Where Did September Go?

I cannot believe it, but it's already October! School is going so well that I don't want to jinx it.

Jayden is really enjoying the unit study. We added in another part of her school for the fall. Climate study. She will record the high and low temperature and precipitation type and amount every day this month. I also ordered the reading program that goes along with her curriculum that we will start in January. The program is called Drawn Into the Heart of Reading. Depending on how fast you go, you study nine genres of literature in either one or two years. We'll see how she does, but we probably will do the two year plan for 2nd and 3rd grade. I wanted to go ahead and get at least one genre done before we start the rest of the curriculum (Heart of Dakota's Bigger Hearts For His Glory) so that it will be old hat when we introduce the new harder work and more writing. We haven't gotten very far with the cooking, but it'll come. She's watching me more, and that counts for something, right?

Grace is still doing great with her school work. At this point I'm able to get about 2-3 days worth of school in with her each week... I'm happy with that for now, then we'll start going 4-5 days a week in January.

Julianna is doing much better. She's really growing up and maturing.... she's screaming less when things don't go her way and using her voice more.

Evie is almost 18 months now and her vocabulary is just exploding. She's also the most affectionate of all our children and will just randomly give hugs and kisses and smile at you. She's also on the last legs of potty training. We have a couple more weeks I would say before I'm comfortable with her going diaperless out and about.

So that's been our days lately. Lots and lots of outside time as well... daily walks even for all the girls. And very very good days even on the bad ones!