Isn’t that just the best of mischief you see dancing in their eyes?
Category Archives: phoebe
The Sockinator
“Whoa! Noah! You are soooo, soooo good at putting on your socks!” (Says she who has daily conflicts with socks…and shirts, and pants and shoes. Three year olds are fun, aren’t they?)
“Yeah, Phoebe…I know…”
All the Better to Eat You With My Dear…
This was part of Noah’s Language Arts lesson yesterday…
We read Little Red Riding Hood (the PG version…the wolf actually ate Grandma and Red Riding Hood!) and then we retold the story with puppets. Learning is fun!
Lunch Buddies
Today was a very exciting day for Phoebe and Noah. They packed a lunch and could hardly stand still long enough for me to get a photo of them on their first day of “all day school.” They are continuing to attend the Montessori school that’s here on campus this fall. What a blessing this is! Their schedule has been Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons, but on Fridays from now on they will leave for school at 9:30. Friday mornings will be devoted to learning basic music theory and how to play an instrument …Phoebe the piano and Noah the violin. So cute.
I’m also doing some math and phonics with the both of them here at home a few mornings a week. They are both so ready to learn…even Phoebe can grasp a lot of the Kindergarten material so far. Homeschooling is really hard – really, really hard – but I love watching my kids learn and grow.
Weeeee!
Swinging. So much fun.
That’s paint on Phoebe’s face, by the way. We – that’d be me with all five kids in tow, my first real outing alone with all of them. (!) I’m very proud of myself – had a lovely excursion to the Minnesota Children’s Museum yesterday, and face painting was one of the many fun things that we did. Phoebe and Noah came home looking like Native American war heroes and Elijah and Zeke like baseball players.
Phoebe's First Day of School
Yes, school…let me explain. For the past couple of months Noah has had the privilege of attending a Christian Montessori preschool (for free!). There is a training centre right here on the college campus, and recently they invited children between the ages of 3-6 to attend. It’s a beautiful thing. The students in the training centre have real, live children to “train” on, and my kids are learning about everything from geography to prayer to sewing. (Yes…sewing!)
So…now that Phoebe is three and potty-trained she can go with Noah! How cool is that? She was so excited today, and it was so cute to watch them walk over together. It’s literally a stones throw away from our front door, too. Well… depends on who’s throwing the stone, I guess. 
Fit For a Princess
Well, first my littlest baby turns nine months old and then – like, the next day – my other baby turns THREE! It’s almost too much for one week.
Phoebe had a birthday fit for a princess. We had a party for her last evening with some other little princesses and princes. Here she is waiting for all the royal guests…
This was her big present. She hopped on and started peddling like a pro. It was very cute.
Here, also, if you’d like to take a peek, is a little slideshow that we prepared for “Phoebe’s 3rd Birthday Ice Cream Cake Social.” (Dave came up with that name for the Evite – makes me giggle.)
Four Down, One More To Go…
Look who has kept herself clean and (mostly) dry for the past four days. That’s right, we’re on our way to having only one diapered bottom at the Horsman house. Exciting stuff, I tell ya… Seriously, though, a newly potty trained toddler is one of those things that can make a parent jump for joy.
Go Phoebe, go Phoebe, go, go, go Phoebe…
