Been giving the top two (seth and chan) piano lessons. Their practice has been paying off! Some real progress. Started them on chords tonight. Gina has worked practicing into their daily routines so it's going pretty well.
Got their annual standardized test scores back this week, too, and were very pleasantly surprised. Great progress. In fact both Seth and Chan each scored a "Post High School" level in a subject - Seth in science (of course) and Chan in reading comprehension. Way to go, guys. Not bad for a 2nd and 3rd grader. So I renewed their teacher's contract for another year (that'd be their mom.) Being homeschoolers, we don't care terribly much about the standardized tests, but its nice to know they are tracking just fine. Better than fine in fact. Much better than fine. Keep up the great work.
Monday, June 22, 2009
Went camping
Had a GREAT time camping over the weekend with Seth chan chase drew levi and gina. We went to Glen Helen regional park (the "untamed wilds" as I call it ... not) with the boys' Contenders for the Faith school group, about five other families. It was great! Had fun campfires at nights, the kids put on skits, did some fathers-day themed "game shows" to see how well the kids knew their dads. Spent saturday at the park's water park, swimming and hitting the water slides.
Slept well enough, considering the freeway was close and the very active railroad was too.
Everyone had a great time. My better half forgot the camera (she blames me) so as of now we have no pics, though Christina hopefully will email a couple she took of us.
Boys ran around field collecting, er, "treasures" - mostly broken glass ("crystals") and even an old mostly intact muffler. Comedy. A billion bottle caps, Seth made pins out of them w/ a hammer and safety pins.
My tree-identification skills totally paid off. Ashes, sycamores, oaks of course, and even a beautiful, lone "desert museum" (yes thats the name of a tree) out there covered in yellow flowers.
On sun morning I, er, "led" little-kid worship and Rick gave a nice msg. Then a mere three hours to break camp and home we came.
Slept well enough, considering the freeway was close and the very active railroad was too.
Everyone had a great time. My better half forgot the camera (she blames me) so as of now we have no pics, though Christina hopefully will email a couple she took of us.
Boys ran around field collecting, er, "treasures" - mostly broken glass ("crystals") and even an old mostly intact muffler. Comedy. A billion bottle caps, Seth made pins out of them w/ a hammer and safety pins.
My tree-identification skills totally paid off. Ashes, sycamores, oaks of course, and even a beautiful, lone "desert museum" (yes thats the name of a tree) out there covered in yellow flowers.
On sun morning I, er, "led" little-kid worship and Rick gave a nice msg. Then a mere three hours to break camp and home we came.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Old baby announcement email
I was digging through my work inbox looking for something and stumbled upon an email I sent a little over a year ago to the office when Levi was born. I thought it was touching, so I paste it here for posterity. I quoth:
From: Andrew Crawford
Sent: Sun 5/4/2008 10:34 PM
To: Department
Subject: baby announcement
My wife and I had a baby boy on Friday! His name is Levi Peter and he's the cutest little guy in the world. Ill be out next week helping him get settled in, showing him how to use the remote, helping him get his bike set up, etc. See you next week, Andrew
From: Andrew Crawford
Sent: Sun 5/4/2008 10:34 PM
To: Department
Subject: baby announcement
My wife and I had a baby boy on Friday! His name is Levi Peter and he's the cutest little guy in the world. Ill be out next week helping him get settled in, showing him how to use the remote, helping him get his bike set up, etc. See you next week, Andrew
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Red Rock Canyon
On our way to Kernville over the weekend we stopped at Red Rock Canyon and tromped around. Did a nature trail, learned about, let's see, the Golden Cholla cactus (gold, fuzzy), box thorn (tiny leaves, thorny branch), creosote bush, and Joshua Trees (look like pineapples.) This is the boys goofing around on some cool sandstone formations (I'm on top with Levi) at Ricardo campground.
Angels Stadium
Took a tour of Angels stadium today with Seth, Channing and Chase. They took us in the visitors' clubhouse, the Angels dugout (it was pretty cool to walk down the tunnel the players walk down), then up to the press booth. This shot is of us in the dugout.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Chino Air Show
Went to the Chino air show today with Grampa and all the boys but Levi. Levi stayed home to help Gina catch up on scrapbook. Excellent time. Big faves were the A-10 Warthog and the C-17. 
Friday, May 1, 2009
Skate Night
Tonight was skate night at the local roller rink. Had a blast with some great families from our Sunday School class. The boys tore it up out there. Play that funky music ...
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Outdoor Adventure - San Pedro
Had a GREAT TIME today in San Pedro. Took a boat tour of the harbor. Walked to the end of pier. Totally dug the Cabrillo Aquarium. Boys loved it.
Unfortunately camera ran out of battery early on.
Had a really nice picnic on the wharf before the boat tour. Watched tugboats pushing container ships out to sea.
Unfortunately camera ran out of battery early on.
Had a really nice picnic on the wharf before the boat tour. Watched tugboats pushing container ships out to sea.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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