I know I know..I am not supposed to be posting( I did get Declan’s whole year of SoTW planned thanks to Lisa and History Odyssey )..but I couldn’t resist posting these pictures.

See it’s been raining here..a LOT…. want to see what my yard looks like?

see how deep?

yup..the tents got a tad flooded..and that would be the waterslide ..those tarps are doing it tons of good aren’t they??

But being us… we made good use of the new “pond” and let the kids go nuts!

You can’t really tell but Taejan is on his skateboard…lol

Kayaking anyone?

heck we even brought out the snow sleds for more fun!

needless to say every neighbor that drove by stared..but the kids had fun..heck even my MIL came by and DIDN’T have a heart attack seeing them playing in the water..LOL.. looks like now I can avoid the lake for a few days right?

Well my sister and her kiddos left early this morning. We did our goodbyes last night..it was so hard to say goodbye to the kids! I hate that we only get to see them once a year!

Here’s the 6 kiddo’s:

Declan and Auntie Leelee:( her name’s Lisa but she’s Auntie LeeLee and I’m Auntie Alcie..don’t ask why..lol)

Taras and Noah saying goodbye..Noah and Declan will be out there in Novemeber for a week so at least they don’t have to wait a year to see them again!

Stasia and Ziah saying goodbye:

Then today Eric built me another shelf for the office.Taejan “helped”:

the kids “stole” an extra length and decorated it..kept them busy for a good 25 minutes!!

Well we are just about recovered from our very busy few days..the kids were back to their well behaved happy selves today..much to my delight I must say! So time to fill ya in a bit.

We’re still studying Dinosaurs, we will get back into it full swing in the next few days! The other day we made a dino egg from a balloon and Wheat paste, except for blowing up the balloon Declan did all the rest himself,including the measuring and cooking!

The weather are here has been interesting, warm and sunny one minute, thunderstorms the next then back to sunny it’s a trip to say the least! So we decided to go for a walk in between storms one day last week.. and boy what was going to be puddle jumping fast turned into MUD puddle fun.. I didn’t bring the camera,but here are the results:

Since they were so very disgusting I opted to let them at the hose before they came in the house..smart move I think!

We went out again last night..this time I remembered my camera:

Taejan’s best MUD MONSTER face:

Check out the height on her hair:

Dam building:

Declan’s best MUD monster face:

~Edited Again~ 

 I just posted another post about MORE messy art:

We were at it again last night..care to see:

http://wayzleyacademy.homeschooljournal.net/2008/06/03/more-messy-art/

Edited!

WOW.. I have had over 500 hits to this page today 6/2..so hello all..I see I was linked on several sites/homeschool sites and such.. very cool! If you look up you’ll see I posted a page for all our messy art endeavors! If you have a minute post a comment and then take a look around..welcome to my blog!!

We were supposed to have Thunderstorms all afternoon today..but that didn’t happen ( yet) so I decided after Daddy left for work we’d have some unplanned outside fun!

So what happens when you combine these items?

with these clean kids?

well you get a whole lot of FUN ( and a stick in the mud 2 and 4 year old..LOL)

First we tried in on paper like the person I heard about this from said to:

Right here is where Taejan and Ziah decided this was NOT for them…. Ziah didn’t like getting messy ( DIVA) and Taejan didn’t like the popping noise:

BUT Sir Declan of Moodyville LOVED it.. I mean LOVED it..he made my day with how much fun he had!!

and this is the point we decided to skip the paper!

Doing the “I LOVE THIS MOM” dance..rofl

Noah helped make a few of them, although he was slightly challenged by the whole..zip up the bag thing..LOL

I am the proud owner of a tie dye kid and driveway..LOL

on to the clean up..even the littles got involved!

“Poor” Declan is still blue even after a super long shower..LOL> but he wants to “do this experiment AGAIN momm”…LOL

So exactly what did we do? well here is the original instructions:

Cut a paper towel into fourths. Put one tablespoon of baking soda in the middle of each section and fold the paper around it. Put each “pillow” into its own plastic ziplock bag.

Add a few squirts of tempra paint (the more you add, the more intense the color, obviously), and then add 1/2 cup vinegar.

Seal bag and shake. Put bag on large piece of paper and let it explode, jump on it to make it explode…whatever. Then use paintbrushes, feet, hands, etc. to spread the paint around on the paper.

after the first few we skipped the paper towel and just loaded up the baggie with paint then loaded it with baking soda and dumped in the vinegar and closed the bag FAST..let it “rise” and JUMP.. The paint washes off so no worries about messes lasting!!!

Yesterday we headed to a local farm “stand” to get all our garden plants..after buying them we headed over for a snack and to play!

Taejan was in his glory when he saw the equipment:

We got home and I planted the garden and Eric worked in the yard:

The Garden before:

Taejan doing “Hard work mama”

the kids helping Mommy!

Th garden all cleaned out and planted..well almost..I need to plant the beans and the radishes still!