My dad made me blog. Part 2

Geez.  I really am behind.! Here is a gazillion more pictures:  Peter on the first day of 1st grade! He wasn't really 'into' me taking pictures.  Can you tell?  He just wanted to go to school.  And he is doing great and loving it.  We have about 20-30 minutes of homework every night.  He is learning upper-case cursive letters now, along with how to read a map, cardinal directions, counting money and has a test next week on world geography- the 7 continents and all the oceans.  He is starting fractions in math, and POWER reading, where I get to time him and see how many words per minute he can read.  He is up to 125wpm now.  Impressive!  Way to go Peter.  I hope he keeps this enthusiasm for learning.  It is so great to see him learn and succeed!  P.S.  I love his school.  I don't know if I can ever go back to public school. 

 Mr. Heath, looking spiffy before church last week.  I can't get enough of this little guy.  His smile just melts my heart!

 

 This is now how Brooke poses for any pictures if you don't give her other guidelines: ha ha!
Miss Maggie moved last week and we sure have been missing her!

 And of course, what would summer be without HAIL?! 
Brooke thought it would be fun to put her suit on and play in it.  Crazy chick.  It was FREEZING out!

 Devin and Nicole came up for the weekend, which was so fun!  We did some biking, some hiking, and some boating.  Here are Heath and Teddy being buddies

 We went to the hot air balloon festival, which was kind of a bust because it was too windy to light them up. (It was a night thing where they put lanterns in the balloons.  They only got 2 a fourth of the way up and took them down)

 But they did light the fire torches.  Check out the look on his face!

 And finally, Brooke had her first day of preschool today.  She is SO ready and more than a little excited.

 Brooke is learning how to write her letters and starting to sound out the sounds they make.  I am hoping to get her reading by the end of this school year.  She asks me constantly to 'do worksheets' and practice handwriting and reading.  I do love this girl!

 Heath kind of wanted to go too...(so sad!)

 But he cheered right up when I told him he could play with my Ipod for a minute when we got home!