Mud, Classical Conversations, Chicks, and Project Talks

Clownin' Around.

 In April, we incubated 18 eggs and hatched 7 chicks!  We named them, bonded with them, and then moved them to the Canterburys to make a new home. :)

 We've seized the nice weather for some longer nature study times.

A muddy creek makes one of the best schoolhouses there is.

 We ran into some friends who were on a class field trip one day!

 In CC, Malia and Josie presented their Faces of History report - Malia on Elisabeth Elliot, and Josie on Sybil Ludington.  They did a great job!

They also both attempted for Memory Master their first year in CC, and both accomplished it!

And this was our month to present at our 4-H club meeting as well.  Josie did a project talk called Happy, Hoppy, Holland Lops.  (I see the alliteration practice from IEW playing into her title here.:)

 And Malia did a project talk called How to Keep a Crested Gecko.

 As I reflect on these flying days and months of the elementary years, there is a sense of speed and chaos to our lives, yet also a sense of ordered richness.  Can that be happening simultaneously?  I think so.  Our days are full of blessing and wonder.  Dear friends, kids that are learning, a great church body, activities that the kids enjoy, growing sibling relationships, college students to love and pour into, and a hopping neighborhood of playful children.  Lord, let me not miss all that you are doing each day in our lives.  May I not get so focused on the tasks that I miss the moments where you are teaching and revealing yourself to our family.  I want to be most acutely tuned into that.  Lead and speak to these children of yours as they grow up and face life.  You are what they need most of all.