Switching out clothes, part 1...

For several weeks now we have been talking about making the big switch, switching out our winter clothes to summer clothes, that is.  I still haven't gotten around to it, but Emmaline, bless her heart, decided to do her own clothes as much as she could.  She spent one whole morning in between school and chores going through all the clothes in her drawers, refolding it, deciding what to keep out, and putting only the summery type clothes back in the drawer!  This from the girl who a few years ago was known to stuff her clothes (clean or dirty) in any possible location, so long as she didn't have to deal with it!  :-) 

                                                                 I'm so proud of her!

Wall Art...

Josiah decided to draw a lovely picture in beautiful blue crayon...all over my bedroom wall!  The policy in our house is "if you make the mess, you clean it up" (when age appropriate of course).  So, Josiah has spent every afternoon scrubbing away at his drawing with a magic eraser and still has a long way to go.  Here's his progress so far...it was a LARGE drawing!

As you can tell, he is not too thrilled about cleaning it all off.  Maybe this will teach him not to draw on the walls in the future!

Moving up!

After 5 children in 7 years I was a bit tired of having a permanent highchair in our kitchen so I decided to pack it away and move Micah into a booster seat at our table.  So far, so good!  Micah loves being with everyone else!

Cooking Fun!

After reading a friend's blog about allowing her kids to cook, I decided to give some of my kiddos a chance to cook too.  Elijah was the first one to give it a try, I let him make corn muffins from a box mix.  He had a great time and required minimal supervision since he can read!  They turned out really good and he was soooo proud of himself!