Valentine's Day treats!

I was asked to send a Valentine snack with Cade to school today. Last night after worship we came home and made a couple of batches of heart shaped rice krispie treats. Cade asked if he could wear my apron and wanted to do everything by himself. He did a great job with very little help from me. He was proud of himself saying, "that's the first thing I've ever "baked" all by myself". I was very proud of the job he did as well.

Going to Heaven in shorts!

This was a conversation that took place at Rah Rah's house on Sunday between Cade (almost 7) and Chance (5 years old).....I'm reposting this from a post she put on Facebook! Some of the things Chance said were things he was repeating that he had heard Chad say that morning while looking out at the birds!

Today at lunch my two oldest grandsons spontaneously began some interesting, hilarious, and thought-provoking comments about things to come. The 5-year-old said, "You should have seen the huge flock of blackbirds in our yard this morning. Looked like someone in Heaven was sprinkling pepper. Maybe Grandma [great-grandmother] was sprinkling pepper." The 7-year-old said, "I bet she's getting to spend a lot of time with Moses and Noah and all those people in the Bible who died. It will probably take her a year to talk to all those people! I wonder what everybody wears in Heaven. I hope Jesus comes when I'm wearing short sleeves and shorts so I can wear short sleeves and shorts forever." Then he said, "Maybe Jesus will come tomorrow." The 5-year-old spoke up and said, "He can't come tomorrow! It's Valentine's Day!" Granted, they don't have a full understanding about Heaven and Jesus' return -- but who does? We smiled, even laughed, at their comments. But the simplicity of their outlook on eternity, their fearless confidence in God's promised home for the faithful, reminded me that I need to have that same simplistic, confident, hopeful look toward an eternity with my God. Thank you, Lord, for precious little ones who teach me so much!

Chance now has his very own......

LIBRARY CARD!!!!

Turning 5 is a big deal for several reasons! One of those is that you can get your very own library card. Today was the big day for Chance. I now have 2 boys with their own library card. They are growing up so fast!!

filling out the form (his name) to get his card.


Chance with the librarian Mrs. Nancy


The first books checked out with Chance's new card

W crafts

We finished up the letter W this week. The kids made whales which turned out really cute I thought.

Chance adding the final smile to his whale!

Cooper's "smile" lately is cracking me up! He looks a little like he's in pain...okay so maybe in a lot of pain! Ha! I love it!

Today instead of making a craft we made W letter cookies for snack time. We also made about a dozen heart cookies being that it's February and that means Valentine's Day is coming soon. We had lots of sugar cookie dough so we needed to make something bigger than just letters!

Out with Cade!

Last night Cade and I headed out by ourselves to watch the Lady Lions and Lions play ball. We enjoyed the night out with just the two of us because Chad and the other 2 boys wanted to stay home! It was kinda nice getting to take just Cade. With him being in school I rarely get to do things with just him! Both teams won their games (although we only got to watch the first half of the boys game) so that made it an extra great outing!

Craft time

I haven't posted any of our letter crafts over the past few weeks. I actually haven't taken pictures of many of them either but here is a little of what the kids have done. Keeping a house full of kids most every day can be a challenge....especially during the winter months when we can't get outside as much! I don't want the kids getting bored here at the house! They enjoy doing crafts and having "school" time and it gives them something else to do other than just play....which is good too.... but I like to do crafts!!! :-) I think they do too!

Letter K- making kangaroos



Letter D- made doctor bags, handprint dogs, and ate dino sandwiches!






Letter Z- made zebras



Letter W- we are actually on this letter now so I may have more to post soon! The kids made watermelons for their first W craft!

Happy 100th Day of school

Cade had his 100th day of school celebration today. They were supposed to celebrate a couple weeks back but because of snow days it kept getting pushed back. He's already half way through his first grade year. In just 6 months he'll be starting 2nd gade. That's hard to believe!

Here was his 100th day project! Each kid had to make something to show 100....we used 100 whale crackers to make a whale!



Wearing his 100th day crown and his necklace that shows 100. His necklace actually shows 100 counting by 5,s! They could choose how to show 100 and that's the way he chose to show it!