Last name

I love doing "homeschool" Tuesdays with Theo after Jack goes off to school. I keep our schedule really light on the days that Theo is home with me so we can just do as we please :) Today we did more writing from the uppercase workbook and really worked on our last name. Theo is getting there!! The "k" is the trickiest part but he'll get it in no time, I just know it.

He is also a stamping and drawing machine. His teacher says that he spends most of his free choice time in the writing/art center. I'm not the least bit surprised.

I moved Theo on to the computer after writing practice. We've been easing him in to Jumpstart Kindergarten! and now we've gotten him hooked. He can still play music, color things and have fun but there is definitely more of a learning component than Disney.com. That's his hands-down favorite. I can't wait to take this boy to Disney one day....... he loves the Mouse.

Camping

Here's a picture of Jack riding a horse up in McNair, Mississippi this weekend. Dave met up with his cousin, Jerry, and two friends. The men handled all of the child duty for the weekend and had a great time! Dave even threw the nasty camping clothes in the wash and bathed the kids by the time I got home today :) Go Dad!!

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Dave took the boys camping this weekend so I drove over for French Quarter Fest and stayed with cousin Cameron! We met up with some of her friends on Saturday and then lots of other cousins later in the day! I just love Dave's extended family :)

Today Cameron and I volunteered at the fest working a beer tent with two of my friends. We got t-shirts, food and drink tickets and lots of thanks for pouring beer in the shade! We had a primo location and were right next to the stage in Jackson Square. It's disheartening how hot it already is here in April :( Summer is going to be HOT this year! Thank you Betsy, Cameron and Deb for being a beer wench with me!

New friends

Jazz in the Vines started up last weekend here. It's an outdoor concert held on the grounds of a vineyard. Everyone has a picnic and the kids roam around in a field behind the picnickers. We invited a family from Theo's preschool class who just recently moved here from Scotland. Adults and kids alike had a great time!

Thursday

Theo and I started a yoga class on Thursdays and decided to head to the park afterwards with some friends from the class. Gotta enjoy Spring while we can, huh? Theo was having such a great time in at the park that we stayed for close to 3 hours. The boys both needed haircuts after we picked up Jack. Now we can see Theo's eyebrows again! Jack started baseball practice Thursday night. I left my phone at home that night but I promise to snap pictures next week!!!

Something fishy

Jack's school has been taking the Stanford Achievement Test all week long so we've enjoyed a week of NO HOMEWORK! I'm so in the routine of homework that it's been a refreshing change :) We drove over to Hammond and enjoyed the Discovery Center there after school one day. Gigi drove over and had dinner with us. The kids picked sushi so Gigi bravely tried a crunchy roll. Here they are decorating a fish at the Discovery Center. They both had a great time!

Learning to write

I got this cool dry erase board at Michael's a while ago and busted it out today for Theo. We started first with a workbook for lower case letters and then moved on to the dry erase board. I rewarded him with Skittles (rewards are very important for a motivated student) and he was happy to go to town! The gripper is really helping him grasp his pen and pencil correctly for writing. I'm so proud of Theo!