Some of June's happenings......

We are starting to pack for our big move across the country.  But we still have lots of stuff going on.  This post and the next three posts are from June 2011.

We are at the pool almost everyday.  Rose joined our local swim team.  They have practice 4 days a week, plus she likes to go to the pool at different times to just play around.

She is pretty good at sorting socks.....and if you do sock puppets during it....well, it is just that much more fun!  (By the way...I didn't ask her to sort socks.  She was looking at the sock basket on the dryer and asked me if she could sort them.)  She has great initiative!

Remember our pet Honey Bunny?  When we saw this rabbit in our backyard .....Rose decided that it is Honey's child and she comes to visit us, since Honey told her fabulous stories about our family.

We were able to get together with Andrew Hortman, his mom, and sister for an afternoon, one last time before we moved.  Remember Andrew?  I watched him and taught him and Rose preschool together. 

After our friend, Tianje, heard about Rose going to Chuck E Cheese for her birthday, she wanted to go too.  So we all went.  Rose and Tianje had a great time.  The highlight was when Rose won bonus tickets, getting 250 at one time! 

Here is a diorama she made with her Chuck E Cheese clay.

Rose has been enjoying doing sticker books

and hand sewing.  She is currently working on a redwork doll quilt.

Oh and I also discovered Norwex cleaning clothes.  I have been trying to keep chemicals and toxins out of my home for the past 7 years, already.  These make it even easier for me to achieve that.  I love these things.  Rose loves them too!  My friend Connie sells them, if you want to get some. I pretty much have my whole house converted over to them.  (I may do a separate post about them later.)

And here I am doing one of my favorite things.......holding a baby.  ...Matthew C. at my Norwex party.

More June coming soon.....

Winner - My First Giveaway

The winner of my first giveaway is......
(I asked Rose to pick a number!)

She picked......

#5.


Congratulations to Samantha!  I will be sending you your free copy of Answers Magazine.


That was fun....I think I will be doing more giveaways on here!!

My first GIVEAWAY !!

I thought it would be fun to do a giveaway!

I have been enjoying my subscription to Answers Magizine, by Answers in Genesis.  

I read it aloud to Rose, plus they have a kids insert magazine in each issue that she really enjoys.

They sent me a new magazine of an issue we already had (by mistake).  So I thought instead of hoarding it, I should pass it along.   How fun is that?

The Kids Magazine in this issue is Yuckology!!  A very fun topic. 

It is the 2011 April-June issue.  I know it is now July, but since I haven't blogged about our June yet....it is all good, right?

$7.20 plus shipping VALUE.  Your cost - FREE :0) 

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Giveaway is open until Midnight on Friday July 15th.

Other May happenings

Here are some more things from May (snippets that didn't make their own post).....

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Our homeschool group had our end of the school year party and field day.

getting lined up for tug-o-war

 pull!  This tug was kids vs moms....the kids won!  (that's a lot of kids!)

 Rose and her sweet friend Lily W.

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Rose is a good helper around the house.  She does well with the laundry, cleaning, and helping me cook and bake.

My little chef!

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We sometimes walk over to the little lake in our neighborhood.

Here she is feeding the ducks.

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We went to another Homeschool Conference this month.  Not as big the one last month, but still very nice.  Rose did some exploring with her friend Autumn around the exhibit hall and found a Math game she really liked.  I think this is the game:
Albert's Insomnia
I am thinking about getting it for her.  Have any of you ever played it?
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Lately Rose has been making a lot of things with her melty beads.  She can do it pretty independently, too.
 
First she places all the beads on the form.  She often uses tweezers for this step.

Then she turns on the iron and gets some wax paper.  Irons the beads until they melt.  Peels it off the form and irons the other side.


Here is a video she wanted to record
(if you are viewing this in a feed, email, or facebook you may need to click HERE to view the video)

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Daddy walks to the train station and rides the train to work.
On occasion when it is close to time for daddy to be home, we will walk up the street to meet daddy walking home from the train station.
Here daddy and Rose are walking back to the house after we had met him part way.

And that is a peek in to our May 2011.