Wednesday, September 10, 2014

First Day of Official Homeschooling

Well, Yesterday was our first official day of homeschool and Ani's first official day of Kindergarten.  I say official because we dabbled last year but this is the first serious, no dabbling year. 

She reminds me of my alma mater, QCS, when she is in her uniform.  Her top is a light pink instead of QCS's white, but besides that she looks just like a QCS student.  It brings back memories!  I decided to go with a uniform because all students here where them so it wouldn't feel like school without one, and because it helps differentiate between school time and non-school time. 

So far things have gone surprisingly well.  It's been a nice change of pace - kinda nice to have an excuse to keep more structure in our days :)

Ani in our school corner

 Ani in front of the mango tree with Lizzy.


Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Itty and Peppa

Ok, so once again, it has been a really long time :(  I am sorry!

About two months ago one of Manis' goats had twin babies.  This delivery was particularly exciting because these babies are a little different than most of the baby goats around here.  Their mom and dad are a different kind of goat that Sam brought up from the south for Manis.  Whereas most of the goats around here have short ears that stick up, these have long ears that hang down like a puppy.

Anyway, with the drought, Manis had brought all the goats into the yard.  One day we heard a noise outside on the porch.  When we went out to find the two baby goats looking around for water.  Ani and I got them some water and after that it became a daily routine... twice a day they would show up on the porch... sometimes baaahhing, sometimes just knocking the basin a bit... looking for water. 

Ani has pretty much taken over the responsibility of getting them water and has named them Itty and Peppa :)

Unfortunately I was never fast enough with the camera to get a picture of them both drinking, but anyway, with out further ado...

Itty and Peppa



(the basins were all busy yesterday when Ani needed to get water so she decided to grab a measuring cup from the kitchen... fortunately it was a broken one that I am ok with relegating toward lesser tasks than cooking :)
   
Ani differentiates them by the color of their bums... "Itty has the pink bum and Peppa has the black bum," she says.



Tuesday, January 21, 2014

December Fun


Ok, so I am pretty behind... but, on the bright side, Krischelle has done an excellent job at posting on her blog so instead of my reinventing the wheel, I welcome you to visit her blog for pictures from December.

http://www.rootandwing.blogspot.com/2014/01/living-room-sleepover.html

http://www.rootandwing.blogspot.com/2014/01/unto-us-son-is-born.html

Enjoy!

(and thanks Krischelle!)