Seattle Train Trip

 We (The usual crew, w/ Uncle Porter Basset) went on a homeschool train trip to Seattle.  We woke up at 5:30 and so did the Bassets.  We had to get to Portland at 7:30, and Portland was two hours away from Dallas!  By the time we got to Seattle, it was 12:-something.  We went to the Seattle Science Museum.  They had a special exhibit, "Star Wars: Fantasy Meets Science."  It had a floating chair powered by air force and all the kids gave it a try.  Pictures again:

     Athena on the floating chair:

                                              ME!!!!!

                                                   Courtney

                                        Sanfrodian Bassetonian

                                    Christophersson Dottossenton

                                               Athena Beana Banana

                                                Dorf a Morf

            


Afterwards, we rode a Monorail and a subway and did quite a bit of walking to get back to the train.  On the train, we played Slapjack and Uno and Mille Bornes and made a new friend, Hannah.
 We were very sleepy when we got back, so we fell asleep pretty quickly.


PPOOSSTTEEDD  BBYY  DDOORRAATTHHYY!!  

An Artist In The Making

My sister Julianna is only 2 yrs. old and she is potty trained, very capable of speech, and is already saying her own prayers.  Yesterday she made a whole bunch of glue-and-glitter (and dyed noodle) collages.  She did them all by herself ( okay, I helped a little, but that isn't the point.)!

They were on colored paper.  Julianna was squirting glue on paper and squealing up a storm, saying "Squeeze, squeeze!" And looking very pleased with herself.  I only put on the noodles, because she was obviously only interested in "squeeze!"

  She was making dots and faces with the glue and was counting them, like this: "One.  One eye. Two.  Two eye." 

 I took millions ( okay, maybe I am exaggerating a teeny teeny teeny   bit.) of pictures: 






                                               "Squeeze, Ha-hee!

                                   I obviously loved this one-

                                         Couldn't get enough here either!

                            The Process-  I'm glittering it.

I am so proud of my sister!                                                                                                         POSTED BY DORATHY!!! 

Julianna potty trained!

Julianna is now officially potty trained!!! Actually, we didn't use the "Potty Treat" system. That totally ruins potty training because they think they will get a treat
  every time they go potty. She did it because of all the praise and clapping and cries of: "Yay Julie! Julie's a big girl!"Our fastest potty trainer with a record of one month! She started in February and ended in March- amazing!!!