Frogs!

This past week at school Howard's kindergarten class started their first expedition - FROGS!  The Summit School does project based teaching, which they call expeditions.  They teach science, reading, math, spelling, ect all through and while learning more about frogs.  It's a very fun and cool way to teach.  The kids are able to apply what they are learning to something interesting.

Howard came home from day 1 with frogs and was so excited to tell us they had a REAL dead frog in his classroom with the bones sticking out.  They also have a live frog in the class during this expedition.  I can't wait to see their finished project at the end of the expedition.

Hazel is growing and developing.  I had to move the straps on her carseat this week to make it a little bigger!  She enjoyed having it up in the living room.  It was so much more fun to sit in it in the living room than in the car.  :)

Hazel had started taking out anything we put in her hair to keep her bangs out of her eyes, so we took her in to have her bangs cut.  Let me just say, I am not a fan of bangs on girls with long hair, which I hope Hazel has soon (long hair), but now I totally understand why parents have bangs on their little girls.  Hazel was taking any barret or clip out and trying to eat it.  She is still just as cute as ever and she will have plenty of time to grow her bangs out as she grows.

Hazel is a full, full time walker now.  No more crawling.  And she's starting to test things out, like screaming and turning the tears on in an instant to see if it will get her what she wants.  Oh how I remember stage with Howard.

We've been enjoying a lot of soccer, both on TV and the league games Howard is playing in.  I love this time of year for soccer, cook and crisp, lots of exciting little, rosey cheeked boys. Hazel goes along to games and enjoys making friends with all the players siblings.