Around Here

Summer break is winding down just a little too fast for me.  I've spent many an hour in the classroom and there is still just so much to be done.  Thanks to Peggy's help with some deep cleaning around here, at least my house will be in order before we start back.  

 

Oh summer, I shall hate to see you go.... 

 

Here is an Egyptian on a pyramid Evangeline recently drew....

and how I love her flowers.....

 

Kyle put a target up on the backside of the window for archery practice.  All three of us have had a lot of fun with the bow and arrow she got for her birthday. 

Evangeline:  "Daddy was creative.  He's a genius."

 

We've also been easy-bakin' up a storm.  In fact, the night of her birthday party she actually slept with one of her mixes.  She was in my face the next morning asking if we could promptly "get to baking".  We did.  I couldn't bare to make her wait any longer for fear she'd burst. 

This morning I was sound asleep when a little face appeared inches from mine saying, "Mommy, how come you didn't say 'bless you'?"  She apparently sneezed and missed it.  I promptly said, "bless you". 

Evangeline and I went to the White Violet Center for a garden tour to see where our vegetables grow.  It was a rainy, cool day, but we had a nice time walking around in the squelchy garden.  There were a lot of different foods prepared by the workers that were made from the produce.  Evangeline impressed a lot of people as she strutted around munching on kale and drinking green "garden juice".