Double Digits!

She's 10! I can't believe she's 10 already. 10 years ago life as I knew it changed completely, utterly, totally and I wouldn't have it any other way.

Elizabeth Stone is quoted as saying "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."  You can't appreciate that sentiment until you have children. My heart now walks around outside my body in so many different directions! I wouldn't have it any other way.

 I can't go out to dinner or to the movies at the drop of a hat anymore. It takes planning and coordination with other people. I wouldn't have it any other way.

It takes 2, 3, 4 times as long to get ready to go somewhere because I have extra bodies to make sure are dressed, fed, and all around presentable. I wouldn't have it any other way!

Our house is filled with the drama, tears, laughter, curiosity, fighting, eye rolling, and hugs that come with trying to raise another person with their own will into a godly, loving, compassionate, caring, helpful, confident woman. I wouldn't have it any other way!

Happy, happy birthday my sweet girl. Thanks for making me a mama!
"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about."

Homeschool Week 6 - Rr

Verse of the week: Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy. Exodus 20:8

Day 1 -

It's the boy's birthday today!!! He's 5 now. Such a big boy.

Today we started our rainbow collage but we'll be working on it all week. I gave him lots of magazines and he cut out pictures that were red or orange and glued them to our rainbow.

Day 2- Rr is for Rabbit

We cut out Yellow and Green pictures for our rainbow today. We made bunny handprints

We made rainbow crayons by putting chunks of different color crayons in a muffin tin and baking them til they melted.

Coloring with his rainbow crayons.

Day 3 - R is for Robots

We added our Blue and Indigo layers to our rainbow.

He made a recycled (upcycled?) Robot.

Another craft - painting rocks

Robot cheese snack

First we baked the rocks then we colored on them and the hot rocks melted the crayon on contact making  for a fun craft/science lesson

Day 4 - Rr is for Rainbows

We completed our rainbow collage by adding the Violet layer

Made a rainbow out of buttons

He wanted to make a necklace with the extra buttons

He prepares the ingredients for the rainbow density experiment

Rainbow density Science experiment

Rainbow rice Rr collage

This is what the baby gets into when I am working with the boy on crafts and schoolwork!

Our rainbow collage is finished and now we are playing a hop, jump, crawl activity

He hops on the puddles.

Jumps for the rainclouds

More jumping for the clouds

and crawls under the finished rainbow collage. He loved this activity

Day 5 - Rr is for Rockets

Rocket snack....3,2,1, blastoff!

Pop Bottle Rockets science experiment

Rocket for the boy

I think he likes it

Rocket footprint

Homeschool Week 5 - Tt

The verse of the week is "Trust in the Lord with all you heart."

Day 1 - Tt is for Tiger. The boy was sure excited about this day. He loves tigers. We had lots of fun with tiger crafts.

A wooden spoon tiger and a tiger puppet made out of a cereal box, of all things!

Working on a tiger mask

Paper bag tiger puppet and the tiger mask

Day 2 - Tt is for Trains

Painting a train craft

Finished train craft

Train snack - doesn't that look yummy?

Day 3 - We talked about Tangrams which are sort of like puzzles - different shapes put together to make a picture or another shape. I don't have pictures from this day.

Day 4 - Tt is for Turkey.

Time to make snack - Turkey popcorn balls

Ok, they look more like popcorn monsters but I was using food we had on hand.

Working on a Turkey craft

Finished Turkey paper bag craft.

Turkey handprint

Day 5 - Tt is for Turtle. It also happens to be Reptile Awareness Day - how fitting!

he painted rocks green and added construction paper legs, tail and head to make rock turtles.

Snack 1 - Turtle apple

sponge painting turtles for a mobile.

Turtle mobile

Torn paper turtle craft

Snack 2 - Turtle Pancakes - these were awesome, if I do say so myself!

Homeschool Week 4 -Kk

Psalm 34:13 "Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies."

Day 1
Kk is for Kiss

We read the Kissing Hand books as well as a book we had called Where do kisses come from?

He made a Kissing Hand craft. If you haven't read the books you won't understand this but it fit perfectly.

Our snack was supposed to be kiss cookies. They didn't turn out quite right because I had a spacey moment and forgot to buy the refrigerated pie crust so we used cookie dough instead. We hid a chocolate kiss inside each one. Doesn't look quite right but sure tasted yummy!

Day 2 - Kk is for Kite

Attempting to fly his kite.

Preparing for a fun kite craft/snack

bread cut into kite shapes

Painting his bread (it's milk, sugar, and food coloring)

His kite toast.

Day 3 - Kk is for King (Knight too)

We read King Bidgoods in the bathtub by Audrey Wood...and of course had to study our lessons and eat our snack in the bathtub!

Kingly crafts - a crown and a TP tube king

 Sadly, I took a lot of pictures using my phone instead of my camera and I haven't figured out how to get them on my computer...yet. The next two days I don't have pictures to share but we had lots of fun









Edit: Found a way to upload the pictures. I hope it works!


Day 4 - Kk is for Koala/Kangaroo
Our snack was a Kangaroo pocket - half a pita with butter and cheese, wrapped in aluminum foil and baked  til the cheese was melty.
We made Koala and Kangaroo crafts too.

Koala heart craft

Kangaroo pocket snack

Day 5 - This was our fire safety day. We talked about what to do in case of a fire - who to call, where to go, how to escape the house. We practiced stop, drop and roll. We made a firetruck snack using crackers, strawberry jam, pretzels and bread. We had a second snack that was the fire - purple grapes for coals, pretzels for sticks, and cut cheese for the actual fire. We made a footprint firetruck and a handprint fire. He also made a fireman's hat out of a paper plate. Finally, we went outside, drew fire on the driveway with chalk and he got to put the fire out using a watering can. It was a very fun day.

Fire snack

Firetruck footprint

Fire handprint

Putting out the fire we chalked on the driveway

fireman hat out of paper plates

Firetruck snack.