Today is…Thursday Oct 21, 2010
Giant took on the roll of teacher this morning.
He and Ettin had found our little chalkboards, and he decided to teach Ettin how to draw a dog.
First a head, then a body, and then legs. Oh, and eyes and nose.
Ettin listen and mimicked:
and came up with this:
which, I see now as I post it up here, would look like a bunch of scribbles to anyone who didn’t actually watch Ettin drawing this with Giant.
So let me ‘splain: The circly thing on the right is the head, the liney/boxey thing on the left is the body. Some of those shorter lines are legs. And the dots are enthusiastically drawn eyes.
I love sharing these special moments! Any scribbles Ettin brings to me in the future will now carry a bit more weight to them because of what I watched today.
We started our morning learning time.
We prayed.
We looked at our picture:
“Lehi’s Family Leaving Jerusalem”
Have I mentioned how much I love using the GAK (Gospel Art Kit) resources? I can read the story off the back of the picture, so any brain power that would have been used up trying to remember and recount a story is left over for application and discussion.
Very handy for when most of my brain power is being used just trying to wrangle three little boys!
We looked at our morning message:
I nursed Galoot and read stories:
And then they boys busied themselves while I did dishes and finished tidying up.
Not that one ever really finishes tidying up with three little boys in the home, especially when they are finding things to keep them busy, but I like to pretend to make an effort.
For example, while I was tidying up, the boys were cutting things.
Boxes, papers, etc. All over my living room and dining room.
Ettin sat in his chair at the table and said, “‘hut, ‘hut, ‘hut diggy mommy” [cut, cut, cut diggers mommy] as he worked on this:
This boy LOVES trucks and all manner of “Diggers,” or heavy machinery.
We strolled down to Stay and Play, where the boys played and played. We even did a messy play where we made monsters by decorating floam, which we took home to play with afterward:
Kind of cute, actually.
After lunch, I really wanted to do a craft with Giant. Lately it seems I have my own project I want to do and so working with Giant is put off until later. Although today was no different for me (I wanted to make some thank-you cookies for my Hubby’s friends who were coming to help us with our house), I knew I needed to work with Giant.
So I made some cookie dough:
and then put. it. aside. :
So I could work with my first born son.
On a Hallowe’en craft.
(He REALLY wanted to do some painting while I was making dough. I tried to get him to wait. “That’s okay mommy. I’ll just pretend to paint:
Its cute and sad all at the same time.)
With mommy finally ready for some craft time, we looked at one of the Hallowe’en craft books I got from the library:
And got busy.
We coloured pumpkins and cut them out:
We cut out green strips for arms and legs (Galoot was helping):
Folded them up:
Taped on their arms and legs. Drew faces.
Spilled water all over the table:
“That’s right mom, ‘Crud,’ ” agreed Giant. Thanks Giant, though that’s not exactly what I said.
Ta dah?
Then for the rest of the afternoon the boys and I worked on baking/eating cookies until the work party came.
(ps, the work party was great, accomplishing in one night what probably would have taken my Hubby and I 2-3 years to finish on our own. We are kind of slow.)
(pps, I think the boys ate 20 cookies each. And I never fed them supper. Just so you know.)