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First official field trip
Well, it finally happened! We’ve been doing school since August and had signed up for several field trips through our homeschool group. But due to rain and problems with rescheduling, we were down to one field trip and crossing our fingers we w...
Back in the groove
When we returned from Auburn last week we were met with a broken fridge and quite a messy house. I decided then and there we needed a break. Fuller and I had been struggling with school, where it was becoming me pulling him along and everyone getti...
Cheerios in the house!
Giveaway at the end of the post! So, Tebow has graduated to the Cheerios stage of food experimentation. He refuses to eat pureed baby food, so we throw mushy and dissolvable food on his tray. Some of it makes it in his mouth, some of it, not so much....
Mommy Likes Read Aloud
I know I’ve been ranting and raving over Fuller’s reading lately, but I have to say, I’m also enjoying reading to Fuller. One of our lessons is read aloud, a time in the day where I read aloud to Fuller from a chapter book. Oh, wa...
the foudation has been laid
I can’t pick up the camera and take a picture of this, because every time I look over at Fuller he gets embarrassed and says, “Mom! I don’t want you to look at me!” So, a word picture: Fuller, sitting on the couch, reading boo...
TV Time :: Lessons in Budgeting
If you look the right of you screen, you will probably see a video player (at the moment, a mom pulling her hair out is the freeze frame). The video player is part of a parenting network called JuiceBox Jungle. The episodes bring up timely topics and...
First Day Down
Well, after a week or more of build up, we have officially started school for the year. Fuller knew we were starting school on the 17th and kept a mental count down, often asking me to tell him again what we were doing on Monday. I also kept a mental...
Official First Day of School Picture
In preparation for our education adventure, I’ve been reading/ finding a lot more homeschool blogs. The past few weeks the Not Back-to-School Hop hosted by Darcy has been a treasure trove of finding these other families. Since this week’s...
Growing up
It’s hard to believe this kid is going to be starting Pre-K this year. It seems like just yesterday he was rolling around in his room, trying to figure out a more efficient way of escape. Next week we start homeschool with actual focus, schedu...
ABCD… Watermelon
There is this game on the PBS Kids Island website called ABCD…Watermelon. It helps kids with letter recognition and order. Fuller is pretty good at it and it translates into a fun game you can play together- with out a computer! Fuller is very ...
Learn.com Review
This afternoon I was given a coupon code and asked to check out Learn.com. Learn.com is essentially a website devoted to giving people basic courses they need for job skills training or accreditation in a variety of jobs in the business or marketing...
Take Fuller to work day
Damon gave me a very nice gift today- he took Fuller to work with him. All day. While they were together, Damon took the opportunity to help Fuller with his orienteering skills. They started with a map of downtown and headed toward Subway (their lu...
Game on
Fuller is really into the Wii these days, but the other day he opted to turn off the Wii and play Cyberchase on the PBS Kids website with Damon. I’m glad he is still open to other forms of entertainment, especially the computer, which we use fo...
Botany class rained out; substituted Drama & Performing Arts instead
So, the other day, I (D-Word) stumbled upon Important Trees of Eastern Forests - a booklet I borrowed back in Jr. High from a friend of mine and never returned (sorry Rob). Since we’re trying to assemble a well-rounded curriculum for Fuller (an...
School Daze
I guess we can officially say we have started homeschooling Fuller. Damon and I have been talking about certain educational goals we have for Fuller this year. We realized that to reach those goals we should probably start getting a bit more focused...
Fuller’s view
If you know me personally, you have probably seen my camera. It is in my bag, by my side, or in front of my face. I have to admit, Fuller was my inspiration to become interested in digital photography. We have such a great subject to photograph! Sin...
December 5th:: Window Ornaments
I have figured out a way to get my son crafty- play up to things he likes. And he loves, loves, loves paper punches. I have a circle one and a star squeeze punch. The circle one is a bit tough for Fuller to use on his own, but he gets it most of the ...
Writing practice
Fuller and I spent time last evening working on thank you notes for Fuller’s birthday presents. Since Fuller has started working on his handwriting skills, I thought I would give him more experience than writing his own name. On each note, Full...
Reading List: Special edition
Last week there was no reading list and today there isn’t the typical reading list because we still have our books checked out from two weeks ago. This is mainly my fault because I started slacking off on reading to Fuller. Specifically I slack...
Reading List
Last week we were so focused on Halloween fun during storytime, we didn’t really get our usual five books. Instead we only came home with three books. And, I have to say, they were kind of boring. Max’s Valentine (Max and Ruby) - I think...
Reading List
Last week’s Library Storytime theme was all about travel. I held an internal giggle when Miss Halee was asking about kids and their trips because really, we average a trip a month in our family. Fuller is a traveling pro! The books varied on a...
Reading List
Two weeks ago the story time was dominated by the theme of “apples.” The kids started story time with the craft- painting paper plates red and applying a green leaf or two. They started with the craft so it would have time to dry, a very ...
Reading List: Birthday Edition
I didn’t do my typical Reading List post yesterday because we didn’t return our library books from a week ago. Since Fuller traveled over the weekend, it cut into our reading time. So I decided we needed another week to read them and see ...
Reading List
Last week the Library story time was focused on animals/ insects who live underground. These ranged from furry rabbits to roly poly bugs. It lead to several story interruptions for kids to tell about snakes found in neighbors’ yards, who has pe...
Reading List
Fuller is already asking when we will go to the library today. I have to hold him down until around 10 a.m. which isn’t an easy task. Image via Wikipedia Last week the theme was caterpillars and butterflies. One of the highlights for Fuller was...
Guest post (and questions) by Tiffany: Help for the new soccer mom
Hello Crumley Family log readers! My name is Tiffany. I know Alli through high school. I had a blog and mrscrumley was the reason I had started blogging. Sadly, I no longer blog but am facing a parenting dilemma I would like you as readers to give...
Reading List
Last week’s story time was Spanish themed. The books had Spanish words, the kids did a ring around the rosy/ Mexican Hat Dance, and the movie was Pueblo Pluto. Fuller had a blast making a fake pinata. He got to pick out the tissue paper for the...
Reading List
I was happy to learn Damon kept one part of Fuller’s routine when I was gone- they both went to story time at the local library branch. Tonight I went through the books they checked out and Fuller was enthusiastic about all of them. I might nee...
Auburn Raptor Center
Before we took our trip to Alabama, Damon saw the Auburn Raptor Center was now offering demonstrations of its rehabilitated raptors every Friday before a home game. He suggested that Grandma and I take Fuller to see the show on Friday, and I thought ...
