Art Time

Lincoln has an art lesson once a week. It's always teaches some new principle of design and then he gets to do a project. The other 2 usually join him.

 A few weeks ago, he really enjoyed drawing a picture, tracing over with black crayon and then using water color. He liked it so much, he began to make more to sell. He called up family members to pitch his paintings. He sold quite a few for $3 a piece. 

I wish I could say he wanted to spend the money on some grand charitable thing, but is was just used for a new Lego set. I'm proud of this entrepreneur spirit though! He found some money on the kitchen counter and asked if he could have it. I told him no, that my friend just paid me back $4 for something I picked up for her. He then replied, "You should have told her it cost $10." Geez, we may have created a shark!

I think he got his artistic abilities from his dad. The bed he welded for us turned out amazing!

*update 1/11: Lincoln had a call with his teacher. She thanked him for the Batman picture he painted for her for Christmas. His response was, "You owe me 3 dollars." Oh man, we had a serious talk about gifts vs selling. Both Ms. Smith and I had a good laugh though!

November Recap

Lincoln has been enjoying homeschool PE at the YMCA. It's a small group of kids, but they have a great time getting exercise together.

When Dorothy sees an open lap, she quickly jumps on it. 

Cleve and his kids came down in Veteran's day. We spent most of the day playing outside, because the weather was gorgeous! Dorothy gave Cleve the best gift Veteran's Day present by giving him some good hugs.

We normally don't do anything Christmasy before Thanksgiving, but we do make an exception for the member's preview of the lights at the botanical gardens. 

These boys are always making silly faces for the camera.

Drake actually sat in Santa's lap this year! He didn't really ask for much. He asked so softly I couldn't hear.

Lincoln had quite the list including a Wii, Lego Death Star set, and many other things.

While we were waiting on Santa, Dorothy and Dave walked around the gardens.

For thanksgiving this year, we continued with our beach tradition. Just the five of us went to Mrytle Beach. I was amazed that we had 70 degree weather, so the kids were able to get in the ocean.

The first day we got there, we told the kids we were just going to put our feet in the water. Lincoln hikes his pants up to his bum, so that nothing would get wet. Drake on the other hand...

It was as if he had missed the ocean so much, he needed to give it a hug!

Dorothy was fine in the water that first day, but after that, she didn't want her toes to touch the sand at all. We would try to put her down, and she would use all her ab muscles to make sure her feet didn't get on the sand.

Everyone loved swimming in the pools. All the outdoor pools were heated and they also had an indoor pool. Dorothy picked up Drake's goggles and very clearly said "goggles." She is totally holding out on us if she can say atwo syllable  word like that!

We didn't do any touristy things and we didn't go out to eat. The only time we ventured out of the resort was when we walked to Krispy Kreme for breakfast one morning.

We had a great time just being on the beach, trying to fly kites, and playing board games.

We had a small Thanksgiving dinner, but we made sure we had a few pies. A few nights later we were having spaghetti for dinner. Drake wasn't interested in eating, but we reminded him that he couldn't have any pie if he didn't eat his spaghetti. 

I looked over at Dorothy's plate and told her she did a good job with her spaghetti. She looked up at me and said, "Pie?". For a girl of very few words, this made us crack up!

I'm so glad we had that time together! It makes me look forward to having Dave home during Christnas break!

Here is our Thankful list this year: