Fall Break Week

 It's Tuesday of the week following, and I knew I should have kept more careful records, but I didn't.

And now I regret it.

We got out on a hike only one day.

He's pretending something is attacking his arm from the hole.

I love that someone set up a fairy/dwarf house in this hole!



Hands down the best part of the day was this field of clover that we stopped to hunt through.




4 leaf clover!

Everyone found 4 and 5 leaf clovers!!!!

She turned around to tell me something . . . I don't remember what!

Before we walked, we explored the nature center.

Everyone is so big.

They all used to be so small.


This was such a funny experience!!!
The sign said the pack was 45 lbs.  Ladybug, who wants to be a firefighter tried to pick up the pack and put it on.
She couldn't!!!
She almost fell over trying to.
We were dying--why couldn't she pick up a 45 lb pack???
It was chained to the stand.
With a 12" chain.
😂😂😂




Lola slid down this slide for over 2 minutes straight.
Just the one time.
In just this one position.
2 minutes of slow, slow, slow sliding.


Then we found a floor mat that showed how far a rabbit can jump with the challenge to see how far you can jump.

My kids can jump really far!!!

My big boys crossed the 7 foot mark in a standing long jump!!

I worked my way up to 4 feet. 😐

I guess I should be proud I can still jump at all.

During the week, we worked on Gilgamesh every day.  

We still have 30+ pages to go.  

It's a really good read (when edited)!

But what a long process this has been!

We finished The Hobbit.

It was so satisfying.

We moved on to Bud, Not Buddy.  And this book is banned from bedtime reading because it is too powerful for the kids to handle when they're supposed to be settling down.

We switched to The Witches for a funny, silly, entertaining read for the evening.   

We're reading about Bud during the day when we have longer to process our emotions.

We went to the gym 3 times.

We had a peaceful library day.

We served some church friends on Monday and Friday.

And I completely reconsidered how we're doing school.

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