Abbie's first date

Abbie is going on her first date!

Don't smile Katherine!

Pics

Guess who found my phone and took 275 pictures.

Oct 1 tradition

We have a tradition of eating Halloween doughnuts and drinking apple cider and watching Ichabod and the headless horseman the Disney version on October 1. Katherine thought it was Halloween day and she was so excited. She thought that's what you did on Halloween day.

Dollies

The girls were rocking their dollies to sleep. See if you can catch the name of Abbie's doll.

Testing

Seeing if this works. Today we went to Nana's house and we went out to eat

learning

I recently read that kids can learn more than we think they can. So when Ryan challanged the boys to learn all the countries in Africa, I decided to see how much they could handle. Normally I would have had them just memorize about 5 at a time, but this time I kept adding just one more, or just a little later in the day would add a few more. By the end of the day, Nathan had them all memorized and Alex had gone to bed just before learning all of them. Had he stayed up (Nathan and I are night owls but Alex isn't), he would have had them all memorized too. You know, I wonder now how many Katherine could memorize. I'll try it.

Summer Token Economy

Alex and Nathan’s summer token economy

30 minutes= 1 token

White: Jr. Master Gardeners OR 4-H OR boy scouts

Blue: math drill

Purple: 5^th grade math

Orange: read nonfiction book

Green: read fiction book

Red: write (a story, letter, etc.)

Yellow: practicing instrument

Katherine's tokens:

15 minutes= 1 token

Pink: reading lesson

Blue: journal

Purple: Little Keepers

Red: Reading to Katherine

REDEEM:

Swimming: 2 tokens of different colors

Icees: small 3 tokens of different colors, medium 4 tokens of different colors, largest 5 tokens of different colors

Lagoon: 5 tokens of each of the 7 colors

Scooter: 2 of each of the 7 colors

Camping: one set of all the colors

Hiking: 2 tokens of different colors

Costumes: 1 set of all the colors is $20 toward costume
(the boys really wanted Captain America and Thor costumes)

Ice skating: 3 tokens of different colors

Bike ride date: 2 tokens of different colors

Other activity (dino museum, etc.)- negotiable

CANNOT BE TRADED IN FOR MONEY

CAN BE TRANSFERRED TO A SIBLING if you want them to come with you on your activity

ENDS AUG. 31