Innocent Fun

Every remember when you were little making snakes out of straw paper.  Well meme has started this tradition with each of my children.  Everytime Ella is around meme and we have straws, she has to make a snake.  Last night when we were eating out, the snake had to be done. 

She is dripping water from the straw to make the snake grow.

Here Jeff is trying to help.  The snake, I think, has grown all it can grow.  The fun with children.

On another note, our family has had the best time watching the 2010 Winter Olympic Games

The biggest game in the olympics is coming up tomorrow. 

Half of us are pulling for these guys.

and half of us are pulling for these guys.

It is going to be a fun time at our house tomorrow around 3:00.

GO U S A

We are hoping for another miracles on ice.

Co-op and Ella's new thing

Well Thursdays are co-op days.  We have such a great time.  We are so blessed to be apart of a group of families that are truly seeking and teaching the Word of God.  We do Walk Thru the Bible, Science, YWAM Books, and then Worldview.  Mrs. Carmen truly teaches our children the message of the BIBLE:  I Love You and he wants to show off.  I leave co-op refreshed and renewed.  We have begun such a journey that is truly bringing our family together in such a way that is indescribable.    It is amazing when God calls us to do something and we walk on faith the blessings that will flow.  That is the story of our homeschool journey.  Some points that really are eye opening.
1.  God doesn't call us to do easy things - Homeschooling is not easy
2.  God calls us to serve - by homeschooling each child learns to serve their family
3.  God calls us to focus on him - Homeschooling allows us to choose the curriculum so we have Bible as a 
                                                   class
4.  God wants to show off - Homeschooling allows us to slow down and noticed his creation
Thanks for the grace if we don't get something right but for the faith to jump out of the boat.

So on to Ella  . . . her new thing
Cutting paper into a thousand of tiny pieces, color the piece with maker, and then cover the entire piece of paper with tape.  She pulls off a big piece of tape and sticks it to the table.  Then she takes the scissors and cuts little pieces of tape to cover the paper.  So here is what my house looks likes.

She has tape on the breathing machine.

The paper that has been cut even in the brown chair.

Her new best friend.  She has almost used up a brand new roll.

She then gives them to everyone in the family as Valentine's Cards.  Sweet

The New Toy

Well I told you that Seth has been saving his money for awhile.  He wanted this toy last year but we thought he was too young and wasn't ready.  Jeff and I still have our reservations but hopefully it is one of those learning experiences.  He is soo excited.   He has counted and counted and counted his money.  I admire a child that is 8 years old to save their money until they have $210.00.  Things he did to save.  He took his birthday and Christmas money (there is advantages to having a birthday right at Christmas), chore money, did extra chores, asked me to pack his supper for the ice rink so he would not have to buy pizza, and said "no" to other things he wanted that were little things.  So Seth's new toy is an Ipod touch.

He is super duper excited.  He had a clock that would play an ipod but no ipod to play.  Well now he wakes up to music.  He is very responsible.  I am very proud of this young man and his money sense.  (Like his dad)

I think I am going to start saving my money.  The ipod touch is way cool.  Seth even has Garrett motivated to save his money now.

The Vaccum Warrior

This is Seth doing his chore which is to vaccum the bathroom floors.  As I was waiting for all the pictures to load, I thinking about several things:

1.  Joy in doing work

2.  Serving others can be fun

3.  Innocents of a child

4.  Full of life

5.  Take a moment to enjoy the silliness

6.  Imagination is priceless

7.  Stop to capture the times we forget

8.  Take time to focus on each child individually

9.  God is so good

10.  I love this kid

Thank God for sending me a short devotion through these silly, crazy pictures of my child.  God trys to get our attention and teach us so much, we just don't GET IT sometimes.  Thank goodness for his grace.  (By the way, Seth was dressed like this all day.  He had some costume that he was going for as he played all day.)

Past week

My life has been a buzzzz lately.  For some reason I can't get things on a good routine.  Both boys have been to the doctor which throws the day's schedules, the Olympics are on so I don't want to post at night, I have two SPCC classes going right now, I have a ton of church things going on right now and well that is all of my excuses.  So on to last week.

This is how Garrett unloads the dishwasher which is one of his chores.  I was working on the computer right in front of him and his first step is to open all the cabinets.  I started laughing.  (How crazy to show everyone the inside of my cabinets.  Oh well.)

Pete and Repeat had on their Mario shirts. 

This is Garrett working on his game board for his Korea research paper he had just finished.

This is Ella playing her new game she calls "Beautiful Girl".  She is painting her own fingernails because MeMe lets her do it.

Seth is counting his money to see if he has enough to make his big purchase.  I will share tomorrow what he bought.

I at least took pictures just never made it to the blog.