Clever Girl

Bella is an all around lovely child. One amazing part of her personality is her love of learning and intellect. She is constantly making up educational games and figuring out how things connect in the world around her.  Her British teachers call her "such a clever girl!" Of course, being the bias momma that I am, I completely agree!

This was the "Under the Sea" mobile she made for her home learning project.  She read 5 nonfiction books about some sea animals and wrote down one fact about each of them.  Then, she had to come up with one question about the sea and she came up with, "How deep is the sea?"

The sea shells came from the beach on the Isle of Wight.

Mommy helped with some of the drawings by providing an outline, but Bella added the details.

Another home learning project involved Math (momma's favorite). She had to use socks to investigate number and record number sentences.  She only was asked to use 5 pairs.  But, we took it to a whole new level as we used ALL OF HER SOCKS.

She put them into groups of 10 (5 pairs) and used skip counting by 10's and place value to figure out she owns 112 socks!

Then, she wrote about it in her Math Journal

Bella loves this Math Mat. It calls out a math fact and she jumps on the answer.

Open Wide

Joziah has not been an eager eater to say the least. We had to do a lot of coaxing to get this little one to try some things.

"Open your mouth like this little buddy"

"You want me to do what?"

"Alright, they're not that bad!"

"I prefer to feed myself thank you very much!"

"MMM, cookies."

"What is this thing?"

"Where'd my dish go?"

"Yum, yum, sweet potatoes!"

"How do you use this thing?"

"Is it this way?"

EIGHT MONTHS OLD

Eight months and Joziah wants to get his hands on everything! He wants to crawl so bad but just can't seem to figure it out. As you will see in these pictures, he is starting to grab and eat the tie.

More of the J-Man (Mar-April)

Easter

Easter was sort of low key this year, but really special at the same time. We never colored Easter eggs, yet we spent it with our very special second family, The Engels.

Joziah was in a bad mood....probably because he realized he wasn't going to be able to get any candy, yet!

Bella loved her loot!

Joziah wasn't really into it

She loved going through her basket

3D Princess Bookmarks from Nana

Bella saw these one day when we were shopping and asked if she could get them but I said "no".  While her daddy escorted her out of the store, I went back in and bought them.  She was so surprised and happy when she saw them in her basket!

Smelly markers and pens

Easter egg hunt at the Engels after a lovely meal

Tucker was holding his own

Bella was even helping Tucker find some

Joziah just watched...next year buddy!

Bella also had to keep count to make sure it was fair

All done

Finding out what was inside

Little does he know that the real treat is inside

So proud to hold baby Spencer