Everything is starting to wrap up for the year around here! April is always this weird mix of really nice and really HORRIBLY windy days in Albuquerque. We all start to get anxious for the warm, non-windy summer. Not to mention, in the summer, Jon only has one job. Always a plus. 😉

In Awana, Parker’s Cubbies’ student teacher has just been fantastic! She got him a little matchbox car for his birthday and he worked so hard to write his name on the card for her. I was so proud of him! He’s been trying so hard to be big and do school everyday. We started going through the learning to read book and he’s just doing amazing.

Must be spring. 😉 T-ball practice is officially underway.

This kid. He’s either extraordinarily happy or extraordinarily not. 😉 This ninja spoon came in a kid’s meal on one of our road trips last summer and its still one of his most favorite things in the whole world. The kids always teach me a lot about having joy in the simple things.

Someone asked how homeschooling was going the other day and I told them that we were just limping along to the end of the school year. 😉 The kids are doing well – it’s more that we are just running out of things to do! Nathan will probably finish up math and science by the first week of May. He’s doing fantastic. I’ve been having him do some pretty tough reading comprehension packets on top of his other work and he’s just been rocking it. We started this year at the beginning of first grade and I think he’s probably at a second grade graduate level now. He will have completed two years of math by the end of this school year! I’m so proud of the kids – they have all done so well this year! I started the year terrified of homeschooling and I’m ending it thinking we’ll probably never do anything else. 😉 The sign of a great year!