Christmas cookies and crafts!

Daughter’s favorite part of baking Christmas cookies is unwrapping the chocolates 😜

She said that’s her (she was an angel in the nativity play)

Making paper plate Santa’s 

Both kids love getting some daddy time in during his vacation from work   He helped us build the wall Santa 🎅 

We made wreaths

Our curriculum called for us to make Christmas Wreaths today. 

But then we found out that Son could reach the top of the table...,

He sure looks proud of himself!

Noodles change into pretzels

A few nights ago hubby put some pretzels onto Daughter’s plate after we had left the dinner table. When she came back into the kitchen she said “my noodles changed into pretzels!”

When I went to tuck her in she had to tell me all about it. I laughed hysterically!

The next day she was eating leftovers (my favorite food to make!) and she excused herself to go to the bathroom but said “watch and make sure my noodles don’t turn into pretzels”

😜😂

Reasons I love homeschooling

• Learning at our own pace
• learning about God
• hearing Daughter singing memory verses
• studying scripture
• pajamas!  (or swimsuits)
• one on one time with Daughter
• It's really fun!  Way more fun than I thought it would be!
• watching her learn
• flexibility
• more family time
• no homework!
• Daughter loves it.  She asks to "do school" sometimes
• Field trips!
• our homeschool group 
• I can foster her imagination



Tupperware Red Sea and M&M Isrealites

9 months!

Son is 9 months!

• ·         He has 8 teeth and is cutting molars.
• ·         Is off the charts at 27 pounds!
• ·         Is 2 feet 5 inches tall. 
•            Just started sleeping through the night!  Woot Woot!
• ·         He loves food!  Pretty much anything we eat.
• ·         Is walking around with a walker (the push behind kind)
• ·         Just discovered the toilet paper dispenser and loves unrolling and eating it.  (we do stop him 😉)
• ·         He loves to turn on the bath faucets whenever he can.
• ·         We’ve started keeping our bathroom doors closed.  Hehehe
• ·         He’s very drooly!  He soaks through an average of 4 bibs a day.
• ·         Very smiley!
• ·         Loves playing with big sister.
• ·         Loves playing with big sister’s toys!

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Rooster culling

*****WARNING!!!!  Chicken butchering pics*******

Yesterday the large cockerel (aka Mr Weasley) was staring at Daughter as she was running outside. She came within a few feet of him and I was getting nervous. 

Last night when I went to get the chickens in the coop the cockerels would not get in. I took it as a sign. 

Daughter crashed before Mat got home. I took it as another sign. 

So we had dinner, put Son to bed, and went out to cull some roosters. 

The sun had already set when we started. But here are some pics....

My stud with the first rooster (Mr Weasley)

We opted to breast them out since it was our first time and we were doing it in the dark. Mat did the work and I assisted. 

Cutting out the breast

Cutting out a leg

A pic of the crop on the smaller rooster

It was really a learning experience for us!  And we had fun!  It was almost like a date night- no kids and under the stars!

Eggs!

Size comparison. Friday's batch on the left, store bought in the middle, Tuesday's hatch on the right. 

We were out of town this weekend and came home to this. We had moved the golf ball out of the nesting box, but they moved it back!

This morning when I let them out one of them was already brooding!  So she's apparently the one that wanted all the eggs and the golf ball in the nesting box. And yes, she was brooding on an egg and a golf ball 😂