Suprise Visitors and Our Never Dull Life

Well, last week we completed our fourth week of school. I told David each week seems to be better than the one before! Thankfully!! If Treyton could talk, he would probably say otherwise, but even he has been improving!
Last Wednesday night, my Mom called to say that her and Dad were in Tennessee, and decided to take the out-of-the-way back home and come see us! It was a short visit, they got here Thursday night and stayed till Saturday morning. We did not tell the kiddos who was coming, so they were surprised and thrilled and were so full of excited energy, that they probably wore Grandpa and Grandma out! We love getting visitors. (hint hint)

Treyton surprised us all with a new word, "Papa" (Grandpa)
He clung on to Grandpa the whole time they were here

Grandma probably about lost her voice from reading so much! We had been at the library Thursday morning, and had gotten about a dozen new books...

Treyton with "Papa"

Treyton and Rissa were glad to have someone to play with while I did school with Amber and Jenny

Amber thought it was fun to do her reading assignment with Grandma

Waiting for story-time to begin at the library

Amber had the privilege of getting to read one of the story books. This year at story-time, my kiddos are the only ones that come!

I guess Treyton wanted to see how many ''rumm-rumms'' he has, so he lined them all up to find out!

Friday night a week ago it was our turn to clean the church, we had some very willing helpers!

Treyton had fun exploring

Amber with one of her phonics tests, she was proud of her A+!

Jenny made this craft to go along with her vowel song, ''Old Mac Donald had a farm, A,E,I,O,U"

Amber was excited when she finally caught one the new kinds of lizards that we have been seeing. I guess this one did not lose its tail fast enough, she had others escape her by letting their tail in her hand! Oh, and she recently lost her first front tooth!

For Skills class one day, Jenny learned about manners and the proper way to set the table.

I got a tracing book for Rissa so she could "do school too"!

The other weekend it had cooled off so the girls made up for lost time of playing outside when it was too hot. They fall cleaned and decorated their play house. I got amused watching them, but was impressed with their creativity! They got a small dead tree out of the woods, stuck it in the ground at the play house, then they pulled red leaves off of another tree and stuck them on their 'new' tree!

Our stray dog has become a permanent family member, officially. About a week after he showed up, a neighbor lady stopped and claimed him as hers, but she said we could have him cause she was going to take him to the pound anyway. I found it funny when she wanted to show me how he likes to ride in the car. She called him to her car then told him to get in. Instead, he looked at the car, then came over and sat down by my feet. I think she was as surprised as me, cause I could tell he knew who she was! Oh, and she told us his name is, "Foxy"! David said we need to change his name, but it has stuck as Foxy.

The girls proudly showing Daddy their handy-work