Days To Remember G's Blog

Officially at 9 a.m. this morning signs were made in our home.  It all started with the sign below.  "Boys No Girls."

Signs were posted on doors.

Eli created a sign, "Boys No Bears."  Wooo, now that is a relief.

Hezekiah posted a sign on Maggie's door too stating, "Girls No Boys."

Maggie Beth made her own sign, it says, "Girls allowed." 

Eli is also creating a map presently so Maggie Beth can get to Fairy Land.....pictures to be published later.

In the car the other day we were giving Page some good-bye kisses after we took

him his lunch.

Maggie Beth told Page, "Don't give away all my kisses!" 

He said, "I'm only giving away a couple, I got more for you!"

She gets that from us, we will say to her when she is giving kisses to one of us,

"Maggie Beth, are you giving all your kisses away?" 

She will say, "No, just a couple....I got more for you!" 

Today I got to go to Eli's Valentine Party at preschool.

He had a pretty busy day, the policeman came and brought a police dog.

He got to have a party with his class and the other 4's class.

And he and his classmates got to add Menthos to soda bottles and watch the carbonation rise. 

I guess before I got there they put some in a 2 liter and had a very big eruption of carbon. 

They were cute jumping away from their bottles!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Our family has been making Valentine's for each other and some friends.

Hezekiah to Eli, "You know if we were twins we would have the same ummm, ummm, (searching for word), ummm, (light bulb)....pants!"

Me to Hezekiah (we have been studying DNA this week....genes & we learned about twins)....."You mean genes?"   (TOO CUTE!) (pants....genes...jeans....get it??)

Hezekiah, "Oh, yeah, genes!" 

Eli to Hezekiah, "I wish we had been born at the same time."

Hezekiah to Eli, "Why?"

Eli, "Because we would be the same old." (age)

I love their conversations!

Today we had International Day at Homeschool fellowship. 

Hezekiah choose a couple weeks ago to do Italy so he could take pizza as a food.

Eli wanted to do a different country and since we had studied India with Mission India he choose to do India and make Chocolate Burfi.  (However, I had to make the chocolate burfi due to time constraints and its' need to cool down, so he helped cut and plate it). 

Above are the boys making the pizza.

Here are Maggie Beth and Eli plating the burfi.....my new favorite word according to Page.

I am sorry to say though, and apologize to the home school fellowshippers.......I thought that the burfi was not very tasty.  I left it up to Eli and Maggie's discretion and I really should have tried it, but they liked it, so I figured it must be alright.  I tried it and ummmm, I did not like it.  Sorry, India and chocolate burfi, you sounded fun, but I do not think I will ever make you again!

The boys and I printed pictures off the computer and glued them on their posters, they also did color pages for their project.  I think they enjoyed rubber cementing their pages onto their board.  I did have to help a little in arrangement of pictures, like put your foods all together I would suggest and put your buildings all together.....etc.  They did great.....we worked on it for a couple weekends, so it took us about 3 weeks to complete.

They even presented their little projects to the homeschool group today.  I was surprised, but they were able to tell them a little about their country using their foods, pictures, and color pages.  I am not sure if when I was 5 and 7, I would have gotten up in front of teenagers, older elementary kids, kids in general, and parents and present anything.  I told them I thought they were really brave, but they are also very silly, perhaps they will be a comedy routine later in life.  I think they like the attention.  

As you can see, Hezekiah has to be silly in any picture taken of him anymore.  Seriously? 

Today I learned a couple things about myself. 

I learned that after receiving a text from an old college friend, that I really have no idea how to send a text nor really text at all.  I sat in the car for 5 minutes at least trying to write a sentence or two with my 7 year old reading everything I wrote.  Then once I got to the end, I could not even figure out how to send it, so I gave up and just called her, that friend from college....

I also learned that it is always fun to visit a local bakery and I really should do it more often. 

Today I visited Sue Ann's in Indialantic to get some cupcakes for the friends we were seeing.  Let me just say I enjoyed my red velvet cupcake with cream cheese icing and Sue Ann's I will visit again.

Okay, so there are the 2 things I learned. 

Anyhow, today I got to see two old friends from my Cumberland days.  Kate and her husband Ryan.  Kate and I met playing soccer, she was really good at soccer and let's just say I tried......and Ryan was in some of my Biology classes......I remember we had to count bats out of the gray brick building and collect bugs to see what matched in the guano. 

Anyhow, I had the priviledge of watching these two kids fall in love.  Tee hee!  They are a really adorable couple and I am thankful that God made our paths cross at Cumberland so many years ago......like 18 years ago?  That is a bit crazy! So yeah were "old" friends but seriously it does not seem that long ago!  

So we got to meet them at the beach today, eat at Bizzarro's, and play at the park.  Above is a picture of our kids together.  They are just adorable. 

Thanks Kate and Ryan, it was great to see you guys! :)