Here's how we roll

This has been a good week for how we roll, as a family.  Our family has been exploring wherever we go by scooter - the bikes didn't fit in the camper as well as the scooters.  This worked out great for everyone but the littlest Utter, who couldn't keep up.  This week, however, we discovered a solution!  She gets to ride on her dad's foot!

And now, other ways we roll as a family.  I suppose this is the case with every family with young kids, but our kids collect treasures everywhere they go.  They're also disappointed if they don't all find the same treasure.  Last week Thursday was a good day, because they all found sand dollar treasures on the beach at Jekyll Island.

Part of how we roll is that our mornings are spent accomplishing the basics of math and language arts for homeschool.  At lunch, we go for an adventure, and we spend some of the afternoon researching that adventure more and writing about it.  That's how we do science and social studies.  So, last week we studies sand dollars.  They're really interesting!  Did you know they like to burrow and they like to live in groups with other sand dollars?  

We also went to the sea turtle hospital on the island and studied sea turtles.  It's interesting to see them with weights on their shells, or with their shells clamped together with metal, so that they can heal and be released again into the wild.

We don't always roll.  We are a family that loves the water, so if it is at all possible to swim, even if it's much too cold, we still do it!

I don't know who the parents are of these kids - who lets their kids swim in the ocean when it's in the 60s out?  Wait, those are our kids.  Well, it's part of how we roll!

Seeing this picture reminds me to tell you that we've moved south again.  We're at Manatee Hammock campground in Titusville, Florida.  We came here mainly to take the kids to the Kennedy Space Center, and also to visit the Canaveral National Seashore.  (That's the picture above.)  It's beautiful!  I think this will be a week that I'd recommend to other people, and we're looking forward to visiting the Space Center later.  However, the highlights for our kids may be a squirrel and a lizard.  The squirrel is quite acquainted with campers and will eat out of our hands.  The lizard, well, I don't know why our boys want to touch a lizard, but you guessed it, that's just how they roll.

I guess that's all for now!  Thanks so much to those of you who've written to us, as I love to hear what's going on with you!  I hope you all had a great weekend!  With love from the Utter family!!!