school stuffs

we have had so many school projects/activities the past couple weeks. luckily, they have all been fun! here are a few that we documented with pictures:

first up was jack's 5th grade revolutionary war wax museum.

jack was a naval captain named John Paul Jones. he wasn't necessarily my favorite person, based on the little we know of him, but that doesn't matter. jack did a great job with his research and with his acting. we were one of jack's first visitors so he was a little tight. he told us that by the end he had it down and wasn't nervous anymore so it was a bit smoother.

he got to stand next to his buddy Ahmed, who was George Washington.

owen came with me to the wax museum and loved loved loved pushing everyones buttons... without actually listening to any of them :)

next up was caroling!

charlie was able to go caroling one day, but it was on a field trip to Crystal Bridges Museum so i wasn't able to go watch him. jack and ellie were also able to go caroling. jack went to the court house, a bank, a car dealership, and chic fil a and ellie caroled at walmart and cici's pizza, followed by pizza.  she was proud of the 5 slices she ate :)

ellie on her caroling field trip with her best friend anna. 

the kids have a great music teacher, mrs hill, who makes things like this super fun. the kids all love music class because of her. they sang songs that aren't usually sung and have a blast doing it, although ellie does get a little embarrassed when she asks the kids to dance.

the 5th grade christmas float parade was a fun project!

every year the 5th graders make floats out of shoe boxes and go on a little parade around the school. they get to do anything they want in regards to the holidays. its not graded, just a fun project. jack knew right away he wanted to do santa in florida, so we came up with the idea of santa, the day after christmas.

we worked on it together a couple saturday's before because we knew we'd have a lot going on around the time of the actual parade.

jack made everything out of sculpy clay. yes, i did do the santa, but jack did everything else, with some help from ellie. chris was the engineer to make sure our palm tree was stable. it ended up being a great saturday night family affair!

i thought the kids would be at the point in their lives where they wouldn't necessarily want their mama and baby brother to come visit them at their class christmas parties anymore. when they asked me this morning if i would be there and i said that i hadn't planned on it, they all shouted "WHAT? WHY?". obviously i didn't say "because I'm not cool" instead i said "because your baby brother isn't cool... is he???" and they all said they didn't care if he ate all their treats or played their games with them. grateful they still love me and want me to be there with them... and owen too!

and the following items have nothing to do with school, but they are awesome.

item #1:

we found a pizza crust recipe that we loved! its only taken about 5,000 other (yummy!) attempts

item #2:

saturday morning snuggles with my baby

this baby is POTTY TRAINED!!!!!!!!! he said he wanted to go to school and i told him he had to be 5 years old and he had to wear underwear. he took off his diaper right then and asked for undies and a backpack. we've only had a few messy accidents (including his first poop which he decided to do in my closet instead of on the toilet) but other than that he has done amazingly well!

item#3:

apparently santa shops at walmart on saturday night too. 

and he only needed some fresca and slippers.