Alli's Picture

shelves

Ah the joy that simple things can bring to children. I found a couple of shelves on the side of the road, which prompted some minor rearranging in the kids room. Alli has a shelf beside her bed now and Laura has a reading/homework area. They are both very pleased.

Georgia Aquarium

Last weekend Nana and Gramps came up and we went to the Aquarium in Atlanta. We spent all day gazing at the fishes and had a great time.

Alli's Going to Preschool

Here is a picture of Alli at her new preschool. She starts Monday and is very excited!

Laura's First Day of Second Grade

The outfit she is wearing was sewn by none other than me! It was started as an ash tree fairy costume for Halloween (she requested I start early to make sure it got finished in plenty of time) But, she decided to take away the wings and have a first day of school outfit.

Here is our inspiration picture http://www.flower-fairies-pictures.co.uk/ff/shop/details.asp?productID=316

Videos of Charlie

Catapult

At our last visit to Granny and Granpa's house a family reunion took place. Ever since childhood when all the cousins got together something fun happened. Back in the days when the electric fences weren't up all over the place, and the old datsun and bug could still be revived we had some grand fun playing different variations of car chase, car tag, hide and go seek, joy riding, etc. Now we're a bit more grown up and half of us have little ones on our heels so car chase was not resurected, but when Joshua (5) asked Uncle Charlie to help him build a catapult, he got the whole crew working and a trebuchet that could fling a watermelon ~ 50 feet.

Here's a link to Daniel's animation of it in action

http://awarenessispainful.blogspot.com/2009/07/catapult-construction-our-homemade.html