The Month in Photos

Ryan has made such progress with swimming, not only
in skill but in overcoming his fears!




Daddy took the kids to a fire station tour with our
homeschool and playgroup kids. They got to walk through
the fire engine and ambulance as well as see the fire station.
The best part was that there was an alarm while they were
there so they got to watch the firemen in action!



Inside the ambulance with his friend Vincent from
across the street.




Enjoying our Valentine's Tea Party.




Ryan had been complaining that he had way too much
responsibility, so we let Abby and him be the parents
one Saturday. They lasted all of about 90 minutes
before wanting to be the kids again. Here is Ryan
trying to decide what to make all of us for breakfast.




Ryan loves doing crafts, and when I saw this cute little
wood model at Michael's for $1, I picked it up to give him
some rainy day. Well, it's been raining plenty around here,
so he got to do this project this month.




With the exception of helping with an obstinate axle and
the cloth cover, he pretty much did the whole thing himself.
It turned out really cute.




Fishing, but not catching, at Vernonia.




Reeling in a "salad fish," aka weeds from the
bottom of the lake.




Daddy is teaching Ryan to fly cast, and he's
finding harder than it looks!




In order to break up the monotony of memorizing math
facts, Ryan loves to do word problems (go figure!). I
found a good basic word problem book at the learning store
a few weeks ago, and he has almost finished it already.




We have been getting together once a week with some new friends from church. They homeschool as well and have a boy and girl just about Ryan's and Abby's age. Keston is about six months older than Ryan and doesn't let Ryan boss him around, which is just what we were looking for!




Making light sabers from modeling clay.