"Snacktime Prayer"

(or, "Why I'm Glad I Stay Home with My Kids")

I'm in the family room and Nate and Kate are having a snack in the kitchen. I overhear Nate say, “Oh we forgot to pray.” Kate replies, “Yeah!” and then he leads them in a fine rendition of the Lord’s prayer with Kate chiming in on about 2/3 of the words. After the "Amen" Nate commends her, "Kate, you know the Lord's Prayer." "Yeah!" she chirps, and they go on eating their trail mix.

And a big thank you to faithful Miss Cortney for an excellent lesson on the Lord's Prayer yesterday in the kindergarten Sunday school class.

Written and Illustrated by...

Meg and Nate spent most of the day writing books. Actually Nate has all his pictures done but no text yet. I labeled a few things in the picture below to help you out. The title is The Story of Dinosaurs.

This is the first page of Meg's book The Story of the Monkeys. The text reads, "Two little monkeys swinging on a hammock. The two little monkeys had lots of fun. The two little monkeys were best friends."

Nate has started illustrations on his second book; it's about dragons. Meg is quite prolific: she has also written a book about ballerinas and has finished the illustrations on a book about Santa Claus and started a book about a ballerina and a dragon (all this afternoon.)

Projects

Purse: designed and created by Meg

House for Little Puppy: designed and created by Nate
(with an emphasis on cutting and taping)

Tupperware: designed (?) and created by Caleb

Father/Daughter Dance

Meg's school has a dance every year for girls and their dads.
She was very excited to go in her "spinny" new dress and had a great time with her Daddy!

Poor Cinderella