Williams Comic Books:

(William, 6 years old, wants to be a comic book illustrator and writer when he grows up. He practices drawing/tracing/copying his favorite comic characters and stories daily. William used his Fisher-Price camera, took pictures of his drawings, and asked me to download them on here for everyone to see.  He then gave me all the dialog of the comic... so I'm not promising grammer or typing perfection... enjoy everyone! This is all William! )

Transformers: Animated Volume 8, Return of Guard

Written by: William Luke Caldwell
Illustrated by: William Luke Caldwell

This is a big clean up job. Even for big guys like us. "Hey, where is Bumble Bee?", said Bunkhead. "Isn't he supposed to be helping too?", asked Optimus Prime.

 Elsewhere at Sumdak Tower. "Isn't it time that you just do something?" says Dr. Sumdak. "Why is the point that your dad is missing?". "No he's my dad and if I were missing he would do the same thing for me", Said Sari.

 "Ok boss lady. but you might want to take a look at this." says Bumble Bee.  "Hold my calls, I need a break." says Sari.

 "Did you guys see that?" says Prowl. "It's kind of hard to miss," says Ratchet. "Autobots transform and roll out", says Optimus Prime.

 The Autobots race to downtown detour. VROOM!

 The ship crashes in the park. "Robots!?  why does it have to be robots?" says the army captain.

 "No captain. Make your men stand down.  Let us handle this" says Optimus Prime. The main hatchet opens at the bottom of the ship.

 The Autobots line up to meet their commander come off the ship. Ultra Magnus, Centinal Prime, and Jazz all come out of the ship. "Jazz, put a force field around the ship to protect it from the humans." said Ultra Magnus.

 "Commander, we have just started cleaning up after battling Megatron and the Decepticons", said Optimus Prime.

 "Come on Bumble Bee", Says Bulkhead. They get closer to the ship before Jazz cuts them off with the force field.

 Somewhere deep, close to the river. "And so I will sneak attack cyberton" says Megatron. "What do you need me for Megatron, I'm a bounty hunter, not a mercenary fighter," says Lockdown. "I've got quite a bounty for you, Lockdown. I need you to capture one of the Autobots' space bridges." says Megatron.

"Now you are talking my programming language, Lockdown out".  Back at the Auto bots secret headquarters, Since someone took sari's home away, the Auto bots let her live in the secret headquarters with them.

After that the Auto bots went back to the meeting of the all spark. "What the all spark is destroyed?!?", Ultra Magnus, Centinel Prime, and Jazz yell together.

"Not completely destroyed, just part of his energy was destroyed,"says Optimus Prime. "Why don't you stand up for yourself big guy?"says Bulkhead. "Because he knows his place." says Centinal Prime.  "How about I put you in your place?" says Bulkhead. 

"Why do we hide here like mole rats?" says Lug nut.  There is a sound patrol machine so we don't have to worry about the Auto bots, "says Mega tron.

"That sounds crazy, even to me!" says the guy that is two vehicles.

That night, the Auto bots search for the new Decepticon, but it isn't a Decepticon it's a robot body with a human controlling it. "Well, I felt that. It hurt!" says Centinal Prime. "I wasn't trying to tear apart your body, I was trying to keep your body from putting the shield spikes in my face." says Optimus Prime.

A few minutes later... In the Auto bots secret headquarters. "Arn't you  guys tearing stuff up?" says Prowl. "No, we are trying to make Sari happy, but on accident we are not trying to make stuff worse, but we are." says Bumble Bee.

Optimus Prime, beats the headmasters robot and hits him in the head with the battle ax.

THE END!

Public School Parents Guide to Homeschool Parents by Kris

We are a first year homeschooling family, and when we began to share that decision with family, friends, brief acquaintances and those random people in the grocery store that want to know how old your kids are and when they start school, where they will go...etc. Many conversations went something like this...
Person: Your kids are getting so big! How old are they?
Me: William is 5, Cade 3 and Brennan 2
Person: Oh William will start Kinder in the fall?
Me: Yes, he is so excited.
Person: Oh, do you know his teacher yet, what campus will he be on?
Me: We are going to be homeschooling.
Person: Oh.......(insert strange awkwardness here).....
Me: Yes we are really excited... (enter change of subject here)

I didn't change the subject because I was ashamed, or because I didn't want to talk about school. We are so happy with our decision, but I just wasn't sure what to say, so many people are uncomfortable about the subject. Which is why I loved the following article... It is a must read for all parents... Home school and public school alike. Just a sound understanding to help us both through the "awkward silence".


Public School Parents' Guide to Home school Parents  By Kris


A must Read, so true!!

Our First Week of School.

William has officially started Kinder... and I am officially a Kindergartin teacher. If you didn't know we have decided to homeschool this year, and it is going really well. Since we have decided this route for our family, there have been so many decisions to be made; what is our classroom setting going to be, what curriculum to use, what will the other two brothers do while William is schooling... I had no idea how many philosophies, and choices there where. But here is what we decided on for this year.

We are using A beka K5 curriculum for Phonics, Numbers/math, handwriting, and science. A friend and I are co-oping geography/social studies. using "Hands On Geography". We start that next week, and I'm super excited!!
For Bible, we are going to use the A Beka Bible Cards, and also "God's Little Devotional Book for Boys" by David Cook.
We will continue in the "Box Car Children" series by Gertrude Chandler Warner and also venture into a few others.

Here is our school room, Well actually it is our formal dining room, but who really needs one of those?

And here is our School Room, It is small and compact, but for now it is working like a charm.

William on his first day, working on his school box.

All 3 brothers do the Bible Lesson, read alouds, and any craft/art projects for that week. But during Kinder time/seat work time, Brennan and Cade play with their "school toys" on a blanket at one end of the room. There are definatley some adjustments and scheduling that we are working out as we go, but so far the first week of school has been very productive and tons of fun!!

Fall is in the air... Wait no it's not!

Recently so many things around me have just not felt quite right... and today it hit me what was wrong... It's still summer, and I'm ready to gear up for fall. I'm ready for big crisp apples, warm pumpkin pie, squash bisque (recipe coming soon), and cooler days(even if it is only like 5 degrees). But most of all.. I'm ready for school supplies, and more fun days with the brothers. Which brings me to the next chapter of our life... William is starting Kindergarten this year!

We have officially decided that we are going to be homeschooling! I am excited to start school, but since we have the luxury of starting when we please, we are going to enjoy the rest of our summer, and start the very end of August. Pictures of our curriculum and school room are coming soon, there are still a few things to finish up. And just so you know... I love school supplies, so you might even get some more pictures of markers, spirals, and freshly sharpened pencils. Simply because I'm a nerd!

Hope you all have a great start of school, I know it's coming up entirely to fast! May God watch after everyone on this upcoming school year and I pray we will all go into the world and be beacons of light for Christ!

William's ABC's

One of the most rewarding things for me as a mother is to watch my children learn and see the wonder of their little minds at work. Today, William's camera got new batteries today and he needed a photography assignment so I asked him to take a picture of something in our house for each letter of the alphabet and come up with a sentence using each word. So while the younger two slept he took pictures of ABC's in our house. All ABC pics and sentences are William originals. Enjoy!

A is for "Apples are healthy."

B is for Baby "Babies are so sweet and so silly"

C is for car "Cars are for getting places faster"



D is for duck "Ducks are very noisy animals. Except for these ducks; they are police"

E is for elephant "Elephants are very strong animals. They can hold a tree with their trunk. They are very good animals."
F is for farm "Farms are where farmers work, they make food from animals. They plant corn and all kinds of stuff. They make milk with their cows so you can eat more cereal all the time."

G is for G-man "G-man is a superhero who is learning to fly" H is for Heman "Heman is very strong, but he can't fly. He is a superhero and I took and picture of him. This is my daddy's Heman, but now it is mine, because he is a daddy now. "

I is for Indian "Indians are wild people. They hunt animals. They are very nice people. They live in the forest, very far away from Corpus Christi."

J is for Jumping Jacks "Jumping Jacks can keep you very healthy. They are very fun stuff."

K is for Koala Bear "Brennan painted this Koala Bear. Koala bears live in Australia. They are very good climbers."

L is for leg "Legs are for running, they are very useful."

M if for Mommy "Mommy is very nice. She cleans the floor."

N is for Nap "Naps keep you running faster and faster."

O is for Octopus "Octopuses live in the sea. They are very very dangerous."

P is for popcorn "Popcorn is salty and good."

R is for run "Running is very healthy."

S is for Snake "Snakes are reptiles. God made reptiles."

T is for Top (of our house) "This top is called a roof. Roofs keep you dry when it is raining at your house. It also helps keep your toys not wet. Very helpful, huh?"

U is for Umbrella "Umbrellas keep you dry from the rain."

V is for Verse "Verses are in the Bible. They are very important things. Verses teach us about God."

W is for William "I am a crazy nut about video games."

X is for Xray, but the picture got deleted... oops.




Y is for Yoda "Yoda is from star wars. He is very fast and he can kill droids. He has a light saber and the force."

Z is for zipper "Zippers are on pants and shorts. They help you from other people from seeing your underwear."

Wildflowers!

I absolutely love the wildflowers in Texas. It is so amazing to look around our neighborhood and see all the proof of my GOD's amazing power and imagination! After the drought last year, it was so nice to get several spring rains and see the blooms go crazy! (a little rough on the allergies though) We did a wildflower lesson with the kids one morning... it was so much fun, although I will say, I can do anything with this group of kids and have fun. I think I learned just as much as the kids did.