Hiking

Car full of kids.  :)   

We're having fun.  I don't know why most of them are frowning.  

Jubilee  on the hike. 

This pretty little trail runs along a little creek.    The  fool's gold or granite or whatever it is in the rocks is  in the creek too so the water looks gold.  The soil is sparkly too.  It's like someone sprinkled glitter all over EVERYTHING.  But you can't tell from the pictures.   

Buddy system
Poor little Isaiah has allergies to everything.  He has red, baggy eyes.  :( 

One of the sisters is not very good at the buddy system when paired with one of the slower brothers...she tends to drag him along over rocks and stuff.  Ooops! 

Trying to get a shot of the shiny stuff and the pretty creek.   

Jubilee was looking at Elephants with me.   

Working a puzzle with his sister.

Noah made Jubi's doll a "bunkbed" with his favorite blanket and one of hers.

I like this one a lot.

And this one.  The two I marked might be my very favorites of her in this "series."

Noah was upset because he wanted to hold Jubilee.  Isaiah was lost in his own little world and not looking. 

I tried to match everyone's clothes.  This was a lot easier when there were 3 or less of them.  So this is 3 shades of yellow and 2 shades of light greenish yellow.  

For the child who doesn't like to lay down...

We bought Jubilee a baby gym because she doesn't like to lay down.
She LOVES it!

 

I don't have any pictures of the boys this time.  :(  I was actually taking pictures of Jubilee playing in her gym and the girls got a few pictures too because they were around.  

 

She's been rolling over and playing a lot since she got this toy.  She gets really excited about it when she sees it.

And it has so many things to look at and do.

Not to mention the shiny lights at the top.  And the music.   

And of course, everything is better when a sibling or two will play with you.

Music

We painted in homeschool one day.  The girls did really good about only painting the project.  Isaiah did mostly good...

The project:  Ancient Egyptian Cuff Bracelets.  (The boys had to be taped closed after painting because they had the smaller cardboard tubes that didn't fit over their hands.)

Liz got our letters!  :)

Noa mostly painted himself.  And the floor.  And his hair.  And everything else.

Brandon had to be gone for a work-week.  While he was gone, Jubilee and I looked at some pictures of him.  She was really cooing and talking to his pictures.  

Noah joined us. 

Isaiah joined us.   At about this point Jubilee got her hand on the mouse and was pushing the next button on the mouse so it was going to the next picture and the next and the next... Endless Daddy pictures=awesomeness!

Next picture...

She also accidentally turned the computer away from them.

Noah is being crazy like Brandon in that picture. 

Icicles.  I just thought they were pretty 

I made the kids and I pudding for supper one night just for something different and special. 

They are all smiling and looking!

Brandon came back with a guitar and gave us guitar lessons.  ;)

I thought this was cute with their heads behind it like this:

Brandon also brought us chocolate donuts.  Can you tell?

Emma's expressive!
Abby's also cute here!

I like his smile.

school--both girls love first grade math!  I do too!

school 

Emma and Emma playing a Trumpet. she's so silly! There are three Emma's! ;) (One is on the back.) --By Emma
(Her cousin Brighton is first chair trumpet!  We're so proud of him!)  

Abby playing a cello. Darth Vader playing an accordion. Planets and practice cello in the background. --By Abby

I was watching this one day.  Abby came bounding up from the playroom and said, "What is that beautiful music? I love that!"  So she watched it with me.  We then watched a handful of other things by these same guys (see the other movies on the side bar?)  and we watched some other concert hall type music from other people.  Abby fell in love with the cello.  Currently, that's her dream.  She wants to play a cello.  She plays the air cello in church and thinks it's sad that our church doesn't have a cello on stage.  (by the way, most of the time, we have a piano and maybe special music with a guest player on some instrument.)  But she kept looking at the cello player and saying, "I like that!  I want to play the cello!  He looks like he's having fun on his cello like Papa!"  (Ironically, I think his name is Steve.)    But anyway, because she attached herself to that instrument, Isaiah and Emma attached to instruments too.  Emma wants to be a trumpet player and Isaiah wants to be a pianist.  (He's actually wanted to do this for a while, but it came back with a passion when Abby came at hers with a passion.)