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4.30.2008
pick pics...help!
We need help choosing graduation pictures for Pooh. Sorry about 3 of them being turned! But, which one do you like the best? sorry, no formal poll, just leave a message! Thanks!
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4.29.2008
RATTLESNAKE
in our backyard...no kidding....
I don't know if you can tell, but this guys is pretty big. And now, I am not so keen on sending Roo out to play by himself. Though he tells me, he thinks the snake is pretty cool.
cousins
The cousins, A. and J., came to visit while their mom was at a wedding out of state. A. stayed overnight and the next night J. also slept over. Apparently, he was pretty excited to be a homeschooler for the day and he energized Roo and A. to do school too. However, we normally do not start school in the 7 o'clock hour before breakfast.
While they were here, we laid 3 pallets of sod. Mostly me, Tigger, and Piglet, while Pooh made us lunch and lemonade. These 3 guys were very excited at the beginning, but then it digressed into them making forts and moving rock. Though, we do need them to move lots of rock! Pooh took them to the pool to cool off. This picture is after the pool and bath, but obviously I am just taking a quick break from the gardening. Whew! It was a lot of work, but the backyard looks good now!
Roo sure loves his cousins. Well, we all do, but it is especially wonderful for him to have kids his own age ready to play in ways that he wants. You know, hours of endless make-believe and silliness in a way that is impossible for those of us who are all growed up. I am so grateful that he gets to share his childhood with all his cousins!
-kanga
4.20.2008
eins, zwei, drei...Dortmund!!!
I can't believe I am coaching soccer again! Roo is playing his second season and now we are the Dortmund team. So, every moment is a teaching moment and so the kids must chant things in German before each game...teehee...our best good luck charm is screaming, at the top of their 5 year old lungs "eins, zwei, drei...DORTMUND!" Hey, if I knew the real cheer, I would teach it!
Here is the team warming up for the game. 
Go, Roo, Go!
visit to Wichita Falls
19 March 2008
On the way back from Nationals, we stopped by Wichita Falls where my brother E and his girls live. It has been a while and was SOOO good to see him adn catch up a bit. Plus, it was my first visit to a "Cracker Barrel". I must admit, my imagination had me beleiving that all they served was cheese, of the liquid and fake type. I was pleasantly surprised by the food and the atmosphere, but most of all the company. My brother and his girls and his mother in law are all delightful. Can't wait to see them again!
piglet's golden b-day
(I am going to do a quick history of our past few months...starting here!)
Piglet had her 14th birthday...on February 14! This is her GOLDEN birthday! She was born and was the chubbiest, round-faced, curly-haired darling. With a relaxed personality and a fun attitude we are so blessed to have her as part of our family.
Piglet had her 14th birthday...on February 14! This is her GOLDEN birthday! She was born and was the chubbiest, round-faced, curly-haired darling. With a relaxed personality and a fun attitude we are so blessed to have her as part of our family.
4.03.2008
NYC is the university!
This quote was forwarded to me today. I thought it was great!
"I’d encourage your youngest one to abandon kindergarten altogether. Almost everything I learned was learned outside the classroom, and school itself interrupted my education. Moreover, school locks you in with your peers. That is a mistake. One’s social circle should never include one’s equals. From my earliest years I found children uninteresting and always preferred the company of adults. This was an advantage, because I got to know lots of folks who are dead now whom I never would have known if I had waited until I was an adult. - So I have a collective memory - and oral tradition - that goes back to the eighteenth century, having spoken with people who knew people who knew people who knew people who lived then. - The only real university is the universe and a city its microcosm. That is why an expression like “New York University” is foolish. New York City is the university….Instead of school, children should spend some hours each day in hotel lobbies talking to the guests. They should spend time in restaurant kitchens and shops and garages of all kinds, learning from people who actually make the world work….One day spent roaming through a real classical church building would be the equivalent of one academic term in any of our schools, and a little time spent inconspicuously in a police station would be more informative than all the hours wasted on bogus social sciences. Formal lessons would only be required for accuracy in spelling and proficiency in public speaking, for which the public speakers in our culture are not models, and in exchange for performing some menial services a child could learn the violin, harp, and piano from musicians in one of the better cocktail lounges, or from performers in the public subways….So I urge you to keep your child out of kindergarten, because kindergarten will only lead to first grade and then the grim sequence of grade after grade begins and takes its inexorable toll on the mind born fertile but gradually numbed by the pedants who impose on the captive child the flotsam of their own infecundity."
- Fr. George Rutler
Originally posted by Peter Robinson via The Corner at National Review Online.
"I’d encourage your youngest one to abandon kindergarten altogether. Almost everything I learned was learned outside the classroom, and school itself interrupted my education. Moreover, school locks you in with your peers. That is a mistake. One’s social circle should never include one’s equals. From my earliest years I found children uninteresting and always preferred the company of adults. This was an advantage, because I got to know lots of folks who are dead now whom I never would have known if I had waited until I was an adult. - So I have a collective memory - and oral tradition - that goes back to the eighteenth century, having spoken with people who knew people who knew people who knew people who lived then. - The only real university is the universe and a city its microcosm. That is why an expression like “New York University” is foolish. New York City is the university….Instead of school, children should spend some hours each day in hotel lobbies talking to the guests. They should spend time in restaurant kitchens and shops and garages of all kinds, learning from people who actually make the world work….One day spent roaming through a real classical church building would be the equivalent of one academic term in any of our schools, and a little time spent inconspicuously in a police station would be more informative than all the hours wasted on bogus social sciences. Formal lessons would only be required for accuracy in spelling and proficiency in public speaking, for which the public speakers in our culture are not models, and in exchange for performing some menial services a child could learn the violin, harp, and piano from musicians in one of the better cocktail lounges, or from performers in the public subways….So I urge you to keep your child out of kindergarten, because kindergarten will only lead to first grade and then the grim sequence of grade after grade begins and takes its inexorable toll on the mind born fertile but gradually numbed by the pedants who impose on the captive child the flotsam of their own infecundity."
- Fr. George Rutler
Originally posted by Peter Robinson via The Corner at National Review Online.
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