We were so excited to hear that a sweet lady in our neighborhood who also homeschools decided to start up a Homeschooling Science Club! We were all in!! If there's anything I love beyond my amazing husband, it's my kiddos, learning and science!!
They did vinegar and baking soda balloons and it was a big hit! Even though we didn't have all the supplies yet, we had a blast learning about physical and chemical changes with balloons together while Liz and I switched off swapping watching our cute little girlies at a playground nearby. Katelyn and Nathan sure love engaged learning with their cousins and playing with the massive amount of nerf guns and shooters in their garage afterwards!! We played Blind Man's Bluff too with a bunch of kids and they thought it was a super fun game!
That night, Nathan (4 years) and Andrew (5 years)'s soccer team had their team end of the year party at the nearby park and we celebrated with a Mothers vs. Sons Soccer Game, special soccer sugar cookie treats, and water! They were so cute and the boys were so proud and excited to see their own numbers on them! This was their 2nd season playing together as the DINOSAURS!!! GO RED DINOSAURS!!
The game part was a blast too! It helped that the boys' goal was about 10 feet wide and the moms goal was about 5 feet wide! haha....But we still outscored them, I had a few nice dribble runs down the field that ended in assists to goals, one was to Liz who kicked it in!! wooo hooo!! The boys had a couple new additions to the team this year including Jose, and Bon, who must have played before because they sure knew what they were doing and would drive to the goal everytime! Nathan sure learned a lot from them and you could tell he looked up to them. One time as we were headed to a game one Saturday this season, he pointed out Jose to me and said, "Mom, THAT's Jose, he's really good at scoring all goals...." haha...."He scored like 4 or 10 of them...." Hehe...So cute. He is learning so much, compared to when he first started and was just getting the hang of thing by huddling around the ball wherever it went....and now he is actually starting to chase after the ball and power glide towards the net! We are so amazed at how well the boys did this year and especially because Nathan got to the point where he was scoring at least one goal each game...sometimes even two or three!! Woo hoo!!
He sure loved playing with his cousin Andrew too, sometimes during practice, he would just be out there on the field swinging hands with Andrew or making silly jokes or faces and giggling at each other....not that that was conducive to super productive practices....lol...but it was still cute all the same! We sure love our Nathan Speedster Man! :)
Nathan, Jose, Jude, Max (?), Andrew, Bon and Chance!
We had plans to keep our old California ward family/friend tradition alive and go camping with some old CA friends, who have since moved closer to Texas over Memorial Day Weekend that was fast approaching! So, to prepare for our 5 hour car trip....we decided to do prepare some of the best car snacks possible and make some super delicious healthy banana muffins together!! Love those faces!! Love my helpers in the kitchen! #lovetheseeverydaymoments #theyareseriouslythebesthelpersever!
And of course, after lots and lots of hard work....these cute kiddos are always game for some sand play time too!! I love that I can usually find at least two of them out here throughout the day occasionally playing with each other, hiding plastic bugs and finding them, or sifting the sand through the spinning wheels or building a dome castle together. The family that build together, stays together!! ;) =D
In addition to some cute everyday moments on the back patio, these pictures of little Joshua help give an idea of the little moments he has been up to lately in the high chair!!! Little J is now 7.5 months old...and he loves putting everything INTO his mouth...including the food jars themselves....let's just say he is NOT AS fond of eating the food as much having it spooned into his mouth by someone other than himself!! Haha!! Go figure!! This was probably the 2nd jar he finished in the last almost 2 months with me spooning it into his mouth. His first BABY FOOD he ate was CARROTS!!! (Just like when we almost named him Garret, and Nathan thought that name sounded kinda funny because it kinda sounded like Carrot....haha...he had said, "we could just call him baby carrot," hehe....Well, sure enough his first baby food he completely finished was carrots! yay!! The second was green beans and he was all smiles about it!! We sure love this sweet, calm, happy, smiley and enthusiastic loving little guy!
Joshua 7.5 months!
They say a picture can say a thousand words and my heart just melts with all the expressions and love inner happiness I get inside when I see these pics and remember these silly days and small moments toether...I feel like I might just have to include a thousand pictures to even remotely get a glimpse of the depth of excitement, meaning, pure love and joy I am feeling whenever I see or think of the craziness, all the ways we try to explore and learn together and messiness of our days, but also of the heart full of love and smiles that brighten the world and bind our hearts and make all of the challenges and hard and tiresome nights worth it. :)
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