Showing Off the Kiddos

Carter has felt like he is not that good at math.  However, it is clear from this assessment, that he is great at math.

(The pictures are turned, I am too lazy to fix them. Sorry.)

Here is an example of Carter's excellent hand writing. He accidentally brought home a classmate's sheet too and comparing the two just really emphasized how nice and neat Carter's work is. I didn't post a picture of the other kid's work because I thought that would be rude and maybe illegal but believe me, Carter has great hand writing.

Here's a picture Kate drew. I get at least one of these pictures from her daily. "LV" is how she writes "love" and then she draws herself and me.

This is a butterfly she made at school.  She just gets devastated if I recycle anything she makes but holy cow, she gives me a lot of pieces of paper every day.

I can't leave Eli out so here is a picture he made for me this week. He said the orange thing at the bottom is  a spider.  When I asked him what the blue thing was he said, "don't know." So, I think it's something like a prickly pickle or maybe a ghost. Hmmmm. 

Sugarbush Farm

The kids didn't have school on Columbus Day so we took a little field trip to a local cheese and maple syrup farm.

This picture is actually on the lawn of our church the day before but it shows the leaves and Eli's delightful, cheesy smile.

Now, here we are at Sugarbush Farm in Vermont. This picture is B.L.B or Before Lip Biting.  Eli tripped on a slippery tree root and hit his lip right on a sharp rock. He either bit right through his lip or had lacerations on the inside from his teeth and on the outside from the rock. Maybe both, I couldn't tell but either way, he hurt it pretty bad.

I didn't take pictures, but there were some little goats at this farm that the kids got to feed. Eli especially loved feeding the goats.  I didn't know it, but he had a handful of goat food in his little fist and as we moved on to other things, he kept asking to go back to the goats. I was a little tired of the goats so I didn't let him go back. Like an hour later, as we were getting in the van, I found that he had his little hand just clenched around this goat food. It just broke my heart that he had held on to it through his fall and everything and we hadn't let him go back to feed the goats. Poor little guy.

Some pictures of the fall foliage. I think it was even more brilliant last week but it was raining, raining, raining, and I didn't get any better pictures.

Love these kids. We had a fun day together just getting out and enjoying the non-rainy day.

Ouch

I have had a request to post a picture of my smashed finger.
It doesn't look as bad now. The swelling has gone down a lot and one of the blood blisters broke. I still don't have feeling in the tip and probably won't for a month or two. The fingernail is looking better than I thought. I can't tell if I will lose the whole nail or only part of it. Time will tell.
Chad