May 23, 2008 – Dayspring Disciples

I should say, “another week of winter!!!” Boy it has been cold. We did enjoy a mild day on Tuesday, thankfully, as Beau and I went to a 5½ hour field trip on the Underground Railroad conducted in the city. It was a wonderfully educating trip. It was mostly over his head, but he behaved respectfully and I loved it. Here is Beau and his buddy, Frederick Douglass.

My newpasttime is watching groundhogs. I spend a lot of time at the kitchen sink or at the school table in the dining room. Both settings afford a wonderful view of the backyard and the goings-on of our resident groundhogs. I am now working to get pictures of the happy, GROWING family. Harvey, Helen and the kids are reluctant to have me capture their images. I will get back to you. Just call me Dian Fossey. Or not.

Champ’s doing fantastic with reading. His sentences this week included silent letters, “The dumb lamb knows how to climb in my lap and nestle.” He thinks it is a bit odd to have so many silent letters. Um, yeah, so do I!

Skeezix is a trip. She offered to “put the wrappers on [sic] Angel’s shoes.” She meant if I put the shoe on, she’d do the velcro straps.

I forgot to share this photo from Mother’s Day. After a fun craft of tracing hands during Sunday School, she decided to replicate the project… on my dining room chair. This is her saying, “Not me.”

And Angel. Funny little kid. Champ is trying to teach her animal sounds. *sigh* They all sound so much alike!

While we went to the Underground Railroad, the kids hung out at our friends’ house. Afterward we all hung there for dinner. Angel and her fried Bear went for a stroll.
And Champ, not aware of his own strength, bumped into Skeezix, and well…