Movie Night

Our school had a movie night on the lawn last night. We watched Rio and had a great time.

First School Project - The Chattahoochee River

Today was the due date for G's first ever school project.  For the past three weeks, he's worked very hard on this.  He did research both on the internet and in print.  He learned how to cut and paste using Microsoft Word, and he kept a Word file with his research.  He created categories for his research, like "science and nature," "safety," and "fun."  He chose a poster board and title letters at Target.  He designed a layout for his project, and drew his illustrations first, including a very accurate map of Georgia and the Chattahoochee River.  He decided how to put his facts in his own words and used his very best handwriting to write out each fact.

He wanted to stay up all night on Saturday to finish it, because he was having so much fun working on this, but we only allowed him an extra two hours.  With Mommy overseeing the spelling and Daddy popping popcorn, we had a pretty great time watching him work.  He said that he loves doing projects and that for some reason, and he can't explain it, he found it relaxing to stay up all night.  He put the finishing touches on yesterday evening, et voila! 

One of our favorite things about this is how he drew trees in autumn and layered them, one behind the other, on each side of the river bank.  He did so much work on this - from research, to planning, to carefully forming each written letter, to erasing pencil lines and reglueing loose edges of title letters - that he really surprised and impressed us.  It's amazing what our kids can do!

Les Artists

Lisa and I did a charity painting event today at Paint-N-Party. We had a blast and contributed to a local church's mission trip to Romania.

Growing Boy

Look at all of this food, and look at who is behind most of it.

On Our Eighth Anniversary, Eight Reasons I Love Matty

20 September 2003, Ann Arbor, Michigan - just married

14 August 2011, Tybee Island, Georgia - with 7-year-old son and another on the way

1. He fixes the fitted sheet on my side of the bed when it comes untucked.
2. He makes me the best coffee drinks, even though he doesn't drink coffee.
3. He always asks if I need anything when he leaves the room.
4. He brings me silly magazines from the grocery store as a treat.
5. He encourages me to sit and knit when there are chores to be done, and better yet, he joins me to work on his airplane models.
6. He never complains about anything.
7. He always chooses me.  Not work, not our son, not his hobbies, but me.
8. He thinks I look beautiful, no matter how messy my hair is or how flabby I feel.
9. (like there would only be eight!)  He is really, really cute.