Actual conversation I just had with my four year old:
Me: "Please come Heidi."
Heidi: "Um... I can't right now"
Me: "Why not?"
Heidi: "I just stepped in the toilet"
Me: "WHY did you step in the toilet???"
Heidi: "Um...well... because I didn't know where I was walking."
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
She Can Sew!
I started her with a blunt needle on plastic canvas.
Then advanced to a blunt needle and burlap.
And just last week, we pulled out the real needle and felt.
We're working on making 25 little stockings for an advent calendar. I'm hoping we'll get them all done in time for December. With Heidi's help I'm thinking we just might.
Then advanced to a blunt needle and burlap.
And just last week, we pulled out the real needle and felt.
We're working on making 25 little stockings for an advent calendar. I'm hoping we'll get them all done in time for December. With Heidi's help I'm thinking we just might.Saturday, October 16, 2010
Future Designer?
While I was sewing this week, Heidi sat down and started designing patterns for me to sew.
She spent lots of time getting them just so.
She even gave them names, such as the "etehobi gown" and the "beauty gown".
And designed a special one for Aunt Summer.
How fun to have her interested in the things that interest me!
She spent lots of time getting them just so.
She even gave them names, such as the "etehobi gown" and the "beauty gown".
And designed a special one for Aunt Summer.
How fun to have her interested in the things that interest me!
A Bit About Our "Schoolroom"
One of the benefits of living where we do is the ability to observe and appreciate God's creation right outside our door. It's a gift I'm already finding advantageous for homeschool. For instance, while on a walk a couple days ago, we found both fresh evidence of a visiting bear and this delightful deer skull.
Heidi, fascinated, couldn't take her eyes off it and had to question me about every little detail, the tongue, the teeth, the eyes, everything.
Believe it or not, the conversation ended like this:
"Momma, is there meat in deer?"
"Yes, there is."
"Ooh, yummy, I'd like to try some sometime."
Not exactly my thought upon seeing a decaying skull.
On another note, it humors me how she can be so oblivious and observant at the same time. While running through the woods she ran smack into a tree (sadly she does this often as she's generally more interested in the world around her than in looking where she is going). Rubbing her head, she stepped back and proclaimed, "Oh, this is an OAK tree". Silly girl, doesn't see the tree, but once she hits it, knows what kind it is!
Heidi, fascinated, couldn't take her eyes off it and had to question me about every little detail, the tongue, the teeth, the eyes, everything.Believe it or not, the conversation ended like this:
"Momma, is there meat in deer?"
"Yes, there is."
"Ooh, yummy, I'd like to try some sometime."
Not exactly my thought upon seeing a decaying skull.
On another note, it humors me how she can be so oblivious and observant at the same time. While running through the woods she ran smack into a tree (sadly she does this often as she's generally more interested in the world around her than in looking where she is going). Rubbing her head, she stepped back and proclaimed, "Oh, this is an OAK tree". Silly girl, doesn't see the tree, but once she hits it, knows what kind it is!
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