Oh Piano

We gained a piano in our home last weekend.

Which made my girlies very happy :)

From my parents house to ours ...

We just had to get it moved ...

Which meant we needed a few good strong willing men :)

Little Man thinks he's pretty big now ....

And should be allowed to help out now that his muscles are large ...

but he is still asked to get out of the way with big heavy items ...

By.

His.

Mama.

So instead he settled for being the foreman ....

We needed a lot of strong men to help move this baby!

So we begged asked for reinforcements ... and forced asked my Uncle for some help ...

Then we begged asked my Grampie to come lend a hand too ...

because apparently these pianos are heavy or something ....

It's here now :)

My Monkey at the Playground

Little Man is one of those boys :) You know - the ones with no fear ! The ones, who climb higher, jump higher just to see if it can be done! He's giving me grey hair and he's only 3 :) 

This is the high slide at the playground ... he hollered at me " Don't worry Mom, I won't fall on my head " ..

Ok, but I'm not taking my eyes off of you !!!

:)

Got Static ?

Coop's not one to sit in front of the tv - that's a last resort for him ! He would live outside ! 

In the rubber boots of course :)

I grew up with all sisters, then had two daughters before our son was born !

I always heard the expression " boys will be boys "

I never really understood what that meant - Until Now :)

This is how my Dad found Cooper one day at their house! He had scaled up the wall and was hanging from the clothes rod in one of their closets. 

Hair Dye and I are about to become very good friends :)

Blanket Making

One of the many things I love about homeschooling, is the freedom! Freedom to do something out of the ordinary in the middle of the day even! When the girls were in private school, they were gone from 8-3 and then had an hour of homework after school! It didn't leave a lot of time todo much before supper and then an early bedtime! That's what's great about having them home, flexibility!!! So yesterday afternoon we decided to dig out the fleece and make tie blankets for the American Girl dolls .......

So they got busy ....

pinning .....

more pinning .....

lots of cutting ......

working hard .......

during this time Little Man was super relaxed doing his "schoolwork"

but not being one to miss out on anything ... found his way to the action :)

Thankfully he has very patient older sisters, who even offer to let him help .....

tie.. tie.. tie....

these blankets are really easy to put together. They were made in under an hour :)

Emily & Kanani all wrapped up :)

They really got into the whole " posing " thing ......

Great job girlies :)