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.