The fun of the of the last week

Breakfast, love breakfast.


Haylee practicing her cords.


Karl playing with school mates before they hit the books.


Hot cocoa for good kids.

Books before bed. Do you love the PJ's?!?

Rebecca--LOVE this!

Zach garbage-head

School at Our House

Carson's school has gone really well this year. I told the kids that if they got their school done by a certain time they could earn computer time. It has done wonders for all, but especially Carson. He is usually done with his studies between 12 and 1, and he is doing so much better on them than he did last year. Amazing! He has also been a great help to me around the house.

One funny story about Carson. We were all sitting around talking the other day and he said, "The rule of he thumb is that ....(just something he learned in math), but we couldn't figure out what he meant. Neither Karl nor I had ever heard of "the rule of the thumb" until it finally clicked to me that he meant, "a good rule of thumb". It was really funny at the time.

Haylee is my slow and easy child with just about everything. She does well in her schooling, and keeps to herself most the day. She is getting into the independant stage. She can cook a few things on her own and likes to do her hair. She just learned to braid. If you look you can see that she braided her own hair in this picture.

Eldon McKay is a funny kid. He just started work books this year. He has math, reading, and spelling. He just finished up the 100 easy lessons to reading. He loves to read and is excited to move on to "bigger" books. He is fun to work with most days, but I guess we all have our days. I just wish you could all spend a day doing school with him he's so cute about it.

Lydea works hard and does a great job. She has had a hard time with what I think is dyslexia, but I'm not sure. Things get better with work though and she works very hard. Her reading aloud has improved greatly this year, which I think has a lot to do with family scriptures in the morning. Her spelling has improved leaps and bounds. We just figured out that one day of oral review really helps her out. And lastly, she does an awsome job in math. She still has a couple of letters and numbers she writes backward, but it's about 1/2 of what it was last year. I'm proud of her for how hard she works.

Rebecca begs and begs for school. Then I sit down with her and do things and she says, "OK, I don't want to do this anymore." I think she wants a workbook. She loves to color and wants something constructive to color, so I will pick a workbook up for her before she loses intrest. In the mean time she is just silly and fun.

Zachary just make school life difficult, but he adds excitement!

Halloween

Lydea, Karl, Haylee and Carson at the church trunk-or-treat

Our scary family photo! Karl's crazy dentist and Megan's pajama queen debut

Carson's swamp monster

Haylee's pirate
Lydea's GORILLA

Eldon McKay's funny old Chinese man. His and Lydea's masks were way too hot. We had to take a pit-stop in the trick-or-treating for them to change. It was fun though and the night was relaxed enough that it didn't even bother anybody. Eldon ended up as a scarecrow and Lydea wore her trusty old witch costume. I love this picture of Eldon McKay. This was taken at the trunk-or-treat. His face paint was a little worn by this time because it was right after Zacher's birthday party. My little Rebecca. She put her own lips on for her bee costume and she is very proud of it. Karl tried, but obviously didn't do a good enough job because she got the lip stick as soon as he turned his back and fixed it! Our little devil Zachary was an angel trick-or-treating. We all had a great time!