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Coming this Fall...

I received three awesome packages in the mail this week!

Package #1:  Handwriting Without Tears for Kindergarten and 2nd grade (plus Kick Start Cursive)

Package #2:  Math-U-See Alpha book and Beta book

Package #3:  Core Knowledge What Your Preschooler Needs to Know, What Your Kindergartner Needs to Know, What Your First Grader Needs to Know, as well as the First Grade Teacher's Guide and an Activity Book for Preschoolers

Now to get organized, put all this together, and figure out how in the world to homeschool three kids at three different levels, with a baby around who's learning to crawl, in a basement!  Going to get interesting around here....

Oh, did I say a baby who's learning to crawl?  Yes, that's right...Baxter has started scooting himself around on the floor this week.  Put a toy out of his reach and he uses his arms to pull his body across the floor...time to keep the basement door closed and remove small objects from the floor!!!

In house news...Survey and Perc test are being done this week...if all goes well, should be closing on the land in the next week or two, then on to a construction loan!!!  Woo-Hoo!!

Six months old!!

Oh, little Baxter, you're not so little any more!  This boy is sitting up and having a great time!!  He's starting to roll all over the floor much like Ruby did to get where he sees something interesting.  He's reaching for stuff and grabbing hair and not letting go!  The kids really want him to start crawling...not so sure I'm ready for that!  He is eating two, sometimes three, solid meals a day and loves all kinds of food (not that you'd know since he screams when he eats and covers his whole self with his food so that he can lick it off, strange kid!)  Baxter definitely has become super attached to his Mama.  He knows when I'm around and when strangers are around.  He still doesn't like noise and has entered that stage of nursing where he can't eat if there's something more interesting or noisy going on around him.  Thank goodness we're halfway to a year!!

In other Ingram news...

Rachel swam the whole way across the pool by herself today!!  She might even swim in a meet next week!

Ford has learned how to add 100s and is trying to work his way up to the time telling lesson so he can wear a Thomas watch!

Ruby wants to do school work as much as possible even though nobody else is up for it.  She is starting to put letters together and sound them out.   The girl wants to read like Rachel!

Allen is getting a new truck and a new jeep for his birthday...did you think he could seriously go a year without changing cars?

I have a job!  It's a small one, but for one week at the end of July I'm going to teach dance at an arts camp at our church since Allen can be home with the kids.  It's only 4.5 hours a day, but should be fun!

We are getting closer every day to purchasing our land and starting construction on the Ingram Family Farm.  Just waitint on survey and perk test right now, then things should really get moving!!