January Shennanigans

January has arrived..... back to the daily grind of school and weekly activities.....

For 100th day of school, they had to dress like they were 100 yrs old.  We all know how much Devan likes to dress up.... so we compromised and put him in a button down and khakis like "grandpas" wear.

A neighbor several doors down has an amazing garden.  She stopped by one day and offered to trade veggies for some of our grapefruit.  We definitely got the better end of the deal on this!  Each week she would drop off a giant grocery bag full of stuff and would pick a bag of grapefruit.  Our tree had so many grapefruit I was giving them away to everyone!  Too much acid on the tummy....  Anyway, our first bag contained radishes, romaine, spinach, and arugula.

 Nap time

 Doing playdough

 My big helper: pushing the shopping cart around Kroger

 And, cleaning up after their playdough mess

 Yummy dinner with the fresh veggies: mixed salad and roasted radishes

And, Lexi started school!  Well, kind of....  I put her in a "Kinder Ready" class that met once a week for 3 hrs.  She absolutely loved it!  And, I got 2.5 hrs to catch up on work and get a run in.  Yay!

Each week was a different theme based off of the book they were reading.  They had story time, arts and crafts, "PE" which was different games, science experiements, etc.  And at the end they ate lunch.

 A note from Devan to Lexi.  I found this in his room while cleaning.  It says: Dear Lexi.  I know you want to be done golfing but you will want to eat at the golfing place.  Love Devan.  LOL LOL LOL.

 Some school work

Devan's first chapter book he read all by himself.  He had gotten so good that for his reading homework he had to pick a chapter book.  This counted as 10 regular books.  And when he was done, he got to pick out a prize.  (After 10 books read 3 times each, they got to pick a prize from the prize box).

 Just being silly

 Week 2 of the veggies: romaine, summer squash, turnips, radishes, peppers

 Spelling tests

 Devan's letter to Santa

 Lexi's gingerbread man

 Medallions from Grampy

 This darn squirrel eats all my bird seed

 Skeeter let Lexi put hair clips in his hair

 So excited that Devan's home from school

 Making masks

 Eating lunch outside on a warm winter day.  The sun felt soooo good...

 Devan brought home his poster for student of the month (which is now hanging in his room)

 Another spirit stick!

 Lexi's schoolwork:

 All tuckered out

 More of Lexi's school work.  She is so proud!

 Lunch with Devan at school

 Filthy girl, playing in the rain (or rather, playing in the mud...)

 Trying to play Go Fish and she was getting so upset when she lost.  I tried so hard not to laugh.... :)

 More veggies: bok choy, arugula, tomato, turnip, swiss chard, romaine

 Riding her scooter while we walk Taylor

 Lexi's school work:

 She's so proud to show Devan :)

 Good job Devan!

 Look, it's Lexi!