This week...

This week, while Marky has been in chess camp the babies and I have spent leisurely mornings at home- and the two of them play SO WELL together. I cleaned all the bathrooms well and did a ton of laundry this week b/c they just go off and get into pretend world together. Tucker is such a gift for Sissy- she loves to have someone play the way she wants to.



Today was the end of chess camp and Marky had gotten his head back in the game and did very well today. He got a "band" (they get wrist bands as rewards) for getting a guy into checkmate, a band for getting another boy into checkmate in less than 4 moves, and won one of his two tournament games. I LOVE the tournament- it's adorable. They shake hands and are very quiet and quick- it's move- hit the clock- move- hit the clock- back and forth and I have no idea what they are doing. See him 4th down on the left-



Thinking, plotting...



Shake hands-



Coach breaks it down for them at the end-



Meanwhile Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee toddled around looking at the library guinea pigs-



Little buddy fell asleep on the way home from the tourney and amazingly let me hold and rock him for a long time after we got home. I thanked God for this blessing- I believe He knows how much I love holding a baby and gives me these little moments of joy-



I'm in the middle of ordering all our homeschool materials for next year and it's like Christmas around here- we got Marky's history program in the mail today- I think Marc and I are more excited than the kids-



These are the two "core" books and they are AWESOME (I think Marc is reading one right now)-



I also ordered a bunch of DVD's that were on sale- the kids are watching the one about Christopher Columbus right now-



I just love educating my kids the way I want to- it's a blessing and a gift.