Home Schooling Update

After much prayer, a home school convention, and discussion with friends Phil and I have decided to home school Austin for 1st grade next year. We are really excited and look forward to all the opportunities that this will give our family. Thank you so much to all of those who prayed for us during our decision making. We know that this is the Lord's will for us, and we are ready to get started!
It is our plan (at this time) to keep Ariel in Pre-K at Westside Christian pre-school  for 2-3 days a week. She loves being there and it will give Austin and I some one-on-one time that we may need. Eva will still be at home.
This morning I spent a hour at an Abeka materials display ordering the rest of his curriculum. We didn't have to worry too much about what curriculum to use this year because he was already using Abeka (for language arts) and Saxon (for math). Both of these are great, and we felt that it would be good to keep going with them.
Thank you all again. We are so blessed to have friends like you!

It's potty time!

For over a week now Eva has been telling me "poop" when she went in her diaper. It didn't matter which she had actually done, and I didn't think a thing of it. Then she started pulling her sister's (and once brother's) underwear on over her clothes. I started to wonder about her interest in potty training, but I still didn't give it a whole lot of thought. Then last night she said it and actually ran toward the bathroom. I decided to give it a try and helped her get on the little potty. She ended up going pee in the potty! I was shocked. Austin and Ariel were 3 before they wanted to potty train, and Eva won't be 2 until August. She got to wear a pair of her sister's princess panties until bedtime :)
Today I decided that dresses and pull-ups are a pain when you are potty training, so she went without either. I am pretty sure that Eva is the smartest child I have ever met (NO, I'm not biased :) Twice today she has run to the bathroom all by herself, sat on the potty and peed! She of course was rewarded with multitudes of praise and (the coveted item) a M n M. She has been wearing (sort of) her training panties all day, and we have had no accidents, only pee in the diaper during nap time. It still seems early to me, but I am very optimistic that I will have no children in diapers by the end of the summer!