The Beach in the Fall!

It is way hard to believe but today it was 90 degrees out. I quickly packed the kids up, the beach toys, a picnic and headed to the beach. It is not all that hard to take 3 kids to the beach for 6 hours. They are kept so busy it is amazing. This was one of the best days of the "summer". We had so much fun. Of course, it is off season so we went to the uber expensive beach for free and of course, the facilities were closed. At one point I had to dig a hole in the sand for Alex. Yuck! 

Apple Picking

Uncle Don and soon to be Aunt Brigid came for a visit on their way to New York. Brigid was very excited to do some apple picking now that she is living in the northeast. We took them to our favorite place Parlee Farms. 

The Hay Maze was up so the boys spent lots of time running around on it. 

We got to feed to goats. A trip to the farm would not be the same without it. 

Finally we made it out to the fields. We picked over 30 lbs of apples. It is a good thing I gave half of them to Don and Brigid or we would really be up to our eyeballs in apple sauce and apple bread. 

Jacob loved the apples. He chewed through about 3 before we realized he could reach the bag. 

Thanks for visit Don and Brigid. We had fun.

The Very Hungry Catepillar

In August two of my good friends had beautiful baby boys. I was so happy to make them a Very Hungry Caterpillar quilt. They were both very much the same with just a tad bit of differences in the placement of the fruit, and other edibles.

Baby Brayden got the smaller one that has red borders.

This was the only picture of Baby Caleb's that came out. The quilt was much bigger and bordered in blue.

I love them both tons. They were very different then my normal quilt considering I appliqued most of it.

First Day of Preschool

Jonathan had his first day of preschool today. He looks very happy in the morning, was all excited and ready to go. 

When we got there Alex gave him a big hug. It was so touching.

And then Jonathan started screaming and it took him nearly an hour to calm down. A fire engine came to the school for their fire drill and that helped a little but he was back to screaming shortly after it left. He went to school all last year so I am not sure what is going on. It probably doesn't help that Alex gets to stay home. 

First Day of Homeschool

We started Alex's first official day of Homeschooling. Although he has been doing quite a bit already, this year is the first year where we have to submit our curriculum to the superintendent and gain approval. 

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Alex worked hard all day. We did some spelling, and learned some cursive. 

He started doing some silent reading time. We got this big blue chair for him last year and now he uses it every single day. 

He loves it.

Jacob helped out some. 

Our first project was a time line of Alex's life. He decided to use birthday party pictures. It really turned out cute. 

The next project was an archaeological dig. I basically buried some toys and utensils and the boys dug them up.

Jonathan got to help out on this one.

I think we would have done more except that I was being eaten alive by mosquitoes. For some reason they love me way too much. None of the boys got bitten but I had about a dozen after this adventure.

Summer Pics From My Phone!

While stuck in the house due to a nice size hurricane I decided to download the pictures from my camera and post some of the good ones. I am very please with the quality of this camera phone. It is good for those all the sudden cute moments when I didn't luge my big camera out.

The boys took 6 weeks of tennis lessons this summer. It was 4 days a week for an hour. I think we skipped one day due to 105 degree heat and missed one for rain but other then that they were out there all the time. They loved it, especially Alex. Jonathan got tired halfway through a lot of the classes but to be honest it was meant for older kids. I think Alex would have done even better in a more advanced class. But he firmed up the basic skills.

Our one and old major beach day.

When Adam was in Spain I took the boys into Boston to visit with our bestest friends Kevin and Kayla. I took only 3 pics the whole time. Here they are.

That is right, I took all 3 boys on the train all by myself. They were great.

Uncle Don visited twice.

Pool day!

We had several play dates with our friends the Carrieres. They have a great big backyard that is in the shade all afternoon. One time Ms Debbie got the pool stuff out. They loved it.

Jacob had his first Popsicle.

Jacob loves to draw on the white board.

For all the Patriot fans out there.

The boys dressed up the a trip to the book store. I think Jonathan is a ninja and Alex is a samurai.

Playdate at the Turner's.

Park Day!

As you can see Jacob has not fallen into the no pictures for the 3rd child syndrome. Enjoy the last few days of summer.