New skills

Today Ammo learned how to ride her bike! 

She has never successfully pedalled even a tricycle before this. 

It may not seem like much,

but for us it's a major breakthrough!

We're so proud of you!

Callouses

Miss B has been obsessed with callouses lately.  Triggered by something she read in a Beverly Cleary book-- Ramona comparing callouses with classmates?--Miss Be was immediately convinced that her soft hands simply wouldn't do.  She has been spending lots of time on the monkey bars in order to acheive these coveted crusts, and she's pretty pleased with them.  Oh, and in her pursuit, she's gotten pretty good at the bars, too.

Must be Spring!

She gets it

Yesterday after reading Psalm 8 to the kiddos, Dave was talking about how amazing it is that God would condescend to care for us, provide for us, bless us.  Searching for a suitable way to illustrate the distance between God and us, he explained that it would be kind of like the President of the United States getting down in the dirt, finding a little ant, and taking great care to build the ant a castle, provide food for it, and protect it.  After thinking about this for a moment, Miss B said, "Actually, I think it would be more like the President of the United States getting down in the dirt and taking very good care of an scorpion that had stung him one hundred times." 

This Winter Rocks

Last week:

 This week:

  

  

  

This winter rocks.

Snow Man!

Mercury rising...

When mercury levels pass 60 in January, we...

 put aside regular schoolwork for a "nature study day,"

 do lots and lots of winter yard work,

 collect an abandoned wasp's nest and a robin's nest for the kids to investigate,

and thank God for the warm respite

before the coming blizzard.