Art

Haylee took her first art lesson today.  She went for two hours and did very well.  The teacher said she sat very still and paid attention very well.  I could hardly speak when I went to pick her up and saw the painting because I was so pleased with her work.  Haylee has always loved any type of art and is very excited to have the opportunity to take watercolor classes.

I am so proud of her and love seeing how proud she is of her work.

He did it!!

I am proud to say my son is an Eagle Scout!!

 

Tucker passed the Eagle Board of Review tonight and is now an Eagle Scout!!

 

We had a great time tonight driving the hour to the meeting and the hour home.  He is such a fine young adult.

 

I am so blessed to have him as my son!

Family Picture

We had family pictures made Friday evening.  The photographer pasted this on Face*book.  I am excited and would like to see the rest now.

School

I guess I shouldn't have complemented the girls on how well they are doing in school this year.  It is now taking them forever to finish their school.  I assigned them less this week to see if we could get finished in a timely manner. 

I think they lost their math brains at our swim meet this weekend.  We had a simple review lesson on parallel, perpendicular and oblique lines this morning.  I drew each of them a line.  I asked them to draw a parallel line and a perpendicular line to the line I drew.  One didn't know what a perpendicular line was at all.  We had talked about it and looked at multiple examples before asking them to do this.  I then asked them to draw a set of each type on their own.  You would have thought I had asked for the moon. 

Oh my!!  I hope our day gets better and some people turn their brains on!!

Proud

I haven't posted in a while, so I will give you an update.   School has started well this year.  I am very proud that everyone retained math skills over the summer.  They were required to read this summer, but not do structured math.

I am very proud of how well all of my children are doing academically right now.  However, Tucker doesn't get bragged on very much.  So, I am going to tell you about what he has been doing.

Tucker is taking very challenging courses this year.  Anatomy and Physiology, Advanced Math, Writing Composition and Omnibus which includes logic, literature and history.  I am so glad I am not taking these classes because I don't know that I could pass them.  He is working hard and doing well.

Tucker has completed all of the merit badges and the service project to earn the honor of E*agle Sc*out. We are very proud of him. His service project was repainting the helipad at our local hospital. He has passed the local board so now he will meet with the district board for approval.  

I have included pictures of the project below.  The transformation is so neat for me to see.  He and other scouts worked very hard in the July heat completing the project.

 

 

The day they finished the project, the hospital representative arranged for one of the life flight helicopters to land on the newly painted helipad.  It was an exciting end to a job well done.  They also took a picture from the sky as they left and sent it to us.

 

Well, this post was going to be about everyone, but I spent it all on Tucker.  I will update on everyone else later.

Question

Do any of you give your child Mela*tonin to help them sleep?  I know some people do because I have read it on their blogs.  Haylee has a hard time going to sleep at night.  Last year we gave her prescription medicine to help her fall asleep.  We were trying to avoid that this school year.  Well, she is taking hours to fall asleep.  The other night she had been in the bed at least 1 1/2 hours when she got up complaining about not sleeping. 

I am not sure what dosage to give her.  Does it cause problems in AD*HD children?  A few of the articles I read online said to be careful giving to children dealing with AD*HD. 

Thanks for the help!

School

We started school last week.  Things are going well so far.  I am very excited that all of my girls have been able to complete the review work at the beginning of the math book.  I was very happy because other than life skills, we didn't do any math this summer. 

The boys have done well.  They have two classes that haven't started yet.  They will begin next week.  (They are group classes.)

Morgan is going to stay at my parent's house for a week.  We are going to their lake house this weekend and she is going to stay until the next weekend.  My mother had surgery on her hand and is off work for a few weeks so she is thrilled to have her.  They are having a garage sale the second weekend and Morgan can't wait to help.  She has wanted to participate in a garage sale for years.
I will send her school work with her and the answer keys for my parents.  I will miss her, but on the other hand, I am excited for her. 

I believe it will be a good thing for everyone.  The other girls struggle at first without Morgan around, but then they start doing better.  They are lost at first.  Actually, Haylee does pretty well.  Hannah struggles. 

Also, this was our excitement today.  Tucker killed a timber rattler in my front yard.  Luckily a friend drove by and saw it and stopped to let us know.  He went in some brush by a tree.  We sprinkled gasoline on the brush.  Very quickly, he stuck his head out and Tucker blew it up!!  He actually blew up his head and injured part of his body.