Reading!

J and I have been muddling through our 1st week and a bit of homeschooling and we are slowly getting a system that works for all of us. Today was a GREAT DAY as J read his first word today! VERY COOL to see his confusion turn to PRIDE when he realized what he'd done! I thought it very fitting that his first word read was Mama!  Awww.. Makes all the 'work' worth it to share that moment with J!!

Creative L!

L 'wrote his name' with fence pieces the other day! I love watching them learn and create! I'm SO blessed to be able to stay at home with them and watch them grow up moment by moment!!

Primed Floor Picture.

Just realized I forgot to put up a picture of the whole floor primed. Here it is in the sunlight!

Cute Kitties!

Our newest critters :) Cute aren't they!! So far name choices are Pretty, Princess, Marmie (short for marmalade) and Sweetie! I think it will end up being Pretty and Sweetie! But we're still taking votes!

New Floor!

This is part of our house building project, and the only part we are doing this year. This addition will be our entrance and milk cleanup area with shelves for storage and the wood stove as well. We are really looking forward to getting it done. Here is a picture of the area we are working on right now. The 1st picture is the area all cleaned out and ready to put up the floor. The 2nd picture is the floor plywood mostly on! Papa let me use his air drill and I actually screwed over half of the floor down!! Which is great as drills and I DO not get along normally. With the big floor Papa dubbed me a 'lost cause with drills' but I'm apparently getting better!!!

  

The above picture is the boys and Papa filling in the cracks on the floor. They had a great time. Below is L putting primer on the floor! And the bottom one is J priming the floor!! They loved to help paint! Papa did most of it and it looks WONDERFUL. It is the 1st paint on our new house! As many of you know we are building a straw bale house and the bales for this addition are reserved and we will be picking them up soon! 200 bales, we won't use quite that many but we want to have some extras. We are buying the bales from a farmer near us which is wonderful as we thought we'd have to get them sent to us from Alberta. This farmer has already sold building bales for another house put up in a near by town!! SWEET!!

The next big step will be to paint this part and move everything from our POC ( piece of crap) addition on to this area and dismantling the POC addition so we can finish the floor! But first we need steps and possibly some plumbing done.  Coming along though!