September 2012

September was another fast month. We continued to have fun at home school. Thankfully, we were taking advantage of some warmer days with gym class outside moving to art creating mud masterpieces.

 

 

Caroline had a couple of big moments in September. She was the only person in her class to score 100% on their first unit math test.

Her teacher is great about sending home lots of pictures of the kids doing something great. It’s also an incentive to them as who doesn’t love to have their picture taken?!? So, we are pleased to see her smiling face often as she is having a great year. Another big school activity for Caroline this year is Spotlight Singers. It is a choir of about 40 4^th and 5^th graders. She had to audition and learn some choreography. She also tried to pull a fast one on us and pretended that she didn’t make it into the choir when we first asked her…she’s taking after her Daddy’s humor!! Speaking of her Daddy, he was privileged to baptize Caroline at church. We were so pleased with her making this public declaration of her faith in Jesus Christ and her desire to be obedient to Him.

For most of the month, I worked on surprising David for his milestone birthday. He didn’t make it easy for me! Because he didn’t know it was a surprise, he didn’t realize how difficult it was. We had been invited for a similar outing for his co-worker for his 40^th, so I wanted to do something similar for David.

We planned an outing to the gun range at Camp Atterbury. It ended up being a beautiful day! We spent some time shooting at targets, both pistols and rifles.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then, headed for dinner at a Mexican restaurant.

We did an apple study for homeschool. We went to a local orchard where we were able to pick our own apples.

We then came home and made applesauce.

While the apples were cooking, we worked on an apple craft.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Such a fun fall activity!

Another fun outing with Caroline was to a Secret Keeper Girl conference.

We went with several of our friends and their daughters.

It’s amazing how quickly our sweet Caroline is growing up, but it’s also fun as we are transitioning into the tween years. The creator of this conference has several books I’ve read titled, “Keeping the Little in your Little Girl” and ‘8 Great Dates’. In many aspects, I missed out on a lot with my mom because she was sick much of my childhood. Our society pushes for girls to grow up so quickly and we want to guide our girls through this time. We are encouraging modesty and open communication along with lots of prayer for the teen years ahead.