More Elaina!!!

I'm getting pictures from cell phones and facebook so bear with me. She came in at 7lbs 5oz and 20 inches long.

Baby Face.

Sleepy baby with mommy chowing down in the background!

I'm going to claim those lips! 

Baby Feet!

Big Sister Breanna meeting her little sister. She commented that she would not kiss her, cause "she'll get slime on me" Bre is looking more and more like her mommy everyday.

I think this might the first shot of the family of four!!! Congrats to the Dixon's!!!

I'm a Lyla again!!!! (aunt)

*My Aunt name was originally Aunt Aya (what all babies call me and I like it), somehow my niece turned that into "My Lyla" which turned into Lyla, so that's me Lyla!!! (and I love it)*
     My beautiful new niece is here!!!!!!! My phone rang at 3:58 am, thankfully I have been sleeping with it since my sister-in-law went into early labor last Wednesday. So I was spared that horror of "what's wrong". Anyway, mom says, "you want to hear a baby cry"....well duh!!! So she lays the phone on the table next to Casey and I get to hear all the horrid counting "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10"...I'm holding my breath and my toes are curling.(sympathy labor?)
     Well, little Ms. Elaina was not coming out as fast as her big sister. I'm hearing all of poor Casey's moans and groans. Meanwhile Johnny comes in to go work and gives me a strange look, but does not question why I'm on the phone at 4am...hopefully he woke up before he started driving to work :).
     So after 26 minutes I can hear the commotion getting louder in the room, and the all mighty doctor comes in (side note, poor nurses do all the work through the whole labor and 99% of the delivery and then then the doctor comes in for 5 minutes, catches the baby, and leaves and gets all the credit and way more money that the nurse, all hail nurses!!!!!). Anyway, the doctor is in, it gets loud, everyone is yelling and cheering, and then there it is, a teeny tiny little mew, and then a very loud newborn cry!!!
     Elaina Brooke had entered the world!!!! I'm crying, mom is crying, Casey is crying...and so is Elaina. She weighed in at 7 lbs 5 oz. almost a pound bigger than her big sister. I have a few pictures, but I'm waiting on the "after the bath" pictures. Technology is amazing. Mom emailed me pics, I uploaded them to facebook and tagged Casey in them. Her baby is on the internet less than 10 minutes after being born!
     Oh, this was funny. I get on the phone with my brother and I said "whatcha doing?" he says "having a baby" I joked I was warm in my bed and then we hear Casey say "I need to push again" and Justin says (in typical Dixon fashion) "okay gotta go, love you" really quickly. I guess you had to be there. Also mom gave Casey the phone to say hi while she was in between contractions, poor thing. Also, this was the day I called (my second guess) this is Shane's due date, 8 years ago. Of course he didn't come out for another 7 days, but still.
     So without further ado. Introducing Elaina Brooke Dixon!!!!!

Fresh out of the oven!!!!

What the heck just happened to me????

This blanket is yummier than my umbilical cord!

Light red hair, we'll see if this changes!

Daffodil Parade/Festival

Cub Scouts Pack 175, rocked the parade!!! Their float was amazing and they looked so cute! The sun was shining, even if it wasn't very warm! Daffodil Festival has a bad habit of being rained out, so it was nice to see some sunshine this year. And now, pictures!!! (shocker right!)

Shane and his buddy.

The boys in front of the float.

Burrrrrrrrito Babies. :)

Heading out.

Hi Shane!!!

Hi Johnny!!!

Happy 100th Birthday BSA!

At the festivals Kid Zone

Working on the Lowe's Projects. 

Updated Curriculum List AGAIN!

When I went to order my curriculum for next year, I made detailed lists and charts and price comparisons, I checked out dozens of unit, boxed sets, and workbooks. I checked sites for free shipping, best price and so on. I had it, I had the list set in stone. I wrote a blog on it....and then, I went to order. I changed my mind on about half the curriculum!!! Anyway, here is the official list, it's in my hands, so no going back now. :)

Horizon Math Grade 3 for Shane, Jackson's math for next year is still undecided, it will either be Horizon 1 or Math U See Alpha.

First Language Lessons 3 for both Shane and Jackson, though I chose to get them each their own workbook, instead of making copies. (Grammar)

 A Reason For Spelling for Shane, however, Jackson will probably sit in on these lessons. 

Horizons Penmanship levels 1 and 3, Cursive for Shane and Manuscript for Jackson

Bob Jones Science 3 for both Shane and Jackson, I am still waiting on the experiment kit for this, but it has been ordered!

Studying God's Word for both boys, I'll probably order another book for Jackson to use, time will tell. 

 

Draw and Write Through History for everyone. This links art with history tidbits and then ways to draw a symbol from that time period. 

Color the Classics for everyone. This has the cd to play the music, read a story about the coloring page and then color the page. This is the Patriotic unit, big shocker there :)

Explode the Code 1 and 1.5 for Jackson and Beyond the Code 1 and 2 for Shane, these are also in the shipping process but already ordered!

Bob Jones University Heritage Studies 2 for everyone. I ordered this in January so it's technically a grade level behind, but it's history, there's no real order to it. And it's really great!!!

Story of the World for everyone for World History. This also was bought too early to use, this year should be great. We'll be teaming with two other families to work on the projects together. 

And that's that. I'm sure there will be some books to read and projects to do, but this is the bulk of the 2010-2011 school year.

Also I didn't order from these sites, I found the best prices at:
Pennywise Learning, Lamp Post Publishing, and Amazon (when it was free shipping) the majority came from the first two sites. Also Homeschool Reviews was a great site to, well, review all the curriculum I was looking for.

Lego Land

So the boys go through stages on using their legos. Every time I think I might get rid of them they use them again. Usually when I've banished them to their rooms. Here are a few towers/castles that were created today.

This one is Jackson's the first of the day. He didn't want his picture in it.

Sam's which came down in a loud blaze of glory.

Shane's which is on a shelf never to be touched again. :)

Anderson Boy Project Part 3 Complete!!!

So the mega loud 'hot rod' is complete and yard worthy. All three boys can fit at once, and Shane does most of the driving. It's loud, and an eyesore, and gives me a headache, but I wouldn't trade those laughs and smiles for all the silence in the world!

Happy Birthday Jackson!!!

My blue eyed baby is six years old today. Jackson made his appearance 5 days late and weighed in a 10.1 pounds, with bright blue eyes that never changed! He's always been the quieter one and the most loving one (in the sense he likes to cuddle, they are all loving). He loves his Transformers and we made sure he knew that we know what he likes. Happy Birthday Baby!

Jackson bought this with his own birthday money. I'm not sure I've ever seen him more excited.

We went to go to Busch Gardens yesterday, but it was so crowded we went to walk the beach instead and out for ice at the 'real' ice cream place.

Birthday Boy Breakfast. Shane made him the crown to wear all day, he wore it to church also :)

Present time!!

Transformers!

Two new Transformers, Transformer cup, and a new shirt that didn't have Transformers LOL

Shane made him a book to draw all his Transformers in, it was really sweet.

Birthday Boy!!!!