Showing posts with label roller skating. Show all posts
Showing posts with label roller skating. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Early September


Another big melon haul.

That was one huge cantaloupe!

Watching the farmer bale our hay.

And there's a bale!

Catherine and Grandma at Grandma's house.

Anne at Grandma's.

Daddy and the kids with Grandma.

Another pose.

Watermelon haul was moved to the basement to help them last longer.

The farmer came to get the hay bales.

A big load!

Unpacking the sauerkraut.

Kids ate it right out of the crock.

5+ gallons loaded into the fridge!

We made it to the September homeschool roller skating party.

Go, Anne, go!

Taking a break.

Limbo time.


Thursday, May 14, 2015

March Mishmash


At the beginning of March, we made it again to the homeschool roller skating session.  The kids once again loved it, and Anthony was much improved at skating, so it was a little less work for me.  Pictures of  Anthony, though, were much too blurry to use!  
Joseph and Anne. 

The twins took a break.

Dominic and Catherine did the limbo.



In the middle of the month, we met some friends at the Spiritual Life Center in Wichita, where we did the outdoor Stations of the Cross. 
The empty tomb, symbolizing the Resurrection, in the middle of the stations.

It was perfect for a bunch of kids during Lent!

Afterwards, we went walking on some of their nature trails.



I made a peach pie in honor of pi day:




The MagnaTiles that Anthony got for Christmas came in very handy for Joseph's geometry lesson:
Perfect for those tough shapes: triangular prism and pyramid!





Catherine reading to Anthony.  Love it!



At the end of March, we watched cousins so their mom and dad could go out on a date:
Picnic dinners in spring are the best.

Baseball.

He might have had his helmet on backwards, but he was ready to bat the ball!

Boys played basketball.

Little ones blew bubbles.



The next night we ate dinner outside again:
Look at that ornery face right in the front!

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

At the Roller Rink

Once a month on a Friday, a Wichita roller rink holds an afternoon session for homeschoolers.  We went for the first time in early December.  The three older kids have roller skates and have skated in our garage and out onto the sidewalk and the part of the driveway that is paved, but they had never skated at a rink before.  They loved it!
Dominic
Anne

Anthony had never really skated before, so I had to help him learn how to balance on his skates.  It was a lot of work!
Anthony practiced on the carpet.

Shall we go out onto the floor?

Doing the limbo.

Joseph made it!

Catherine

Joseph

Watching one of the races.

Dominic was ready to race.