What a fun month!! Soccer ended so we had a lot of free time, though we managed to stay plenty busy. The first weekend we had planned a fun weekend up in Cleveland since Wyatt had a soccer tournament, which unfortunately got cancelled because of snow (while I sit here with windows open in the beginning of December!). Brian still took Friday off and we spent the day at the Great Lakes Science Center. I barely kept from laughing in the women's face when she informed me we lived 86 miles from the center and they have a rule that you have to be 90 miles away to use our pass. She said she'd let it slide that time... Really? over 4 miles??? LOL
The boys and Brian built the arch.
We spent $5 per kid and let them build a robot frog. They took them apart and they were worthless by the time we made it home...
The next week we started our classes back up at the YMCA Gym and Swim. They had a different person every week for the gym class and the boys were not always thrilled with them... We also had an art class at the Mansfield Art Center. And then we did a nice Thanksgiving get together with our Hilltop friends :)
The boys with their 'Crows in a Wheat Field' paintings.
The dogs watching the boys eat hoping they'd share :)
- Austin enjoyed a Boy Scout campout learning how to lash things together with rope. - We spent a fun day at The Works with good friends.
- Our Scout group helped at a community Thanksgiving dinner.
- Spent Thanksgiving Day with Brian's family and the Sunday after with my family.
- At our Pack meeting we made cards to send to deployed soldiers for Christmas. We had a friend visit who was deployed in Iraq and is now a recruiter. All the boys had a great time asking questions.
- And of course, music lessons, AWANAS, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and church. Oy.
- We took a week off school and it was much needed...
Books read for the month: We finished Across Five Aprils, Turn Homeward Hannalee (not a favorite), Bell and the Science of the Telephone, and Shades of Gray (not the adult version!! LOL)
Hours for the month: Austin- 107 hours, Wyatt- 101 hours. Total for the year- Austin- 614 hours, Wyatt- 635. Hours wise we're doing great, but curriculum wise I'm disappointed. Most of our stuff is 36 weeks and we're only 12 weeks through!! I wanted to be much farther than this at this point!!! We never accomplish a ton during December, so if we're lucky we'll be at week 14 :( Yuck...
