Our wonderful goodies for this coming school year have arrived!! (Actually they arrived about a week-and-a-half ago and have been sufficiently oohed and ahhed over by all, but I've been low on computer time and didn't post yet... 
)CTC looks amazing!
Grant was very eager to peek at the books when they arrived. Here he is with our school year to come...
He is very excited about Birds of the Air! Bigger sparked the bird-lover in him and for the last 2 summers he has been the local expert on the location of ALL bird nests in the area.
He has an egg collection (just like his dad did at that age)...and the excitement is rubbing off on his younger siblings, too. Here's a picture he took for his photography project in 4-H - a robin's nest at Grandma's house. 
He's also very excited to read Boy of the Pyramids, God King, The Accidental Voyage, and Plant Life in the Field and Garden.
And if I'd let him keep going, I'm sure all the books would have made it onto the list... 
His eyes got a little big at the sight of next year's English book. 
And he thinks that Carrie's plan to spend 2 years working on it is brilliant!! I ordered most of the rest of the books I'll need for Beyond for Allison. We'll spend most of the year finishing LHFHG, but will be using Beyond for the Emerging Readers (which we've already started), math, and spelling. She was excited to get a peek at her books for the future, too!
Excitedly looking forward to August and diving into HOD again!!
Kathleen
If you could see me now (and the baby growing entirely on the front side of my belly), you wouldn't have any clue why I'm saying that...