Abraham

Abraham

-sometimes thinks he should wear his mommy's orna (scarf)
-says goodbye to Daddy when he leaves (he doesn't just wave anymore, he actually says "Bye, bye Daddy."

 

-plays with shoes all day long. If he's not wearing Ellie's shoes, he's wearing Daddy's shoes. (Mommy's apparently aren't too interesting.)

-LOVED playing in the new plastic container.

-is such a handful that his mommy can't take pictures of him! She's always running around cleaning up whatever mess he just made or is in the process of making.

Eliana

 Eliana

 -had so many teddy bears that we decided to give some away. We took pictures of her with them so she'd be able to remember them.

 -has hair long enough to be put into french braids!

-loves the doctor set that Great Grandma Helen got her for Christmas.

-dances when she hears music.

-can blow big bubbles.

-likes to pretend she's her baby dolls' mommy.

Superbowl 2013

I have many memories of elaborate Superbowl parties that my mom threw when I was in junior high and high school. It was absolutely unbelievable this year to be hosting a Superbowl party at our house in Bangladesh.Of course our party had to be at 5:30am so we could watch it live, but that's what we did! :)

The night before I made football cookies. We were running out of ever ingredient, so I didn't have enough white icing. As I was the only woman (unless you count Ellie) eating the cookies, though, no one noticed.

Franklin brought our stove into the living room from the kitchen and we had a pancake breakfast.

We used the projector to show the game on the wall.

 

Pretty cool, huh? 

Fun in Homeschool

The assignment was to make a 3D object with clay. So, we used play doh to make what started out as just a simple tower, and what ended up being a castle. Ellie's has a moat and bridge. We had just read about castles in History.

 
While learning about old fashioned clothing the kids made these collars. Didn't turn out quite the way the ones in the book looked, but they had fun and got practice using scissors and folding.

The topic was learning about yeast and how dough rises. The assignment was to make some dull dough and force yourself to eat it, I think. We decided to do doughnuts. :) We still learned about yeast. And I was thrilled to hear the kids say to each other, "This is the best day of school ever." :)

Learning New Things

Abraham is working on putting beads on a pipe cleaner.

Ellie's helping me get ready for dinner.

Abraham's First Watercolor

 

Cutting Foam Paper

Franklin took Abraham out for a bike ride. It was my chance to cut out all the clock parts for the preschool English class I was teaching the next day. Ellie was thrilled to get to cut the scraps. 

It's hard work cutting scraps. :)

And I got my pile of clock parts all cut out.