More Dao of Matthew

While this week's post is all about the funny things that come out of the mouth of our five-year old, the quote of the week was from the seven-year old (talking to the five-year old):

"In Cub Scouts you use knives and hammers and things. In Girl Scouts you probably make butterflies or something."

If you'd like to read the first "Dao of Matthew" you can find that here.  And, because he is a fountain of hilarity, here's some more.

 

"Very dangerous mice live in the house in my mind. They poke you."

"I hate having to stop doing one thing before I can start doing another thing."

"I'm never going to not like legos. I'm going to stay on liking legos."

"No baby can be cuter than Benjamin." 

In response to the question what are you hungry for?

"Anything but not the icky stuff."

"This phone slash camera isn't just that...it's a phone slash camera slash light saber!"

"Short sleeve pants aren't good because you can get owies on your knees."

"Some people live in our neighborhood. Some people live in other neighborhoods."

In reference to an amount of food, usually dessert...

"That was very short!"

"I'm doing a good job on the clean part."

"But I hate just sitting in the bathroom all alone!"

Thank you, dear Matthew for all your words of wisdom.

Love,

Mommy

Friday Quick Takes

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I think I may have used up all of my good pictures of the boys in last week's post and therefore these may be very quick "quick takes." I'm also having trouble with my camera cord which is making uploading and editing images rather frustrating.

When I am successful in getting pictures from the camera to the computer, I usually find some interesting images. Such as this one:

 And this one:

I believe those were some Clone Troopers catching the bus.  I have no idea how they ended up on my camera.

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Fall activities are starting up again.  The boys continue to enjoy their art class and I love the things they bring home.

A million dollars for the person who guesses the artist behind the above piece? 

Except that, obviously, I don't have a million dollars. Or even five. So I'll just tell you that it's Thomas' creation! I really want to find some inexpensive frames to hang some more of their art on the walls.  It's just one of those projects that keeps getting pushed farther and farther down the "to-do" list. 

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 Cub Scouts has also started back up again. Michael and Thomas are in different groups this year and I think that will be really good for them. 

~ 4 ~ 

Benjamin finally had his 9 month checkup.  

Yes, he just turned 11 months old. Usually I don't have any problem getting an appointment a couple weeks in advance, but between everyone getting their back-to-school physicals and our being out of town, his appointment didn't happen until now. But, he's a very healthy, happy little guy. The doctor is concerned that he's a little TOO little, but she can tell that he's obviously healthy and active.  I did start trying out the cup with him recently, in anticipation of weaning him in the near future.  He isn't opposed to drinking out of the cup, but he's not entirely convinced that he really wants to go that route.  Yet. He'll figure it out.

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Life is much easier now that "Red Thunder" is back in action. That would be my husband's truck. 

He's pretty happy to be reunited with it and not sharing my van. We got it fixed just in time for all the running around that fall brings.  

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This basket of laundry waiting to be folded has kept Benjamin entertained for most of the time I've been working on this blog post. 

At some point he decided that the clothes weren't enough and he added some dog toys to the mix.

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 My new website is going strong!

I've had a lot of positive feedback from the homeschooling community and just a couple weeks after I launched it I have over 1600 pageviews! I think that's good. Please don't tell me if it isn't. You can check it out at clevelandhomeschooler and please pass it along to anyone you know of who has an interest in homeschooling. I also have a Facebook page that you can "like" and get updates on new posts that way or you can subscribe to the site by email or RSS feed.

I hope you're enjoying the beautiful fall weather! Have a great weekend!

~ Dori

Friday Quick Takes ~ Florida Edition

I'm back! Did you miss me?

No?

Really?

Huh.

Well, here's what we've been up to anyway.

~ 1 ~

The boys have been playing with Legos.

The End. 

~ 2 ~ 

Obviously, they've been doing more than JUST playing with Legos.  

They've also been...

Um...

Hmm.  

~ 3 ~

Well, they've been reading about Legos.

And pining over Legos.

~ 4 ~

The highlight of their summer is now a trip to Florida, or, more specifically, a trip to the biggest Lego store they've ever seen.

The Lego store was not the reason for the trip to Florida, however. 

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This was.

To visit my 94 year old (94!) great aunt.  She's an amazing woman and it brought her much happiness to see her niece (my mom) along with me and the boys.

~ 6 ~ 

While we were in the area, we took a side trip to visit with the boys' cousins.

It's officially too many kids to get to cooperate for a picture. It was really great being able to visit them for the day!

~ 6 ~

Some highlights from of what we did when we weren't visiting with family in the area, or at the Lego store:

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It was a great trip and the boys had a really wonderful time with their Nana and all the family we had an opportunity to visit.

After taking a few days to recover from our travels/catch up on laundry/sort through pictures/organize school supplies we'll be getting back into the swing of things with school and other activities next week. 

Hope you had a great summer and are enjoying the beginnings of fall where you live!

~ Dori