What's going on here

Spring has finally sprung in the mountains.....well, sort of. The snow is finally gone. It took a looongg time! We made maple syrup. We only made a little over 2 gallons....about half of what we were able to make last year. The kids all love to help with this....from daily gathering sap to helping boil it down (an all-day process) to bottling it up to eating it!

School is going strong. Lily loves to do school! She's learned all her letters and is working on learning all her numbers and little words. She can write many names and loves to copy words down in her notebook. She's a whiz on the computer too! The other day she said, "James showed me a new game on the computer. Good thing it had a walkthrough, so I knew how to play it." What four year old knows what "walkthroughs" are for computer games!?!
Leah is plowing through second grade and doing great. She loves, loves, loves to read!! She's also recently started some multiplication and she is so excited about that!
James is a third grader who has excelled this year. He loves math, so much so, that he often brings it to bed and does before falling asleep.
Cal has been working through fifth grade. It's harder this year, but he's doing well. He really enjoys his physics course. He's doing really well with his Latin lessons that he's taking from a friend's mom.

The younger three all got roller skates and took to them with no problem. Making the switch from hockey skates to roller skates was easy. Lily even takes off when we go on the bike trail.

Happy Spring!