Days gone by...

We haven't blogged in forever! We've been blessed to have our great-grandparents from Missouri come and stay with us, and words cannot even describe how much fun we've had!! We've gone to several parks and the zoo. Not to mention all the time spent playing games and visiting. You can learn so much from the older people in your lives that you could absolutely never learn from any textbook!! They posses the patience and understanding to make any conversation exciting for BabyGirl and I know she took so much from them. We cannot wait to see them again and it just can't come soon enough!!

We were able to go to the home school bowling and had a blast! This was the first time BabyGirl has bowled and loved it! She would just throw that ball with everything she had every time! It will be a fun thing to look forward to every month.

Along with all the fun, we've been keeping up with our tiny reading lesson once a day. She seems to really enjoy doing that later in the day, so sometimes we even do that right before dinner. I am so pleased with how well she grasps each lesson and can already sound out small words. We've done a couple numbers in our journal and read books about anything that's interesting her. We've read about Paul Bunyan, rainbows, lightning, the water cycle, sinking and floating, etc. We've done several worksheets here and there, and are preparing some fun things for the month of October.

So , here we are I guess...back to reality :) In this past week I've learned quite a bit myself. I've learned that things don't have to be planned or taught necessarily the way we think. They can come in all sorts of ways, through the people we love, through the fun activities we share each and every day, and most of all having fun and learning through life. I love investigating everything that BabyGirl asks. I can't even believe sometimes the questions she comes up with at 4 years old! "What is past space?" "What is the last number? If I counted my whole life would I ever reach it?" I'll wrap this up with something we read last night that really touched me. I had to read it several times over. It's out of the Magic School Bus book Ups and Downs A Book About Sinking and Floating. Ms. Frizzle says "If you don't look, you'll never see. And what you don't see can be very hard to find." Here's to all the things we're looking for....