A little late.

Wow, I have alot to catch up on.  We've had some computer issues and some laziness issues and blah blah blah.  Anyways,  plenty of things have happened in the last few months,  things worthy of documentation.  And so, please come along while I play catch up,  re-telling one milestone event at a time.

Our first milestone event is a very special one indeed.  My little Bennett turned one.



being admired by his aunties

playing with fire

opening his present from Auntie Christie

This little boy is so sweet.  Since his birthday which was way back in September he has learned to walk.  He is growing so much and acting more like a little boy everyday.  He loves his brothers and is so happy when they take the time to play with him.  He is such a delight for our family.

Saul's conversion

I often wondered how I was going to teach my kids arts and crafts when I'm the least crafty person I know.  I think I've figured it out..... I'm not,  they'll just do it on their own.

One day Indiana read the story in Acts about Saul's (Paul) conversion and then said he was going to make a craft about Saul meeting Jesus.  Here it is.

This is Saul riding a horse.  The Bible doesn't say anything about Saul riding a horse but Indiana assumed that "he fell to the ground" meant he fell from a horse.

explaining how it works

He's pretty proud of himself.

Venice

As part of our school day Indiana has to read me a book.  Yesterday he chose this one...

So now we are learning about Venice this week.  We made a phone call to grandpa who has been to Venice and each day we spend some time looking at pictures of Venice and learning some facts.
Today the boys decided to draw pictures of Venice.

Aleksei (left) turned this assignment into his project for the morning, always returning to the picture to add another character to his story.  From what I can understand this is a picture of Venice being built (see the ladder)  There are men with hammers and little babies too?

Indiana (right) had a different approach.  Just a quick sketch of the city.... tall buildings with doors on water and a family having coffee on the street.

Indy's Says-it's.

Aleksei: "Indy, do you love me?"

Indiana: "No, I'm a bad guy"

Aleksei:  "Indy, why don't you love me?"

Indiana:  "Because I'm an emeny... I'm an emeny..... I'm an e..me..., I'm a philistine."

Let's try this again

So, I think I'm going to start using this space more regularly as a place to journal about our daily lives.  With our sweet boys being so crazy and growing so fast,  if I don't write this stuff down I won't remember.  My plan is to update once a week and show at the very least what we did in 'school',  that way at the end of the year I can rest assured that we did something.  For right now..... here's a bunch of random photos of the last few weeks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Making stuff.

Indiana's first castle.

Alex's 1st Batman coloring.

Alyosha's Batman

Gabrielle's Batman

Indiana's 1st 4th Birthday Party

   So we had breakfast for his birthday party and invited his friends to fly 18 inch wingspan foam airplanes on a blustery autumn day.
  
   I took Indiana recycling in the evening and on returning home he asked me, "Dad, could I watch Donald Duck and listen to Star Wars music?"  So I turned on Donald Duck and left the room. Three minutes later Indy chases me down, "Dad! I need to listen to Star Wars music." "At the same time?", I ask him. "Ya, you said I could watch Donald Duck and listen to it."
   Indiana did both, at the same time and enjoyed it. It was his only Birthday request. He's got a fun brain.