Highland

Highland Learning Center. That's were Shad and I dropped off our 4 month old and where we have now watched L grow and complete his final year. It's nuts that it's over and this coming school year, I'll have a passenger the entire way to school. He has had the most amazing year under the instruction of an amazing teacher, Mrs. Reesa. I can not complement her enough. They didn't just to letters, and numbers- she had a bible story each week, scripture for them to memorize weekly, and science experiments to learn. We adore her.  

For graduation, their program was Eric Carle themed. They did an amazing job. The kids, sang, quoted scripture, did sign language, and retold the book "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."

We have no clue what the picture above was about- every time they finished something, this is what he'd do. 

The Inventor

Inventions. That's what he likes to do. Constantly building, designing, talking about what he could make and reuse. I try to let him explore as much as possible, but sometimes he does ask for help. Today when he made a weather tracker, I told him cars don't ride upside down. He quickly responded, "In my world they do." And I'm glad they do- we shouldn't do something just because others do it that way. Otherwise, we might miss something new.

Weather Beamer

Checks weather and saws power lines. It has a tracking device. He built it on his remote control car which flips on its roof. This kept making the weather vane part fall off. So he build a stabilizer which won't let it flip- or at least that was his plan. 

The Crane

This was built on the first rainy morning of summer. It took him about 2 hours including the rebuild after Captain Destroyer got a hold of it.  It also has a grabber, like used to pick up trash with, on the side so it can clamp stuff. He designed it alone and cried and cried until I helped him make it work better. Video below- if you don't see it, sorry. It shows up on my computer not not on my iPhone. Pointers please. -I did post a video on Instagram 

 

 Did I mention that he built me a forklift complete with a vacuum system for Mother's Day? Yep. And incase your wondering, he still booby traps the house with masking tape. Five nights ago when his dad asked him who was he trying to catch, he said he was trying to slow us down- only he B could get through it easily. That was the truth. He had the dining room, foyer, and the hallway leading to the garage booby trapped. It really doesn't help that Lovie and Papa send him tape in the mail and gave him a couple of rolls for preschool graduation. 

Turtle Adventure

Lawson loves the PBS show Wild Kratts. It's really educational, and I have honestly learned a lot! For real. Well, the dogs had been barking and throwing themselves at the windows and after investigating we found what all the crazy barking was about..... And thankfully daddy pulled up a few minutes after our discovery. 

As you can see, the snapping turtle was very large! And Wild Kratt Lawson had to save it and release it back into the wild at a safer location that doesn't have 2 100 pound bulldogs. 

Fresh Start!

No excuses for the three year gap. I'm starting over, folks. And if I have time,  I might backtrack a little.  Or at least stay caught up!