We love Fridays!

Here is a picture of Noah's class during Fine Arts time.  This is our third of six weeks studying ancient artists during Fine Arts  (don't tell anyone, but I'm SO glad tin whistle for Fine Arts is over! ;)  ).  Today's artist was Fra Angelico.  His work was often biblical scenes where the people were embellished with golden halos.  For our class today, we painted crosses with gold halos around them.  The kids did a great job!

Next, I wanted to share videos of Eli & Noah's presentations.  They get to do little presentations every week with our homeschool group.  They've gotten so good at it!  I've only got to watch Eli twice, so I was very excited to video him today.  You can't hear him very well, but I still wanted to share because I just love my boys and I'm so proud of them!!  Thank you, Jesus, for letting me be a mom!!!!!

click here to see Eli's presentation

click here to see Noah's presentation

Zeke's favorite hobby- climbing inside of things

My silly boy!

 

A look into our week

Right before Christmas break ended, we got hit with a nasty virus that circled through three of the boys and is now finally, finally gone!  Now that everyone is healthy, we're back in our regular groove this week.  In celebration of my mom's birthday today, I thought I'd share some pics from our "back to normal week". 

 Happy Birthday, Mom!!!

Zekey out for a winter walk

Daddy & Zeke all tuckered out. 

Noah working on his numbers/counting.

Math is Eli's favorite part of school.

Noah has made some really cool things with his mini Leggo's lately.

Noah doing a reading game.

Siah learning his letters.

Cute face!

Quiet Time- looking at books.

Palydough project showing parts of the earth- core, mantle, crust.

Zekey likes to crawl inside of things.  Toilets, laundry baskets, puzzle boxes, desk drawers, diaper boxes, etc.

Cute boys in cute jammies.

Zekey and his crazy hair enjoying Story Time at the library.

Siah being a boy.  (This happens to be one of my favorite things about little boys!)

Eli made Mr. Gallon Man (with Mommy's help).

Giving Gratitude to God

I'm a couple weeks late on this ... again.  Ooops.  Okay, well this is what I'm thankful for:

• • Sweet worship this morning.
  • That His love never changes.
  • That He works all things together for my good.
  • That He knows all the details of my life and has them planned out for me to walk in.
  • A pastor who feeds us MEAT every Sunday.
  • Precious friends to live life with.
  • Fun visits over Christmas break.
  • Christmas traditions.
  • The GREATEST Christmas gift.
  • Smiling & excited little boys Christmas morning.   
  • Homeschooling.
  • A break from homeschooling.
  • Organization. 
  • Husbands new job of kitchen duty.  (Hip, Hip, Hooray!!!)
  • Handyman husband.
  • Sleeping in.
  • Pausing to watch and giggle over Zeke's speed crawling down the hallway.
  • Laughter at the dinner table.
  • Little boy cuddles.
  • A clean and vacuumed van!
  • Prayer.
  • Bills paid and money left over!
  • Scrabble with Nona.
  • Games with my boys.
  • Peek-a-boo with Zeke.
  • Heat and warm blankets!
  • Beautiful, clear blue winter sky.
  • Crossing things off my "To Do List".
  •  Good report after Grandma's surgery.
  • Living in a great place to raise a family.
  • That we had a wonderful year with our precious 4th boy, Jonah Zeke Oelkers!