Wednesday

After taking a picture every single day of 2009... I got a little burnt out with taking pictures this month... so sorry that the pictures and blog posts lately are few and far between.

However I do have a picture taken just last night. We took the kiddos to the Lab at the Library where the subject was all about the skeletal system and our bones. The kids seriously dig this stuff, which is so fun to see them excited about learning.  Here was one of the projects that they did... they had a blank body and then had to put the bones and labels in the correct areas.

Walker is currently obsessed with the solar system we've checked out just about every kid age solar system book and I'm debating about making a model with him or just buying a model kit that you just snap together... haven't found the right solution yet. Next week's library trip we will head up to the second floor... to check out the non fiction adult books on the solar system.

Ainsley's all of a sudden taken a huge step in reading... before it wasn't necessarily a struggle to have her read but she had to be reminded to get in her 30 minutes of reading. But lately she's reading every chance she can get and reading more in depth chapter books. Last night she picked out a longer chapter book and Walker says, "Hey that looks like a Mommy/Daddy size book." She was just tested on her reading level and she averages reading at a high 3rd grade level and can check out books from the school library into the 4th grade level... which makes her almost giddy because as she says, "They have way better books in 4th grade."