Big girl

Look who is growing up!

Our Telie

Telia (we sometimes call her Telie) has been so much fun lately.  She is super happy and starting to communicate in the cutest ways.  She likes to say "fuff fuff" when we ask her what a dog says and she says "peez B" when we tell her to say "please Ruby".  Doesn't get much cuter.  Here are some pics that I have taken with my phone lately.  Enjoy!

Loves black beans just like the rest of us

Messy Spaghetti

Lovin on her baby

Checking out her Mo Willems book "Today I Will Fly"

Little feet

An Elephant is Faithful 100%

This week we read "Horton Hatches An Egg" by Dr Seuss.  

We had a nice chat about what it means to be faithful (Horton is faithful to sitting on the egg in the book)

Ruby colored this picture of Horton from Seussville.

Thanks to suggestions from Homeschool Share I boiled an egg and let Ruby take it apart.  She cracked it and we talked about the outer layer, the inner layer, the egg white and the egg yolk.  She really like being able to break it all up and peel it by herself.  She actually liked it too and ate 2.5 eggs all by herself!  Telia didn't care for it though.

If you haven't checked out the Seussville website then you should.  We watched some clips from lots of Dr. Seuss cartoons including some on Horton.

We also watched Jim Henson's Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss on Netflix!

Music to my ears

Tonight this little girl sang a sweet song to her sister that went something like this:

Don't cry, God is with us
But we don't see Him usually
If we love Jesus when we die we will see Him
And we will see Ezekiel and be best friends


Brought a smile to Brian and I

His and Hers

If you give...

This week we read the book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Numeroff and Illustrated by Felicia Bond.
I have no idea how to make a link with this picture of the cover of the book but I got it from www.amazon.com

This week we read the book and since we read it often I paused and let Ruby finish parts of the story. We also made up a story about Ruby. I started with "If you give Ruby a...." She decided to go with the cookie theme but we had a little more fun with it and didn't follow the original story. I got those ideas from our Harper Collins "Treasury Picture Book"

We also made some oatmeal cookies from this cookbook that I have.


I put too much flour in the cookies therefore Ruby kept referring to them as muffins :)


Ruby and Brian enjoying their cookies...yes, he is a tough guy



This is what Telia does while we are baking...she runs around the kitchen snacking on crackers


Mmmm

Happy Anniversary

When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
C.S. Lewis

5 Years

Photo taken by The Winters