Madi is 10!!

My baby girl turns ten today! It is so hard to believe. The time has flown. The celebrating started this weekend and will probably continue for a lot of the week. Madi has always been such a blessing to us. She was such a sweet baby, with big bright eyes. She has always brought joy to our family, and she shares this joy with others. She has more friends than I can possibly count and excells in whatever she does . She makes me so proud to be her mother. I love you Madison Marie!

The end of an era

We've had bleachers in our back yard almost the whole time we've lived here. They were fun, useful, and certainly a conversation piece, but they are rotting and have probably been unsafe for a while, so they are coming down.

Jake-o-lantern

My baby lost his first tooth yesterday!!

School work

Here are some pictures of how we use our curriculum...

Today while learning about the French Revolution we made quiche.

A few weeks ago, we made quill pens like they used in colonial times, with real feathers, berries, and vinegar.

When we learned about plant and animal classification (taxonomy), we had to sort shoes.

embedded link?

I am trying to learn how to do an embedded link. Let's try the children's theatre website.

American Idol/ Dancing with the Stars

I've been commenting on other blogs about American Idol and I figured it was time to post it on my own. From last week to this week, I've changed my top 10 around quite a bit so for now, let me just go on record as saying my top 4...in no particular order...David Cook, Brooke White, David Archuletta, and Michael Johns. I keep changing my mind about who I like best, but I will be very surpirsed if 5 weeks from now these aren't the four that are left. I think my absolute favorite is Michael Johns, but they are all great.

As for Dancing with the Stars, I'm going to predict that for the first time since season 1 a woman is going to win...Kristi Yamaguchi.

For years we weren't hooked on any TV shows, but we've been loving Dancing with the Stars since the middle of season 2. Last season was the first time we got into American Idol, now we are addicted to that too!

What was in the baskets?

The bunny hides chocolate eggs at our house. Madi found the most (no surprise there). They also got some m&ms, peanutbutter eggs, and then little snack packages of cookies, fruit snacks etc. Jonathan and Madi got "wonka eggs" because they are going to be in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in May, and Jake got a hollow chocolate bunny. Madi got a skirt, socks and a headband, Jonathan got a swim shirt, and Jake got a cars bathingsuit. They all got pencils and these great holy books (http://stjosephbooks.com/). I'm trying hard to make this link work, but I'm not sure if it is going to! OK, I tried the link , it doesn't go to the books exactly, but I'm sure they are on the site somewhere, and this is my first link so I'm pretty proud of myself. Please excuse my clearing my throat on the Easter morning video...it is pretty disgusting.