Summer Homework

Throughout the summer, we’ve been doing homework. At the end of the school year, Mrs. Boettcher gave out a huge stack of paperwork and then I have workbooks that I’ve purchased just for summer time homework as well. Today’s lesson was mostly focused on math with some writing.

We worked on greater then and less then, counting/writing numbers 1-30, spelling simple words, addition, and learning spheres, cones, and cylinders. I added a few photos below. Enjoy!

Spelling simple 3-letter words.

Spelling number words.

Beautiful job on the dot-to-dot!

Problem solving with simple addition.
Beautiful job!

Learning what a cone, cylinder, and sphere are.

She was a bit confused at first so afterward I had her run around the house finding as many cones, cylinders, and spheres as she could find. I didn’t think she would be able to find the cone shape but she surprised me with all the items she found and brought back to the table.

All the items she found in our shape game. Great job!

Later in the afternoon she did a watercolor picture of a “cone” shaped volcano erupting with a forest fire burning in the background! I love it!!

The Sixth One

This afternoon Isabel’s sixth tooth became loose and fell out this evening just before bed!

It had been dangling at odd angle’s all day, after she had bumped into me while I was tickling her. She said she finally just gave it a little tug and the tooth came out. Exciting times! As another piece of her childhood gets placed in the past. She’s growing up so fast!

Looking in the mirror at her “new” toothless smile!

She must have a “thing” for loosing teeth on Sunday, since she’s
lost most of them on that day.

Art Gallery

Today Isabel spent over 2 hours outside chalking on the cement. Enjoy!

To start off with (left to right) she drew a house, an angel, a butterfly, and a tree with roots.

Loving me some “rainbow trout”!

At the park with trees and grass. The green bushes have berries she said.

Her funny bunny has such large ears because she traced her hands for the shape!

Laid out in her gallery artwork!

She was enjoying herself so much she didn’t want to really come in after she ran out of room. She told me if it rains, she can go out again and start all over!

Lower half: A house, an angel, a butterfly, a horse, a tree with roots, a rainbow, a rainbow trout, a bunny, a green spider (like the one she saw a Lowe’s), a bunch of purple grapes, a face, a plum, a bunch of green grapes, and a dragonfly!

An angel, a butterfly, a tree with roots, a horse, an apple, a flower, a sun, a tree, a park, a bee, a sunset, a rainbow, a bunny, a rainbow trout, a green spider (like the one she saw at Lowe’s), a face, and purple grapes!

I love it!

Independence Day

Happy 236th Birthday America!

Last year my parents were visiting and we actually spent the holiday with them and went to a party with some of our church family. This year however we spent the day at home, Gino and Isabel went out and got some fireworks to do after dark. Our “show” didn’t go on as long as some of the neighbors who keep it up until 2 a.m.

Our BBQ dinner was a juicy steak and corn on the cob. Yum! For dessert we had a patriotic fruit tart pie with raspberries and blueberries. Yum! Yum!

For less then $100 bucks, Gino got a decent package of fireworks but way to many sparklers! Isabel even got some of her “snaps” that she enjoys so much!

Waiting for our little show to begin.
She did OK until I got up to do sparklers and then she wanted to go in the house.
I even got her to hold a sparkler; for about 10 seconds!

This was like our little finally with lots of smoke!

Sparklers!

After the sun went down it got really cool, so had to get our jackets.

After all the “big” stuff, we just did sparklers and more sparklers.

Happy Independence Day!

Garden Update

Went outside this afternoon to do my daily inspection of the flower/vegetable gardens.

So happy that most of my flowers from last year came back, I only lost 4 plants to the nasty slugs! This year I’ve been keeping my eyes on all the plants for any signs of slug infestation! We have found a awesome safe/biodegradable product, called  Sluggo, to help keep the slimy things off the my flowers!

Our tiny jalapeno! Both of the plants are doing really well in the pots.

Our garden patch is doing great, just need to keep an eye out for slugs!

We did lose the lettuce last week to slimy pests. They slithered into the garden and had the lettuce wilted and gross in just a few days. Made me so mad!! The radishes have all been picked, they did so well. Next year we will have to thin them out better and maybe get a bit bigger ones. The carrot’s are getting bigger and longer in the dirt, I do need to thin them out more. They smell heavenly!! Can’t wait to sink my teeth into one!

The green bell pepper is coming along nicely and there is another one growing on the other side of the plant as well.

This is (from left to right) peas, tomatoes, and cilantro.

The tomatoes have really taken off since I put the wire guard’s in. The pea plant looks sickly because I just got it into the dirt a few weeks ago! I am hoping that it doesn’t die and gives us more peas. Believe it or not, we have had 3 pods off it and they were so yummy tasting the peas tasted like candy!

Her Toe

Like I mentioned last week, we took Daisy to the vet. The vet remembered us from 2 years ago when we took Daisy in for her front toe sore then. I asked lots of questions and got lots of answer’s.

First, all the little bumps that we feel on her body are fat pockets. She has one on the side of her neck, her right chest side, the top of her prosternum (sternum) area and one on the back of her neck. The one on the back of her neck is of concern to the vet. She said to me, if Daisy was her dog, she would have this one removed because it is not fat. However, since she’s had it for a long time and it hasn’t changed size or shape it’s not of to big concern but still get it removed.

Daisy also has a very active “skin tag” on the top of her head. It bleeds and scabs over and then the scab falls off and then it bleeds, scabs over, again and again. She mentioned getting that removed as well as not to cause infection with it being so “active”.

Now the toe that is irritated now, is not the same toe that was irritated 2 years ago. Daisy’s left foot was infected last time, this time it’s her right foot but it’s the same toe on both front feet that get irritated. The vet said that Daisy might have a toe nail allergy to her own nails!! The problem will never really heal and we should look into getting the nail removed completely (on just the toe that has the problem, not all her nails would be removed!). Poor baby!

So Daisy is now up to date on her shots and is on antibiotics, again, for her toe. She is healthy otherwise and has a great sounding heart (Isabel even got to hear it!), no parasites in her body, and has a great appetite!

Last night the wound was filled with puss and blood causing it to appear black! Yuck! This morning we realized that she had taken her shoe off during the night and had “cleaned” the wound herself!

This afternoon the wound is very red and still swollen but it’s not bleeding or oozing puss. That’s a good thing…right?!?