Preschool

We started Preschool with Rebecca on Monday!

First day of preschool

He's looking so grown up!!

We went for a nature walk on Wednesday, and Rebecca found a "hand" sticking out of the ground! What a shriek came out of her! It was quite funny, but she wouldn't come close enough to take a good look at it... even though it was just a root. :)

Looking at a mushroom

We talked about Heaven being God's home, and how we have an address here where we live, and will eventually live with God in heaven.

Elias started Nursery school this week too, and we've been learning Jesus Loves Me. He took the camera from me trying to see what I was looking at when the camera flips around. He apparently decided it wasn't that interesting, as he gave it back to me. :)

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.