This past week started a different chapter in the Smith house, we started Homeschool. We chose to use the My Father's World curriculum. So far, we are really enjoying it. Cynthia is in Kindergarten this year and Molly is listening in on that and doing some Preschool work. Elsie walks around getting into things and stealing anything she can off the school table!
Our first week was spent reviewing the first 5 days of creation, numbers 1-5 and letters A-K. We've been focusing on letter recognition and sounds. Cynthia has been focusing on learning to write each letter and reviewing what she already knew. Molly is focusing on learning sounds and learning pre-writing skills. Both girls are doing great and even asked on Saturday to do school!
We converted part of our basement into a school area and it is working out great! I like the fact that we have a designated school area.
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| Our School Area |
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| Love our owl alphabet! |
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| Working hard! |
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| Elsie likes to be sitting in a chair too. |
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Cynthia helped me make cookies one day. Her favorite part was licking the beaters!
Playing with her babies!
Showing off her new "hat"
Cynthia's favorite time of the day is when Daddy comes home!!
Cynthia had fun playing with one of my pots one night while I was making supper!
Playing in a box. She somehow got this way all by herself too!
Daddy makes a great piano bench!
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Josh and I had the great opportunity of going to visit his parents in Florida for Christmas this year. The trip was awesome and for me a welcome reprieve from the snow and cold of Illinois! We flew down on Christmas Eve and flew home on New Years Eve. I was slightly worried about how Cynthia would do flying, but she was great! We ended up hanging out at the airport for 5 hours on Christmas Eve and she was an angel the whole time! She slept our first flight down and was awake during the 2nd flight, but played nicely the whole time. On the way home, she basically slept the whole way!!
Cynthia enjoyed getting to know her Smith Grandparents better and we all enjoyed the opportunity to visit with family. Josh's sisters Julie and Jenny were also home!
Here are a few pictures from our trip. You can see more
here.
One of our many visits to the beach!
Watching the sunset together.
Cynthia with Grandma and Grandpa ("Papa") Smith
Family picture taken on Christmas day.
Note: we're OUTSIDE with short sleeves!! :)
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Josh's sister Jenny spent the weekend with us last weekend. On Sunday we had to take her to Rockford to meet her ride back up North. While we were waiting for her ride we stopped at a beautiful State Park nearby. We had a great time playing in the leaves. Cynthia enjoyed having lots of new things to look at.
Enjoy the pictures!
Group shot
Practicing walking on a long bridge
Having fun in the leaves
Cynthia and "Nenny"
Family photo
I'm finally starting to look pregnant instead of just fat!
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I am very much enjoying this age with Cynthia (not that I haven't enjoyed all stages!) Everyday is a new experience and a new thing to learn. I think she adds words to her vocabulary daily! I try to remember the things she's done to fill Josh in when he gets home from work. Here are a few of the fun things from recently!
My Grandmother made me this cape when I was little. We tried it on Cynthia when my mom was here a few weeks ago. Somehow she ended up with the hood on and sunglasses! So we all decided she was preparing for Hollywood!
This isn't a great picture, but here's another disguise for Hollywood!
We were hanging out with Daddy at work for a few minutes Friday night. He was loading up this cart with some computer (Mac) equipment. Cynthia decided she needed a ride on the cart too! She crawled up there on her own!
Tuesday morning we were playing and she found this headband and necklace and started trying to put them both on. So we played Dress-up for a few minutes! She had a ton of fun with it. :)
A friend gave us this duck costume for Cynthia. I decided to try it on her to see if it fit or not. She thought it was funny and kept saying her version of Quack, Quack!
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I had my 20 week ultrasound yesterday. It's hard to believe that we're at the halfway point already. So much has been going on with us that it seems much shorter than that!
Everything is going great with the baby. There is a small problem with my placenta, but they aren't concerned about it, but will do another ultrasound at 28 weeks to check on it.
So, now on to the news that I'm sure you really wanted to hear. We found out we're going to be having another.....
GIRL!!!
We're planning to name her Molly Elyse. Nope, there is no special meaning behind the name, just two girl names we both really like.
Profile shot (sorry these are crooked!)
Here's looking at you!!
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