Life with the Holmes'

Monday, May 6, 2013

Spring Day at the Park

Trillium was out in full bloom at Wooster Memorial Park when we went for a Sunday walk.

We searched for salamanders and were surprised to find some new species we had never found at the park before today.

Spotted Salamander

Ellen is becoming a little naturalist too. Here she is looking for more salamanders under the flat rocks.

Daniel was excited we had found a salamander just like the one on his shirt.

All that hiking wore Ellen out so I carried her on my back the rest of the way back. Surprisingly, it's not too hard or uncomfortable for either of us.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

We've been working with Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read materials the last month. Daniel has done great with the short and easy lessons. He's also been doing great memorizing his sight words for preschool. So far he can recognize: so, you, I, the, of, is, see, to.

After the first three lessons in the Hooked on Phonics material there is a short book to read. He seemed quite motivated to try and read it once I told him he could pick whatever sweet he wanted if he actually read it.

I'm so proud of Daniel!

Thursday, February 21, 2013

New and Local

I finally convinced Aaron that we needed a new mattress after I hogged the center of the bed for the last few weeks. So we ended up with the exact same mattress we had since we loved it for over 8 years. It was delivered this afternoon. After inspecting it, I told Daniel we would look at the tag and see when it was made. 2/20/2013 on State Street in Cleveland, OH. That was yesterday, AWESOME!!!

I love Midwest manufacturing!