Mostly school, first half of September

Fun holidays can't last forever. School has to begin again. Daniel does a lot of his work in his room.

Nathan is also busy in his room. Mostly we get to see him when he is hungry.

Matthew likes to do his math in the kitchen. He says he can concentrate here better.

Evelyn gets her work done before everyone else. That's the benefit of being in primary school!

Matthew plugging away at his work.

Some school work needs to be done on the laptops. So the kids have to do that in the kitchen or living room.

Tea helps stimulate the brain...hopefully.

Evelyn jumps on the piano first thing after breakfast and does her practice very enthusiastically. Eventually she has time for the more traditional school like math reading and writing.

Melanie is also up in her room doing her school most of the morning.

Across the hall is another studious child.

Typing and dutch are done on the computers. They can be frustrating at times since the programs are a bit old and clunky at times.

The kids get sent outside every afternoon, and seem to like hanging out by the apartment side of the house these days.

In fact they sit up in the trees and appear to be spy into the apartment a lot.

The girls, especially, seem keen to see what is going on. We happen to have a newlywed couple who moved in at the middle of August, sometime when we were busy with company and holidays.

I'm sure Melanie has a legitimate reason to be here, not spying. Our "lady tenant" invites the kids to do applesauce and such with her, so they can actually visit and and get to know her is a more socially acceptable way.

That swing sure got interesting and exciting this September!

School time this fall required a bunch of painting projects. Nothing like online how to videos to give the kids their directions.

The girls had enough spare time to get into the sewing room and work on projects. Evelyn is making a quilt.

Jennifer is working on a dress.

And Melanie is using a lampshade to trace out some secret squares for a top secret surprise quilt she is working on.

Matthew working on painting. He didn't like the video ideas and decided to find a picture he liked and figure out how to copy it himself.

And Nathan has been busy communicating with Grandpa again, apparently. Could be his dirtbike, or it could be his gocart, I have no idea! :p