Bidders Are Winners

Jack had an auction at school today.

Brought in some old stuff from his room to donate.

He was so stoked to spend his tickets on things he wanted.

He didn't have as many tickets as some of his other classmates had, mainly because he didn't keep track of them. Organization is not his best quality.

He even bought some of the stuff he had actually donated.

I asked him what in the world was he doing buying something that he already owned and decided to donate in the first place.

"I bought it so I could make sure my friend could have it. He didn't earn a lot of tickets and he's my friend. I just wanted to make him happy."

It was the best auction I've ever been to in my life. Being an awesome freaking human is his best quality.

Little Pumpkin

She got to pick out any one she wanted. All her friends were there and they picked out one too.

She knew that everyone was going to pick one with a stump.

But there was one without and she wanted it.

I tried to get her to pick another one, but she got sad.

I asked her why later.

"He looked sad. Everyone always wants the ones with stumps. And this little guy would never get picked. That hurts his feelings. So I don't like that."

She is the sweetest little preschooler there ever was.

S'More Science

Solar oven s'mores was on my personal science list for the babes, because they love, love, love s'mores. And I'm hoping after this summer, they also love, love, love science.

But, it's been tough trying to find a day to do it. With all the wildfires happening, the skies have been smoky and we've had no sunlight.

I'm not complaining about the smoke, because I'm very thankful that my home is still safe and has not been in harm's way. Prayers for those who have been affected in so many devastating ways.

But it was a beautiful, sunny day on this last day of summer so we took full advantage of it.

They're currently still outside on our deck cooking in the sunlight while we're attending meet your teacher night.

Fingers crossed that we return to some nicely heated s'mores as a yummy treat.

Summer of

I try and have a theme for our summers. Imagine that.

And usually they're church oriented, mostly because our kids need a crap ton of practice at being Christlike. As do I.

But this year, instead of a "Summer of Service,"
we are doing something else.

For FHE, I gave the kids each a gift bag and said that what's inside will explain our "Summer of _____." They were intrigued. Because who isn't by a gift bag?

Then, I gave these index cards with clues on them. After each clue, they had to guess what they thought was our special summer theme.

Some of their guesses, were pretty outlandish. Which made this even more awesome for me as a parent. Jamaica? Disneyland? Come on! Get real babes.

They were still excited when they figured out that our clues spelled the word SCIENCE.

We had fun making a circle map of ideas while watching YouTube videos.

Afton without a doubt will ask to find more on pinterest tomorrow and Jack will ask hourly if we can do an experiment. Jocelyn will just want to play dress up in her lab coat. I'm looking forward to our "Summer of Science."