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Posted by Unknown | | Posted On Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 5:26 PM
How do plants make sugar?
How does a spider make a web?
How does water get down from the water tower?
How do you make a book?
How do band aids give your skin back?
What if a tree only had one leaf?
Eli is a curious fellow. He asks a lot of questions and I kindly answer each one of them with an answer, in lots of detail because I know he really wants to know how.
Eli is also an artist. He has very good fine motor skills for being four. He draws robots, people, Batman, Bakugans, lots of things and it actually looks like the item he wants to draw. I am impressed with his artistry. Yesterday with stickers that he had he created our family. I am the one with a lot of hair.
He is also learning to read and is almost to lesson 30 in his "homework" book.
I read this Home Life article, March 2010 edition the other day about a young girl who went to Uganda to help in an orphanage once she graduated from High School. She was 18, and became a foster mom to 13 orphans. She decided then that she wanted to be a missionary.
I often wonder what my children will do when they choose a career path down the road. My prayer lately, due to this article that I read, is to pray that God would give me wisdom and insight to the things that my children love and are passionate about. So that I may teach them in a way that glorifies God. I have been asking God to help me see the big picture for them. Most of all, I hope that my children will live and work in a path of life that pleases the Lord like this young lady in Uganda has done. Ephesians 5:10, "Find out what pleases the Lord."
I recently read a girls blog that sounds like the one you read about in the mag. was it all girls she adopted?
I am LOVING the "teach your child to read" book! Elliot is doing amazing and it makes SO MUCH SENSE! I'm super excited about what the next 97 days bring us. :-) We just started!
Great! It is super easy to do. Eli loves doing his homework. Hezekiah enjoyed it too and always asked to do his work. It is fun to actually teach your child something and I think it is super cool to be the one to teach them to read.
yah, I think I'm super excited to be the one that teaches her! It's exciting. Everyday she asks, "Is it time to do my reading lesson now?" and then when it's time for the writing-she just keeps going and going.
Answering questions like Eli asks will keep you on your toes - although you probably know the answers.
And I have been challenged by that lately - to help our kids to dream big dreams and to not limit them when they have these bold ideas - even if they are young.
God sure loves to answer prayers like the ones you are praying! What a special boy. I think watching God unfold and bloom the little "buds" he has put in our homes is one of the biggest joys in the world! You're a great mom!