Today is Thursday…Dec 9 2010
We started with our Advent tree:
And read some stories while I nursed Galoot:
Then we had friends over. The boys played for a while, and I mustered up some courage and decided to do school while we had friends. Actually, it was almost easier with an extra kid…kind of like how making supper for one or two people feels a little pointless, while making supper for a family is satisfying, and making supper for a crowd is a fun and rewarding challenge.
Or is that just me?
We had snowman pudding sculptures decorated with trail-mix for snacks
Read, “The Mitten”
Traced our hands and cut out two mittens—one regular sized and one extra large from being stretched out by all the animals ;). Then snow-white cotton balls were glued on top, and we attached a string to connect them;
After lunch, Giant wanted to know how to say: “snow”, “snowman”, and “monkey”, in Russian. So we looked the words up on a great site
and added them to our Russian word wall:
Ettin was colouring while we did this:
I love these swirls. They seem so peaceful.
Then the boys watched movies, until I convinced them to go outside and play in the last little bit of sunshine left of the day:
We all bundled up.
Galoot:
Giant:
And Ettin:
We played for a bit.
Until I was frozen and convinced them to go inside and watch movies.