First Week of School

Here are a few pictures from our first week of school.  I know there will probably be a variety of opinions about this when people read it, but we are trying out homeschooling this year.  We have several friends who are homeschooling now or have done it in the past (and just rave about it), and it has been on my heart pretty much since J was born.  When it came time to enroll him in Kindergarten I just really felt like this was the route we needed to take for now.  So we're doing it!  And liking it so far!  It is a little chaotic right now with the two little ones in the mix and nowhere to put anything in this small, disorganized house, but we're making the best of it.  Here are J and E on the first day of school...

E was very excited (as you can tell), but J was a tad nervous and apprehensive... not knowing what to expect, I think.  Once we got started he cheered up quite a bit.  Then after Daddy came home from work that night we all went to the pool to celebrate our first successful day of school.

Emmett wanted a picture of himself blowing bubbles under the water.  :)

Best buds...

 

Please excuse my ugly legs here, but I was holding Reid like this for a little bit and swinging him up and down and he said out of the blue, "We're moving like a digger!" which I thought was very creative.  :) Diggers are his favorite right now.

We also joined a homeschool group called Classical Conversations to get us out of the house a little bit and help us meet some friends.  Plus I love what the boys are learning there.  We meet at a church once a week for three hours and then all eat lunch together and play on the playground for a little bit.  The boys just LOVED their first day this past week.  Here they are during our "fine arts" time learning about the 5 basic elements of shape...

Davis found school totally exhausting.  Lol.

We did have one small little mishap that week... I was working with J and E and noticed it was kind of quiet and thought to myself, "Where is Reid?"  I heard some water running in the bathroom so I knew he was in there, but then I got sidetracked and didn't check on him for a few minutes like I should have. When I went in there he was up on a little stool "brushing his teeth" with just water and there was only a little water spilled on the countertop so I figured that wasn't too bad.  So I just brought him out to the kitchen and made everyone a snack.  E walked by Reid's plate on the way to his seat and said, "What's all this hair on Reid's tray?  Yuck!"  I thought maybe it was just crumbs that looked like hair to E, but then when I went to check I saw this...

... and then it all came together for me... the scissors on the bathroom counter next to the sink where Reid was brushing his teeth... Duh!  He had cut a chunk out of his hair on the top of his head.  I am SO THANKFUL that he didn't cut off a fingertip and that you can't really tell where he cut.  Needless to say, I'm making sure to keep an extra close eye on R from now on.  Other than that, the week went really well!  haha!