Today is…Monday Apr 18 2011
We had a rather noisy musical start to our day, with homemade drums:
Galoot tried very seriously to figure out how the whistle thingy works:
And the boys played along to some songs I sang while nursing Galoot (who was a little distracted, for some reason):
Then we looked at our Gospel lesson. We talked about how something dead, like a leaf, can’t become green and living again. However, because Christ died for us, and because He was resurrected we can live again:
Then we worked on mass cookie dough production.
Giant wrote up recipes, noting the proper spelling for some of the ingredients in the recipe book. We made dough for 24 doz cookies (chocolate candy swirl, peanut butter, and oatmeal raisin—*my fav*) packaged up and in the freezer.
Of course my tasters were there to help:
Then they left to go play trains and trucks:
After cookie dough making, Giant wanted to play the “red carpet game” — refering to a gospel lesson about Jesus’s triumphant ride into Jerusalem where people honoured Him by putting down the clothing and palm leaves.
Not wanting to make light of the scriptures, I suggested we could pretend he was a King with a red carpet:
Which turned into a great character lesson about what a good King needs to do to help those he leads be happy (like not shoving your brothers off the carpet 😉 ):
And of course we played outside! In the snow! In the middle of April! Because, who wouldn’t want to do that?!
…Oh BOY!!! (oh, I miss my dirt. It was fun playing with the boys, though)
After little ones were napping, Giant and I did some building!
I finally got to one of the projects I wanted to do from Ana White’s site:
A chair!
Which turned out pretty good considering I was using a Candyland gameboard for my “square”…
Giant and Ettin agreed to share it (I do hope to get a couple more built):
And even Galoot thinks it’s just the right height:
Oh, and what happens when Giant and I are building, and Ettin wakes up a little sooner than expected?
Not to worry, the boy takes care of himself: I came up to find him with 10 cookies and an ipod, content to have a little treat time while we were downstairs working:
Love that kid!