My adventures as a mom, a theologian's wife, and an ex-pat across the pond
Since infancy, Luke has had some pretty amazing scowls and grimaces. He is a delightful little boy, but his grumpiness cracks us up {most of the time}. Here is a sampling from Christmas morning. He wasn’t even in a bad mood- Josh caught these candidly.
My mom, the kids, and I headed out to see the Christmas lights get turned on in city centre- there are rows of them strung between the two sides of the street and tonight was the night they lit them up, complete with a fairly bizarre parade {including snow plows and random dancing figures, both religious and not at all}. Sweet Lizzie girl was such a trooper- she rode in my sling and drained a bottle while we were walking! She is such a good baby!
The pictures are really dark and not great from poor lighting, etc, but here they are:
My sister-in-law, Becky, asked me to get a picture of our 3 kids together. This is the best I could do…as well as a few others from today. :)
We celebrated an early Christmas with my mom last weekend. She brought all of us some really fun gifts- new clothes, shoes, jewelry, games, toys, etc. It was fun to watch the kids open their gifts and enjoy them so much. Sweet Lizzie nursed and slept the entire time, but she got a new winter coat and a cozy winter suit, too. Even Aunt Becky and Uncle Billy sent gifts for the kids, which was such a fun surprise.
Much like her father, Rebekah is not a natural memorizer. She is excellent at concepts, but struggles with the details {also like Josh}. In the long run, these will be great strengths, but right now, it means she is having a little trouble learning her sight words for P1. The idea is for her to simply recognize and read these words by sight. However, for Rebekah, the best method is to teach them to her by sounding them out, making some sense of them. Once we’ve done that for a while, we drill her with flash cards, or alternatively, with way cooler games like the chocolate chip game! Inspired by Great Kate, I made laminated words for her and laid them out on the floor {Christy found clear contact paper at Poundland for, you guessed it, a pound, and I used that to “laminate”}. She got to put a chocolate chip on each one. Then, in whatever order she wanted, she read the words and got to eat the chips when she got them right. Luke quickly realized that there were a lot of chocolate chips to be had in this game. Bless his heart, he grabbed the Leap Frog flashcards for capital letters and started laying them out…so, I was greatly surprised to find that he knew almost all of them!!! Man, what my kids will do for chocolate chips!!
When he realized how well Rebekah was doing with the game, Josh took it up a notch by timing her, which was a fun variation for all. ;) Rebekah has all her capitals down pat, so she runs the chocolate chip game for Luke if I can’t, which is so cool to see/watch!
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