We have had some amazing sun rises and sunsets lately. I often don't catch them, but I am glad I got this one. Sure wish I had been up on a hill with an unobstructed view.

Benjamin will soon be studying ants!!! So, I thought it would be fun to get some.

The boys have loved watching them. They don't sleep very much. Often taking short power naps and then might go for a 3 hour sleep. When they sleep, all the other ants just walk over them. It took them about 2 full days to start really burrowing, but now they are working a lot. When we dumped them into the farm, we were told to refrigerate them for 15 minutes to make them a little sluggish. I am sure glad we did that. We lost a couple as we were putting them in. The boys would not pick them up...mom to the rescue (Jacob was not around though). They are fun to watch.

I always wonder what Benjamin really thinks about homeschooling. Usually when someone asks him, I am around. One of the things he does every week is pick someone to write a letter to. He wrote to his cousin Gaby recently and I was glad I saw the note.  (Spelling is something we still need lots of work on....If I always made him rewrite things, he would never write them to begin with.  I think his brain gets going so fast, he just spells phonetically.)

Benjamin has started home school basketball. They practice 4 days a week and the practices are 30 minutes away! However, he is enjoying it and they have their first game next week. About half of the practices and games start before Jacob gets out of school, so it is the juggling thing for me. However, to see Benjamin enjoy it is all worth it.

The quarter for Jacob ends next week, which means we are 1/4 of the way through!  Wahoo!