Getting Into October

Lexa and Timmy did some jump roping at their frontier girls/quest club to earn their jump rope badge.(It's like scouts but works better for our small mixed age group all together in our small town). They're pretty good jump ropers. They also did the Teddy Bear jump rope rhyme I remember from my childhood. We'll have to try double dutch jump rope sometime. I remember doing that a bunch.

They got their six week awards at school: good conduct, attendance, and honor roll. Timmy even got good conduct. Yay!

The kids get out of school a little earlier on Fridays, so I decided that's a good day to start taking them for hikes. Will loves it, and is often requesting we go for a hike now. I took them on the maple trail at Lost Maples.

They love climbing on the big rocks.

Another Saturday, another flag football game day.

Will's undefeated Viking team

Hugh likes to look at the FFA goats, pigs, and herd of horses next to the football feild.

He was so excited when he climbed all the way up onto Will's bike himself. Then he wanted to be pushed around.

Lexa went to visit a sesame seed farm with the 4H food project. The theme this year was "fresh from the farm", learning about where our food comes from. We brought a couple plants home and the kids liked eating the seeds.

You know it's October here when the roads are lined with cotten. Lots of feilds of it here and big cotten trucks rumbling down the roads.

Timmy wrote a leaf poem.

Firemen came to visit at school. Will thought it was really cool.

Lexa and Timmy got to go on a gifted and talented feild trip to the zoo to take notes for the animal project they're working on.

Timmy always wants to take a picture with the kimodo dragon statue there.

So that was the first part of October. More October to come in the next post.

Remember September

Time to catch up. The fall is zooming by.


We spent lots of evenings at football and cheer practices. Will and Hugh loved getting to run around on the playground while waiting.

Hugh loves to swing!

And blow raspberries,

And say, "ROAR!"

Here's the day Hugh dressed himself. He's so proud.

Timmy's picture as student council president.

I take Hugh for a walk in the mornings, and he loves to stop and look at the goats and horses. He gets very upset when I try to move on. He'd like to just stay there and watch a long time.

Here's a present Will and Lexa gave me. They said it's a "cake".

We got some rain and then some mud puddles to play in.

Pricipal Patrick donned a big green dragon onesie to school on pajama day.

Hugh LOVES yogurt. Here he is eating with his feet up on the table.

We went to the Sabinal homecoming pep rally where they lit up a big S.
Timmy and Hugh randomly matched as batman.

At the homecoming game flag football players Will and Lexa got to line up for the football team to run through and run through the tunnel too. Little Will brought up the rear of the runners.

Timmy caught a praying mantis at school. He brought it home, named it Trevor, and has been feeding it bugs. He's really fascinated with it.

Hugh gets lots of attention from the cheerleaders.

Up on Lexa's shoulders

Hugh offers some more pompoms.

Then decides to cheer too.

Playing catch with daddy.

I showed Lexa how to finger crochet. I remember doing this at her age. She learned really quick and made herself and Will a necklace and bracelet.

Last a nice weekend nap.