Rainy Day

Rainy days can be long. Especially with little ones to keep out of trouble the whole day! Thankfully, our day started with library story time this morning, which took care of the morning. They do both nap still, so that took the first two hours of the afternoon. The rest of the day though (from around 2pm until 6pm) needed to be filled! And, with lightning and thunder (and thus warnings of cloud to ground strikes), it wasn't wise to entertain them by taking them out in the rain. 

My little lefty :)

We spent some time doing school. Rebecca worked on a counting/colouring sheet, and Elias started working on yellow stuff, so he coloured a crayon yellow with his yellow crayon.

We talked about peanuts and George Washington Carver for Rebecca's school time today, and one of the things we were supposed to do is make peanut butter dough (like playdough) to play with. It's a great idea, especially with Elias involved, because he believes in eating regular playdough. However, we are a peanut free home! We have a peanut allergy!! So, we used sunbutter in place of the peanut butter. As it turns out, sunbutter must be slightly drier than peanut butter, because I had to add extra liquid. We had sunbutter crumble instead of dough! So, a tablespoon of orange juice later, it was ready to go.

And then, when they were tired of playing with and eating their dough, we put it away and exchanged it for coloured noodles, which I had coloured last night. As it turns out, the recipe I was following wasn't nearly as detailed as a recipe I found later on, and I probably would have had much darker, brilliant colours, had I read the second recipe first. However, both children enjoyed it anyway!

The "brown" is actually purple.... it really didn't want to take.

Elias struggled a bit with getting the noodles onto his yarn, so he got a lot of help. He had fun trying, and then every time would look up and say, "Help!"

Rebecca was very focused on making hers work. She loved the activity, and I'm sure she will ask to do it again soon.

Rebecca made a "Noah's Ark" necklace

Elias was very pleased with the results of his (Mummy's) hard work! :)

We also read a number of books which we brought home from the library this morning, and watched the Veggie Tales movie Where is God when I'm S-s-s-s-s-s-scared... and watched a portion of March of the Penguins, because Rebecca wanted a penguin movie to watch.

She WHAT???

I spent the weekend making Rebecca some play dresses. The ones behind her in the picture are a little longer than knee length, the one she's wearing is longer than I was intending, but she likes its length anyway. :)

And, this afternoon, Rebecca came up behind me with a little handful of hair, and said, "Look, Mummy, I cut my hair!" And that's when Justin and I both, in unison, said, "WHAT?????" At least there really isn't much evidence she did it (THANK GOODNESS!!!). Her bangs are slightly shorter than they used to be on one side, but not even so short that it will be particularly noticeable. At least I don't think it is.

The short hair at the side there is what she trimmed off

We have yet again insisted that she is not allowed to cut her own, or anyone else's hair without express permission from us and the other person. Hopefully she'll listen! 

I'm Posting!

I have neglected the blog quite long enough, I think, so while I listen to the thunder BLASTING around here, I figure I'll type something up. I have some pictures I took of the kids today as well, so thought I might share them too. :)

We have had a busy year! Rebecca is nearly finished her Nursery for 3's curriculum, and Elias is becoming more and more insistent that he needs to have something to do as well, so I ordered the ABeka materials for him to do as well. I am starting to work on getting organized to start K4 with Rebecca in August (yes, I know it is early to work on this, but things are busy around here! It could take me that long to get it done!

Rebecca has been attending AWANA: Puggles all year, which Elias will be starting in the fall. Rebecca will move up to Cubbies in the fall. Funnily enough, she already knows a number of the verses they will be learning in her Cubbies group next year. I guess that means we're being successful when it comes to her Bible memory!

Elias is starting to talk more and more, he has been putting two and three words together on a regular basis, and is starting to communicate his needs and his upsets with us rather than just crying and whining at us. He loves to play outside in the sand and the dirt (and thinks he's helping me in the garden, unfortunately he isn't quite as observant as I would like when it comes to weeding, and we often lose real plants along with weeds!), and helps me around the house as much as he can. He even helped me make our fruit salad for breakfast this morning. :) 

Anyway, some pictures from today. Rebecca asked me to please take some pictures, so I grabbed my camera and these were the result... and then I realized I hadn't removed pictures from the camera card since before Christmas. Oops!!!!

This was Elias' "CHEESE!" face!

And, the newest activity for Rebecca is, we got her involved in Gymnastics, thanks to Granny! She loves to flip, roll, climb, swing, you name it, and so this seemed like a perfect idea! So, here is a little set of pictures showing her doing a front flip!

I'm thinking formation isn't something they focus on at 3 years old .

I love the look of glee on her face!
She really enjoys her  "Nastics" as she calls it.