Boiling Springs Academy

This past Sunday, Matt took Sophie to visit the Boiling Springs Academy at Primm Park in Brentwood. The builiding is open for tours on certain Sunday afternoons. He thought Sophie would enjoy seeing what school used to be like. The academy opened in 1833, and it was a private school that cost $8 a term. Over the years it became a Williamson County public school and a community church. The building was used as a tobacco barn for most of the last century, but it has been restored in the past few years.

This might be the only outhouse in Brentwood. There are actually modern facilities at Primm Park a little bit further away from the school building.

The interior of the school has reproduction desks and decor from the 1840s.

Sophie enjoyed writing her name on the slate. She also wrote Abbie's name.

Oops! Sophie was acting up, so she had to wear a Dunce cap and sit in the corner. Matt and Sophie had a great time at Primm park.

Abbie enjoys the swing on our playground.

Miss Sophie

Sophie and some of her "babies"

Sophie's "babies" taking their naps

This week hasn't been all that eventful for us. Earlier in the week, we kind of took it easy because Paula has had allergies and wasn't feeling that great. One of Sophie's latest things to do is play school. She pretends that she is "Miss Katy" (her teacher at Mother's Day Out). Sophie has a new little table at home and she had Paula sit down to have her hands painted over and over. She gave Paula proper instructions, etc and marked her hands with a marker. It was really cute the first few times and then it got a little boring. At Sophie's Mother's Day Out, they have nap time and they lay down on mats. Well, Sophie not only has a couple of baby dolls that she likes but she also has various stuffed and plastic animals that she carries around. She calls them by the names of the kids in her class. Anyways, one morning Matt found Sophie in her room putting books down for each of her "babies" to lay down on and take their naps. So precious!!

By the way, the pumpkins that you saw on a recent post didn't make it until Halloween. Sadly enough, we found them kind of rotted out a couple of days ago. So, we went and bought a couple more pumpkins today and hopefully, they will make it until Halloween. The moral of this story is, "Don't carve or punch holes in your pumpkins too early." =)

Sophie is probably going to be really worn out after today because she is going to two birthday parties. We are finally having some nice fall-like weather. I hope it stays around for a while!