This past week was amazingly busy! The highlight was the start of our homeschool semester with E. We are using a curriculum called Five in a Row and I was surprised at how advanced some of the topics were. But nothing E. can't handle, so we dove right in on Monday. He did great this first week and was so excited to start learning new things. We bought school supplies on Sunday night and first thing on Monday morning he was begging to start school. He just kept toting his supplies around and even hid some of them in his room! While we were outside learning about pollution, he was excited to tell our neighbor that he was in the middle of class. So cute. ("Pollution" was one of his vocabulary words for language arts. Watch out grandma and grandpa, he might confront you about your "pollution" the next time he sees you smoking!)This past week we also had our first homeschool co-op, our first night at Awana, and I had my first Bible study of the semester. Driving back north to the city for it all proved to be tiresome, but definitely worth it. I am teaching two of the preschool classes at our co-op so if you have any fun ideas for active play and tactile play with a bunch of little munchkins, I am all ears. I was so focused on E. starting school that I totally overlooked the milestone that S. was also starting preschool!
Another change in schedule
Due to the insanity of our home, our family, and inside my own head (perhaps just an increase in insanity there!), I resigned from my full-time position with Answers in Genesis and scaled back to just 10 hours a week. This past week was my first week back to work after taking a couple off and it was surprising—I didn't even have time to work a full 10 hours. Now knowing how time consuming homeschooling is going to be and how many different commitments we are going to be juggling each week, I am glad that we made the decision for this switch. It was a sudden change, but I don't think another week could have been pulled off. We needed to get off the tightrope before we lost the balancing act! Sadly, I didn't even have time to unpack one more box or clean up one more room so we are no closer to getting "settled." But Tyler is also changing his schedule starting October 1 so that he will no longer be working on the weekends. We are really going to need to make the most of those Saturdays before winter comes and it is gets too late to paint, lay new carpet, reface the fireplace, etc.
A tooth for a tooth
E. lost his first tooth this past week and P. got her first one! I also noticed that S. is getting her 2-year molars in right now as well (that would explain her gnawing on everything). P. also hit another milestone in the past couple of weeks—she now claps every time you say "yay"! While she is being super cute, S. is being super mischievous. 
Her feats these past couple of weeks? Drawing with crayons on E.'s bed and walls, drawing with crayons on the family room floor, pooping on the family room floor, pooping in the middle of the hallway at church, putting her toothbrush into the potty, and—my absolute least favorite–dumping a half gallon of iced tea down our carpeted stairs. (I am so glad we haven't gotten new carpet laid yet! And I keep asking myself why we would get new carpet ... but then I smell it and say, "Oh yeah, that's right. A decade of dog.")And we are off again!
We are off to small group this evening for some time with friends and a helpful refocus on what is important. There was a church picnic today which was really relaxing and fun, but we ran home this afternoon to have a guy from church install our 220 outlet for us. (As I type I can hear them through the vent and Tyler just let out a huge "Woooooo!" after a hacksaw was turned off. Men and power tools—a hilarious relationship!) It is a huge blessing because, as we recently found out, electricians get paid a nice hourly rate. He wants to do it for free and so we just have to pay the cost of material. Wow—the body of Christ is continually such a testimony to us! We have had so many people serve us in huge ways like this that we are throwing a "thank you" party for all of them and their families. Now, if we can just find time to pull that together because October is already looking to be a very full month! But more on that another time ...
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