Well, we’ve been having a smashingly great week off of teaching.  The only unfortunate part is that Tim has been working late every night this week to try and get ahead on a side job–so he’s getting home just in time to tuck the kids in bed.  But it makes sense to have him do it this week since I don’t have any lessons and it will help get him ahead so hopefully he won’t have to work every weekend through July.

But the kids and I are having a great time.

So far we’ve enjoyed time in the sprinkler, going on morning runs, lying around in the hammock, cleaning the house, watching movies, going garage sale-ing, making homemade goldfish crackers, randomly watching our church friends kids so she could get a nap, reading Harry Potter, making monster cookies, and learning all about dragonflies.

About that last one… Apparently we moved to a location where there are a lot–I mean A LOT– of dragonflies.  So, I’ve been working very hard to educate Chloe about them and show her pictures to be sure she’s not afraid of them.  It doesn’t do us any good to have a wonderful large backyard if she’s too afraid to go outside!

I took a video on my phone–let me see if I can upload it here…

Dragonflies!

Okay, you should be able to click on that and it will take you to the video. It’s pretty low quality since it was on my phone, but if you look really closely you can see them flying around like crazy. It actually looks kind of like the specs that appear on old movies when you’re watching it, but all of those specs are actually dragonflies. There are a lot.