December

Filling our shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child.

We've been doing lots of online shopping which means we have tons of boxes and bubble wrap to play with. Here's Eva in her 'castle.'

I did a scavenger hunt with the kids. Clues for the next bow were hidden inside bows.

At the end of the hunt, they found candy canes. Elijah keeps saying 'candy cans.'

These party hats are actually paper plates Christmas trees. The kids glued pom poms on!

We also played a guessing game. I hid small objects in the kids' stockings and had them guess what they were feeling before pulling it out.

Every night, we do our advent. We get a new magnet for the nativity and I read a few verses of the Bible.

We also have a countdown chain. One kid rips a link off the chain and the other gets to open the door to get out our new magnet.

We made angels!

We made marshmallow snowmen!

Can you see our Christmas trees? We made them out of Popsicle sticks and sheet music.

For preschool at home, Elijah has been tracing Christmas words and reading Christmas books. Eva gets to color a winter/Christmas picture.

Elijah knows how to set up his nativity. Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus centered in the stable. The shepherds out on a hill nearby. The wise men far off with a camel.

Eva loves all her giraffes!

I made a Silver Bells matching game.

We did matching upper case with lower case letters.

I read 15 Christmas/winter books to both kids in 35 minutes. They both paid attention the whole time!

Then Eva made a choo choo out of the books. 

Elijah made a nativity out of Popsicle sticks.

More coloring and tracing Christmas words.

The kids 'helped' me do laundry.

Jonah Week

Hot baby girl with sunglasses and a Pebbles pony tail.

Painting fish for our Jonah sea.

This week Elijah and Eva helped make the Jonah story with the sticker book I bought in Branson. We also made fish and a big fish. Our big activity was playing hide-and-seek...a very "Jonah" game. God will always find you!

I wrote the word 'Jonah' for Elijah, and he glued Goldfish onto it.

He was so happy when he finished!

I can't wait for back-to-school sales. We need more glue.

Eva wanted to glue too! Can you see Elijah pointing because he's excited for Eva?

4th & More

Elijah playing peek-a-boo while helping pick up the yard.

Sticks go in the wagon.

Messy sandbox girl.

Playing at The Grove where we can climb and climb.

Elijah runs down the slide.

King of the hut.

New chalkboard.

Elijah wrote the whole alphabet!!

Drawing fireworks.

Paint/glue/q-tip fireworks.

Painting a flag for the 4th of July.

Wave, wave, wave the flag. Hold it very high. 

Watch the colors gently wave. Way up in the sky.

Kass gave the kids backpacks full of little kid fireworks.

Poppers and confetti shooters and black snakes.

Watching the spinning, light-up, flying fireworks.

Watching the cows: Ellis and Eva.

Sliding and climbing and posing a little.

Playing in the water.

Lots of glow sticks for fireworks at Perkins Park.

New My Little Pony toothbrush and toothpaste.

Snacking on tortilla shells.

Reading like a big girl.