The Only Thing Better Than A New pair of Tennis Shoes...................

The UPS man delivered a much awaited, highly anticipated brown box to our door today. M has mowed lawns, washed cars, sold scrap metal and any other money earning activity you can think of in order to save over $200 to purchase the Traxxas Slash. It is an electric R/C car, a short course race truck, 1:10 scale. Don't know what that means? Me either!! But, he sure is happy about it!

Another Home Improvement Project

We have had this one spot of dirt in a patio filled with cement since we bought this house over 10 years ago.

We finally got around to filling it in.

There were several stages and several helpers involved in the process.








The bags of cement weighed 80 pounds each. M carried all 7 of them over to the project site. He is *so strong.

First they mixed it.



Then they poured it.


M, BJ and Z each took a turns lifting the wheelbarrow filled with cement in order to pour it into the hole.





And then they smoothed it.


Actually B smoothed it, but Z supervised
closely and gave his approval upon completion.

Reading Pays Off

E went to Build-A-Bear today and got the new (just hit stores today) Hannah Montana bear as a reward for completing her summer reading goals. She named her Miley, of course. She read 15 books over the Summer:

The Spooky Old Tree

A Kiss for Little Bear

Frog and Toad All Year

A Bargain for Frances

Little Bear's Visit

Stanley

Mildred and Sam

Frog and Toad are Friends

Stuart Little at the Library

Berenstein Bears Clean House

Wacky Wednesday

Chang's Paper Pony

Thank You Amelia Bedelia

Mouse Soup

The Golly Sisters Ride Again

Journey to the Center of the Earth

This week in science, we studied the structure of the earth. M and BJ made playdough replicas of the earth, showing each layer: inner core, outercore, lower mantle, upper mantle, and crust. Did you know the center of the earth is made of solid iron?

E and Z made their models of earth using paper.

Did you know the earth's crust is 6 miles thick?