Zoo Field Trip!

Our Zoo has a monthly homeschool class. So, while the big kids have 2 hours of fun learning about elephants. The mom's and little ones get to walk around the zoo.

After his class, we had lunch and spent a couple more hours walking around the zoo.

We had the PERFECT weather.

Here is the link to all of the pictures. I just picked out a few of my fav's

https://plus.google.com/photos/115639023178791141355/albums/5928028835459057921


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7 month pictures

I haven't gotten around to taking 8 month pictures yet... I know times a tickin'

But here are some we took of Vioet at 7 months

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I missed one!

They had a haybale maize that Javan went through and climbed all over most of the morning. Then he hung out in this huge corn pit. That was where he spent most of his time while I took Cosette to see the animals.
 

Early fall fun

Lance went Frisbee Golf with some of the other homeschooling dads and we were going to head to the park with some friends.

Then we found out about a teeny little fall festival at a local nursery so we decided to check it out.


I wish I had dressed the kids for some great fall pictures. It was set up with some awesome photo opportunities. Ah well... next time. Instead Javan is dressed as a crow here ^ ^

I got one cute one of the 3 kiddos.

So, its been a while since I've updated about their milestones these days so here you go.

Javan: 7 years old
He is growing to be much more mature. He is so helpful around the house and with the girls. He loves to hold and carry Violet and is pretty good with playing with Cosette. Lately, we have been reading "The Black Stallion" (we have read book 1 and 2 now) and really enjoys them. He just started Karate and I have to say that its the first time I've seen him really REALLY enjoy a sport.

Cosette: 21 months old
Now that she has tackled walking (phew.. that took awhile) she has been focusing  more on her speach. Like overnight, she went from saying just a few words here and there to little sentences. Its crazy to hear her say thing like "where'd he go" or "hold her" etc.. She now repeats any words you say and comes up with new little phrases every day. She is still a little bit of a fireball... but she is also a VERY loving little girl. She loves her little sister SOOOO much... too bad Violet is a little afraid of her because Cosette can be a little agressive while showing her love

Violet 8 months old
Between 6-7 months she started sitting up and doing the army crawl. My 7 months she was sitting up well and army crawling all over the place. Now at 8 months she is STILL doing the army crawl but she is CLIMBING on everything. She now can pull herself up on smaller object (a box, stool, the bottom step) and speaking of steps... she can't crawl yet but she can climb herself up the stairs!!! She walks around furniture a little bit but she is still pretty wobbly. AND SHE CUT HER FIRST TOOTH TODAY  (Not that being toothless has stopped her from eating just about anything!!!)

Ok, back to our pictures from Saturday...

They had a little "petting zoo". Just some farm animals to me but to Cosette it was AMAZING! We have been reading a lot of books about animals lately and have been working on animal sounds. It was so cool for her to see these animals in person!

 

 

 

I don't know this little boy but it was cute how they were looking together

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its hard to tell but it was a baby chick

All the kids (even the babies) got to pot thier own pansies and take them home with a free little pumpkin

 

 

This cow was a newborn. Her birthday was on Sunday. She still had her umbilical cord.