Just a quick reply today. I wanted to share just how much my ds 5 LOVES his bible:
The New Bible in Pictures for Little Eyes. I have it sitting on our end table in the living room instead of packed away on a shelf because he would ask to look at it so often. Now he is often found sitting on the couch poring over the pages trying to 'read' the stories. He also takes it and copies words onto paper from it...last night he did part of the title and the author's name. He absolutely adores his Bible, and I love that. I've had other bibles for him and they were never this special to him. There's just something about this one that draws him in...so thanks, Carrie, for the recommendation.
We are moving forward in
Bigger...though we've gone a bit slower again over the last week due to adding in some health for state requirements, and some book reports for books the kids have read recently on their own. We also took time to prepare Thank You cards (finally) for Christmas and birthday gifts they received. They are still ahead in their English and Math, so that helps me to feel we are still progressing. I doubt we will actually finish the manual this year, since the baby's arrival is bound to throw us off a bit. But, we can always work a couple days a week this summer to 'finish' if I want to. We plan to keep working on math and english over the summer anyway, so it will be easy to add a day or two a week of the rest of it, too. We just got
Guns for General Washington (extension pack selection) from the library, as well as
Tucker's Countryside (my son's request) to read as our fantasy story time book. We've really enjoyed our time with Ben Franklin and Sarah Bishop...but those books are almost finished so we had to get the next ones in order...
That's about it for now. Looking forward to reading about what others have been up to...
We also just started Explode The Code, the Get ready For the Code book. He really is enjoying that. I also have him making play dough letters everyday to help his fine motor skillls. This way I can pick up LHTH for his pre-K year when he will be 5. I already bought LHFHG to do with him for K/first grade. 
