Love

Grandma has been here for a couple of days

and there's a lot of love crammed in that little bed.

On Land and Sea

Katherine is still obsessed with horses.

 Her Jumper in particular.

Jackson is obsessed with sharks

  and all creatures underwater these days.

There you have it.  

Our babies and their latest obsessions.

School Notebook

Jackson has been telling us recently that he wants the book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See?  I know he's read it before, and I assume his class must have read it last week for him to all of the sudden start requesting it.  And request he has!  He's been doing well at school, so I surprised him with it this afternoon when I picked him up.  As soon as he opened the book, he started reading it!  He's been reading decodable books from school, but this is the first real book he's actually read (and voluntarily!), so I had to record him once we got home!

When we played the video, he surprisingly sounded so much younger!  This was also in his folder today:

On the other side of the paper is an excerpt from The Important Book and he was to try to sound out and write what is most important to him.  Apparently Daddy accidentally killing his fish made more of an impact on him than we thought!

Wet Weekend

The weather was nice and Jackson wanted to play in the sprinkler, so they did.

  Katherine tried her best to turn Rex into her pony.

 Jackson sporting his mohawk.

They definitely enjoyed the cooler weather!

Homework

Poor Jackson loathes homework and sweet Katherine begs for it.

Sometimes life just isn't fair.

Getaway

Zach had continuing ed classes last month in Natchez, so we had a quick getaway!

While away, we toured Longwood again,

 walked the grounds of Monmouth,

 ate at Mammy's Cupboard,

 toured Rosemont

 (Jeff Davis' childhood home; turns out the tour guide there is quite the character and allows tourist to go into each room and actually touch items in the home),

and came home to buy Zach a new truck!