Their idea of clean

I was tired of Kathryn's room so I sent her in there to clean it up. My directives were "I wnat nothing on the floor. I want to be able to vacum in here" I told her what ever I found on the floor when I went to inspect it was going to go in time out for awhile. I gave her about an hour and then said I was coming in after I do the dishes. that gave her a time table. While I was doing dishes her daddy went in to help her. As you can tell by the pics nothing is on the floor. It is also not put away but it is not on the floor.
Got to love those daddys and kids working together.

Yes that is a baby high chair hidden under all that junk. I did go in the next day with her and we put things away where they belonged and now she has nightly inspections where mommy checks her room so it does not get this way again.

Downtown Getdown

Football season has begun and each home game they have a sort of pep rally in downtown Tallahassee. This was the first one and Robert and I took the girls.

You could almost divide the event into two areas. The first one was for those consuming alcohol, the other was family friendly where alcohol was not allowed. They had balloon animals, face painting, games and other events for the children. This weeks theme was Beach Party so they had an area with a big pile of sand and had buckets and shovels out there for the children to build castles in it.
Sam was easy to track where ever she went in the crowd.

What event would be complete without a funnel cake. Yum Yum!!

Tripical Storm Fay

We survived another tropical storm with just some limbs down in the yard. After the storm had passed and we were just getting some rain I let the girls go out and play. They had been cooped up in the house for 2 days and were getting cabin fever. They slpashed int he puddles and made mud pies. I was safely on the porch with the paper and the camera.

Beginning First Grade

On August 18 we began our 2nd year of homeschooling. we are still with Florida Virual Academy and loving every minute of it. I have been working the last 3 weeks so we have been doing school in the afternooons. We started off with daddy doing some school in the morning but daddy soon realized he did not have the patience for it. So I took over again.


This last week Tom and I have been doing Security for albertsons. They have to have a presence in the store to make sure no one breaks in before they hand the keys over. Kathryn has been going with us and doing school. It has been fun because we are the only ones in the store most of the time. This project was a vest. We were reviewing plant parts.

Kathryn's favorite part was recess where she was able to ride her scooter and bike around the store. She and daddy played a game of hide and seek. She was on her bike and she would ride the isles looking for him.Tomorrow is our last day at Albertsons and honestly I can not wait to be able to focus totally on homeschooling again.

Grace's birthday

Kathryn's friend Grace Spear had her birthday party at Chick-fil-A. Kathryn and Samantha were both in attendance.

The children started off by playing on the climber .
Kathryn, who hates to get her face painted, actually got a butterfly on one cheek ...
... and a cat on the other.
Ms Eva evenhad her face done. My talents were enlisted to make balloon sculptures. I really enjoyed making these for the children. Even those who were not part of the party asked for an animal. The manager got my number so I could do this for some of their events.

This was my first flower.
Kathryn gave Grace Geofrey and some Tinkerbell school suplies. Awhile back Kathryn promised Grace that she would get it for her birthday. Sam gave Grace a scrapbooking kit. The party was a lot of fun for everyone.

Last weekend the IMAX Theatre had a Pamdamonia Day. It was celebrating the upcoming Olympics and the release of the new Kung Fu Panda movie. It was free so it fit right into my budget. Kathryn and Samantha are enjoying a round of jousting. Sam of course knocked Kathryn off everytime. But they were both good sports about it and had a blast.

The girls also had their names written in Chineese. (I did mine too) It looks pretty cool.
When I saw this on their web site is was called The Egg Roll race. I thought they were coing something with eggrolls. Much to my surprise and amusement they had to roll the egg down the course....
...with their noses. Kathryn won this every time. I think it is because she is close to the ground and had better control of her egg.

In this game Sam and Grace excelled. They were to use chopsticks to move as many pieces of popcorn from one container to another. It is not a easy as it sounds. Espically if you do not know how to use the sticks to begin with.

We had a few minutes to kill before the movie began so I took them over to the Mary Brogan Museum. The wind tunnel is one of their favorite activities. The winds get up to 75 MPH which is Cat 1 force winds.

Grace has wonderful arm strength. The object is to lift your own body weight. She did this so effortlessly.

Grace and Sam both did well with the base ball toss. If memory serves they both tossed balls in excess of 20 MPH.
We finally made it to the movie and it was so funny and had some good teaching points. I recommend it to see when you get the opportunity.

Glamour shots

The girls and I were looking around the living room at Kathryn's pictures that I have had professionally done since she was a baby, they noticed there were none from last year and none from this year. Well I did them last year but did not like how they came out so I have not put up one. This year I decided to try something different. I had the girls get all dressed up and we went in the front yard and had our own photo shoot.
Every year I have had something in the picture that is special to her that year. When she was three it was land before time and at 4 it was 101 Dalmations. This year it is Sally. A few weeks ago she lost Sally. Sally is the little dog she got her from build a bear when she was two and Sally has had all kinds of adventures with Kathryn. We looked and looked and could not find the dog. I thought it was discontinued but I went on BAB and lo and behold I found another one. I ordered it and had it sent with a note to Kathryn that this is Sally too and she is going to keep Kathryn company until the other cane be found. Kathryn's face just lit up.

This is Sam posing with her bunny.


This is Grace. She and Sam have the same bunny.

Kathryn, Grace, and Sam were able to spend a lot of time together over this week while Grace's parents were packing up their house in Bristol to move into Tall. Yea for us they will be closer and we can visit more often.

Personally I think these turned out just as good if not better than any I could have done professionally. Enjoy.