September Begins

 Claire

Another week of school down! Her class just started tracking the days she is reading so I have to be more on top of finding the books she wants to read daily. We went to the library after school on Friday and they found a few but she hates that I make her do some of the words again. Her old school had books for her to read in a progression of learning words and I wish I had access to them again! As much as she fought it, I noticed how well she did when we did it regularly. I've noticed her coloring seems to be so much better! She has the patience to color inside the lines which also translates to her writing looking better and when she does it carefully. If I'm making her do her homework before she can play she rushes and it looks sloppy, but at school her teacher is getting good results. I didn't get a picture, but as I was doing the planning in our garage for our project, Claire played 'Islands' on the boards we used.

Shay

Shay always says they never get to play together because they have to fit it in between breakfast and leaving for school or before bedtime. Her new 2nd favorite phrase is "but we aren't done playing" right behind "I'm hungry" so that's fun for me. I think the cutest thing she does is at church when there is a song, she gets a hymn book out and has to find the page we are singing from. I hope they both are singers when they get older and join me in the choir, Shay definitely likes to make up songs and asks us to listen to her. She helped out during our project too but when she found out how heavy things were she wanted to ride her bike instead. She was excited she was practicing her breaking and would make us watch and clap for her, of course, she was also mad at Daddy for being so loud with his tools. I wish I was better at getting pictures of things but this week was bad!

Project

Chris and I did our first home improvement project yesterday and were pleasantly surprised at how well it turned out and how nothing went horribly wrong! The project we were going to do was go buy fruit trees to plant in our yard but apparently, a lot of places are out of the kinds we want so I'm going to be looking at the places that were closed yesterday next week to see if anyone has any at all in the area! I had mentioned when we first moved in I thought putting shelves in the garage for storage would be nice then found examples of what I wanted on Pinterest and then took scrap wood from some of the trash at houses being built around the neighborhood. The wood had been sitting and waiting for us to buy tools and screws for at least a month! Since our first planned project didn't happen Chris went and bought the tools we needed for the garage project and I measured and started figuring out the dimensions. We had a few tiny 'duh' moments proving we are newbies, but only one small injury on Chris's finger and we now have storage shelves!