A New Tooth, a bike ride, and other Chapman facts

Joshua got a tooth. It broke through yesterday. I was surprised to see it because it seems like our kids usually take a little longer. Joshua is gabbing a ton now his words include "ahh" "Babab" "dadad" "mama" "yaaa"

Joseph talks so much now and it is much easier to understand what he is saying. Some of my favorite Josephisms:
"Please don't"
"Scuse me"
Joseph will tell us what Joshua says. "Joshua says bababab" It is endearing.
Joseph loves to tackle and wrestle his brothers and sisters. Tonight he was pretending to be a lion, "I eat Sarah" He was growling as he crawled towards her.

I feel like I am finally getting the swing of things with homeschooling. I finally can do my own thing and feel very confident that they are learning and learning well. We have been studying astronomy. I am enjoying it as much as the kids. I think that home schooling has taught me so much. We went to a science fair the other week and came home with this fun experiment.

For some reason Mentos will completely take out the carbonation in Diet coke.

Emma has become quite the singer. She doesn't know the words to songs so she makes up her own. They are always very positive and a lot of time they are about Jesus. Emma loves to quote movies. They watched Barnyard the other day and she was caught saying, "Dude, I got an arm! Righteous! doodaleedoo doodaleedoo.(while twiddling fingers)"

Sarah learned how to ride a bike while at Grandma's about a month ago. She just picked up the bike and did it. I looked out the window and she was riding by. I was so unsure of how to teach Jared how to ride a bike that I have been slow to teach her.

Jared is loving scouts. On Friday they talked about animals and got to hold a few. He come home telling me all the interesting facts I never wanted to know about animals. Like the fact the geckos eat the skin they shed. How gross is that. I am content with our dragon. The missionaries came over last night and one of them wanted to hold him. I forget that these missionaries are still young boys at heart.