August dates

Abigail and Daddy breakfast date

Daddy and Abigail went out for breakfast together at Panera.  They brought along a game to play while they ate and had a great morning together!

Hadassah and Mommy coffee and game date

Hadassah insisted on wearing her ballet leotard because that would be "fancy." 
And she convinced me that she needed a pink cake pop to go with her "cold chocolate"!
 we brought Spot it and Memory to play together

Corban and Mommy 
date to the 
Plantation Mother & Son Hoedown

We ate snacks and dinner, 

did the chicken dance, 

played with balloons 

and Corban had fun at the boys activities!

hula-hoop

limbo

hat toss

We made the front page of our local paper!

We went to another delicious demonstration dinner with wine tasting at Publix Aprons.

With the Sarah and James, we went to Qquest 
(a room escape game where we had to find clues and solve riddles to work our way out!).  
None of us knew what to expect, but we solved the game in record time and 
had so much fun we are going back to do another room this week!

Fall Semester

This school year, Corban and Abigail will both be doing Classical Conversations Foundations program again.  CC is on Cycle 3 this year, with the United States of America as the focus for History and Geography.  To compliment what we will be doing with CC,  I have chosen 

MFW Adventures in U.S. History curriculum to do at home with both children!

I am really looking forward to the opportunities this will provide for learning and discovering and reading together.  There might be some areas that I will need to simplify for Abigail and I plan on Corban doing quite a bit of additional reading of American people, events and literature.  He has already started reading some of the Who was...? 
biography series and is making a book with summaries of the people he reads about.

Together we will read Mathematicians Are People, Too.

Corban will also begin:

American Adventures

First Language Lessons: Level 3

Horizon Math 3 (book 1)

A Reason for Handwriting T

Abigail will continue

her Bible reader and notebook from MFW 1st grade

First Language Lessons: Level 2

and will begin

Horizons Math K (book 2)

A Reason for Handwriting A







While other activities/classes will begin in September, 

(Classical Conversations- Corban and Abigail, 

IMACS- Corban, swim team- Corban, 
and ballet- Abigail and Hadassah) 

we begin our curriculums at home this week!

playgroup

We joined a playgroup that has really fun playdates!  They are geared more for Hadassah's age, so we usually just go to events at a park where Corban and Abigail can play on the playground (and participate some!) while Hadasssah has fun with her friends.

Superhero theme

The children made masks and we took Superhero pictures.

Wonder Woman!

spa theme 

(cucumber eyes, hand scrub, nail painting, and smoothie stations!)

This month, we have also had fun meeting friends at the park 
or inviting them over for swimming at our house!

superheroes

Batman

a "bad guy" crushing the city

Batgirl

Wonder Woman

Hadassah is constantly pretending to be Wonder Woman right now! 

I found the first season of WW at the library and she was so excited to watch.  She has made her own "lasso of truth", tells me when she is invisible (riding in her jet), and will correct being called Hadassah with either Diana or Wonder Woman!

Superman

Wonder Woman napping 
that afternoon!

Nine Months

Asher Isaac

9 months

22 lbs

30 3/4 in

healthy     *     growing     *     happy

lots of smiles and laughter

ticklish     *     funny

6 teeth     *     blonde hair
says "Mama"

stands by himself     *     crawls quickly

cruising (walking holding onto everything he can find- a hand, toy, chair)

blows raspberries and pats his mouth to make noises

growing appetite

curious     *     determined

likes to climb on, over and around things

likes to open cabinets and take out all he can find

has dropped 3 rolls of TP in toilet