Today is…Wednesday Mar 2 2011
We started our day with a prayer and scripture lesson. Another “fruit” lesson, this one discussed that you can know what kind of tree is growing by the type of fruit that grown on it. And, similarly, we can tell what type of person someone is by their “fruit”—the stuff they do and say. And that if we want, we can change our hearts and minds to bring forth good “fruit.”
The boys liked the fruit.
Admittedly, I’m often fairly doubtful the boys even listen—especially as their biggest focus at this lesson seemed to be on whether they could please eat the fruit now. But a couple of times later in the day when there was contention, Giant told me he decided to “change his mind” from a mean mind to a nicer one, and then he worked much more pleasantly with his little brothers. When I complimented this change, he said something like, “Yeah, and that means that this place would be a good place for Jesus to be with us.”
It is amazing to watch these boys learn!
After gym I tried to sneak away and do some baking on my own, telling myself the boys would be well occupied with books and toys.
Ha!
I have two boys who just love helping in the kitchen.
Which meant I had to refocus myself. I think some mothers are quite blessed with the talent of adaptability. I’d say I’m fairly adaptable, but if I’m planning and looking forward to doing something one way (like baking on my own) and another way is needed (like working with two little boys on a time critical project), I have to take a few minutes of quiet time just to readjust. Without yelling too much…hopefully.
Thankfully, I made room for my boys. We got good and floury:
Ettin snuck away later to play trains on his own,
And Galoot played with toys, but was mostly sad momma wasn’t holding him.
After naps, Giant and I worked on the message:
I left him alone to fill in the weather whilst I took a potty break of my own.
When I came back, I found this:
Which needs a cyrillic keyboard to type out properly.
Cool eh?
Giant copied one of the Russian words from our wall onto the board.
I think he was aiming for “cold,” and chose kashka (cat) because it had the k’s. Good Job little boy!!
Then we looked at some rhyming “at” words,
And read a couple of books:
We also worked on drawing, and Giant even paid some attention to the instructions:
Cool castle! (Yes, of course I drew one too.)