school at the lake

 We picked up Eric's car from the repair place in Atoka and since we were half way to the lake, we continued on to the lake. This time I brought their school work. They were not excited that I remembered it. This is the first time we sat where the picnic tables were. There were nice grill pits there. Maybe next time we will bring some charcoal and hotdogs or hamburgers.

 Sarah was so cute exploring the site. She found sticks, rocks, leaves, pine cones and the ashes in the fire grill.

                                     Christopher climbing around. I was going to have the kids sit still on the ground and look at all the different living bugs right in front of them that we don't notice cause they are so small but yet God was so creative to make them with amazing details. But the biting ants won out and we didn't try this. We will have to go further north to do this.

                                             Sarah too small to climb down where Christopher jumped off.

                                    The older ones still sitting at the table. Liliana was the only one who really got hers done. The boys were expecting to be allowed to swim even if their math wasn't done.

                                       Sarah and Christopher walked over to this rock and climbed on it. Then Christopher got down and moved on. Sarah stood on it yelling "Mama" loudly. Qorban and Christopher went to rescue her.

                             We left Liliana's tennis shoes in Ripley so she has been wearing this pink dress shoes everywhere. Sarah loves to wear them.

 Sarah, Christopher, Malachi and I walked out on this fishing dock. Sarah was excited to point at the water over the side but was a little unsure of the water that she could see between the boards where we were walking.

 There were two fishing docks. This one was clearly newer. It had this little rectangle of water in the middle. Christopher liked to lower his self down and put his feet in the water here. It made me nervous but he was able to pull himself back up each time.  We headed back to the other kids very soon.

Malachi slept most of the time that we were doing schoolwork. After he woke up, I fed him and then walked to the fishing docks trying to give the older kids time to finish their work. The boys chose not to and so I didn't let them go swimming when we went to the water.  We didn't swim long. We were hungry and it started thundering. I was hoping that it was the ammunition plant testing explosives but then we saw lightening so we got out.  It was a good day.