Not My Genes

I have to work at not being intimidated by animals. Not Julia!
She caught it herself.

Not Quite

Jeremy had to go out on a service call over the weekend and the farmer's five year old son was out in the field with him. Amongst many other questions he asked Jeremy, "Is your name John Deere?"

What Philip has Been Up To Part 3

Happily playing a little football.
Taking notes from Julia on trouble he can make!PS I promise I'm not staging these!

Projects!

We're full swing into our project time this summer. Since we do a project every day I'll only post my favorites.
We made balloon "rockets" and blasted them across the kitchen.

We did cross stitching on cardboard. I prepoked the holes using a pattern I found here. The instructions were lacking though and this proved to be tedious and frustrating for all of us. I ended up doing about half of Thomas's and some of Sam's, but they turned out pretty cute. Next time, I'm just buying cross stitch material and letting them go at it where ever they please.

We also made classic hand print lillies, although not all of us chose classic lilly colors. Did you ever do this project at school? I know I did.

We also ran an obstacle course I made outside and did an experiment where we tried to make a marble come up from the bottom of a jar of salt. (The trick is you have to shake up and down, not back and forth.)

If anyone has fun project ideas I'm still looking for ideas for July and August.

Grandma C

My Grandma C moved out of her house into an apartment this week. We have gotten a lot of good stuff she doesn't need anymore! We got the two recliners from downstairs. Which are very comfy. I thought maybe this blue one would have a Grandpa shaped indentation in it but it doesn't! The other one is pink. They replace the broken brown ones that are older than Jeremy that we got from his parents .We got the patio table and chairs which is fun. Many a good meal has been eaten at this table and hopefully many more! They already survived their first storm out here in the windy country.

We now have two more wooden chairs at the kitchen table so we don't have to worry about spills getting ground into the upholstery on the folding chairs. And another wooden chair we are using at the desk instead of the ancient ugly orange rolling one.

Perhaps best of all is Grandpa's old wheelbarrow that is now Sam's. He hauled in everything we brought home using it and didn't complain once. He and Thomas also used it yesterday to pick up sticks blown down by the storm, and we didn't even ask them to!

We got lots of other littler things too. A canner that I'll have to learn to use, lots of old books, some games, lots of framed pictures, kitchen things, plus stuff I can't think of off the top of my head. My favorite thing is a tea cup that I haven't taken a picture of. Now I have one from Grandma Irene and Grandma C.

I haven't seen the new place yet but I heard it's nice and am looking forward to visiting!

Boys

What Philip's Been Up To

Using the dye cut machine and laminator.

Going a little cross eyed looking at the patterns.

It's a busy life.