instant win

I just won! A friend of mine has gotten me interested in this. Tonight I won a $15 Best Buy coupon and a free Minute Maid drink from mycokerewards.com. woohoo! :)

Rylie loves to sing. This one is funny because she all of a sudden raises the pitch of her voice. And too because you can't understand what she is saying. :) And at the end of almost every video I have of her she says, "I wanna see."

Homeschool

We are using the Sonlight Curriculum. It is going very well so far. We are on our 6th week. We have Bible, History, Reading, Math, Phonics/Spelling, Handwriting, and Science. We have already finished 2 chapter books and are reading the 3rd. We have read The Boxcar Children Book 1, The Apple and the Arrow, and are currently reading My Father's Dragon. Of course I read the books and the girls listen. They seem to be enjoying it.

So far Olivia's favorite subject is Math. She asks alot of mornings if I will let her do math first. She is already adding numbers like 2+4=6.

Yesterday she read her first 5 words. At, Bat, Fat, Rat, Mat. We have learned letters F, B, M, R, T, and A. The curriculum introduced them in that order and so we are already reading short words formed from those letters. She picked it up fairly easy. I was glad! :)

The website is http://www.sonlight.com/. We are using the Kindergarten curriculum.

Trying to get this blog going again....and homeschooling.

Well, I fell off the blog wagon for some reason. But I am trying to get back on :) I have been reading a few blogs of homeschoolers and thought it might be good (since there are so many people that think my children are not learning a thing) to keep an update on here about what Olivia (and the other 2 at times) are learning. So here goes...........

Outside in January

It was warm enough to play outside today, so I took the opportunity to snap a few pictures.

It's October!

Yes, I am alive! :) Those are just some recent pictures of the girls since I haven't posted any in a while.

The girls have changed so much...especially Rylie. She is walking everywhere now. She started walking at about 11 1/2 months. And she turned 1 on Sept. 29th! Madison will be 3 on the 12th of this month. We have to keep the scissors hidden from Madison because she let Olivia cut her hair once and she cut it once, so it's really bad gapped up on one side and in the back. I didn't want to have it cut as short as I would have had to in order to get it to look right, so I'm just letting it grow back out the way it is. You can see in one of the pictures above that it's short on one side.

We went the other day and had their pictures made. It was an experience! It was hard with 2 to get them to smile but now it's even harder with 3 to get them to all smile and stay in the same position to get the picture. They turned out pretty good though.

Oh and Rylie drank motor oil the other day. It really scared me because we were just walking around outside and I turned around and she had it up to her mouth. I didn't know for sure how much she drank or that she had even drank any, but I could smell it in her mouth. I knew she couldn't have drank much because she didn't even spill any on her shirt, and she always spills whatever she's drinking on her shirt if she gets much of it. I called the poison control center and they said just watch her...so I did and she was fine. It was a scary evening though! And no we don't just leave motor oil around in the yard. David was working on Madison's bicycle at the time and had it there by him. I never thought she would pick it up and drink it...I should have known though!