

This is Ryan, Jaxon's fellow class mate. He is much bigger than Jaxon and is also on the elite team, meaning he goes 4x a week rather than 2x. Jaxon is always matched up with him because he's the closest in size/ability. It's pretty cool that Jaxon manages to beat him once in a while...he may be small but he's super aggressive!

Sophia is "Little Miss Independent" and has to help in any way she can. It's SO cute. She seriously just goes around looking for ways to help. If you're tying your shoes, she's right their tightening the laces. If you're putting on your socks, she's tugging on them too. She insists on being the one to hold the sippy cup as we fill it with milk, and gets great satisfaction out of it. I just love watching her grow. Unfortunately yesterday, Sophia had some bad luck. She stepped on another bee and got stung, she ran into our patio furniture and got a black eye, and she hit her forehead on our lazy boy and got a purple goose egg. Poor girl. We made it all better by taking her swimming.

As for our summer schedule, we'll just be finishing up math books (for a few more weeks), doing lots of free reading, going on some fun field trips, knocking out scouting, playing with friends and cousins, and a whole bunch of swimming. We'll still be doing devotional each morning, a. because I think it's important to stay on a routine, and #2 because it helps keep the Spirit in our home. I will be attending the local home school conference, preparing for our next school year, I've always wanted to make lots of homemade bread, so I'll be perfecting my bread making skills and learning how to use my sewing machine.

BTW, I love getting all your emails with home school questions. It's great to see so many of you are going to take the plunge. It's worth it I promise!!