Sidewalk Chalk Day

The Brooks Museum held a celebration on their front steps a few days ago, celebrating sidewalk chalk! They invited the community to come and draw and play together. There were tons of families but there were also professionals drawing as well. It was fascinating to see these people work! 

My kids drew for about five minutes, then they were done! 

They other cool part was they ha the muse open for free! We mainly stayed in the Dahli exhibit they had. It was so cool to see his work up close. 

"We're best friends, mom!" 

The Brooks Museum of Art

One of the best things about Memphis is the free an cheap things to do as a homeschooling family. Every semester, the Brooks Muesum of Art holds free tours for homeschooled children in the Memphis area. They seperate the kids in age groups, and they tour and take about specific topics. This trip was all about texture. The facilitator was AMAZING with the kids! She knew how to crowd manage this age group! We went on a texture hunt through the whole museum. It was amazing. 

This sculpture is in the front of the Brooks. It's pretty amazing. 

At the end of the tour, they made a texture collage. 

We will for sure be participating I this again! 

Grandma and Grandpa Miller Visit

My parents came to visit in February. They tried to get away from the cold weather, but unfortunalty they came during one of the coldest weekends we had all winter! We enjoyed their company. While they visited, we went to the Fire Museum of Memphis. It was pretty cool. 

Here, they had a fire fightingsimulator. It raised the kids about 6ft off of the ground to spray at a fire. It was pretty cool.  

Joel enjoyed sliding down the fire pole. 

Evie was pretty unimpressed with the whole thing. She refused to be photographed. 

We had to take a trolley ride! It is Memphis after all! 

We had fun going to Corky's BBQ, and I took my mom around to the awesome goodwill's we have! 

We loved hosting my parents. 

Snow

This is about the most snow we had all winter. I enjoyed it for that morning, and then I was done! We love the weather down here. 

K'Nex

For his birthday, Joel got a set of k'nex from his Aunt Becca. He was so excited! He built this helicopter (mostly) by himself. The look of pride he had on his face was amazing. He's growing too fast! 

Joel's 5th Birthday

Joel has been food dye free since he was two. Since then, he' only had white frosting. Imagine how happy this kid was to find out his cupcakes were colored and he could eat them! 

Joel had an awesome birthday. I asked him what he wanted to do, an he said, "let just go to an art museum!" Well... The were all closed because it was a Monday! We did end up going to the children's museum and out to lunch. 

Joel is a sensitive boy. He is very "type A" . He enjoys being in control, and the boss . He's very imaginative! He's always thinking of ideas and places and he loves dressing up. He loves play dough and Legos and video games with dad. 

Joel, we love you. We love you in our family. You are loud and bossy and creative and we wouldn't change it for the world!