7 Years! WOW!

It is hard to believe that seven years have passed since Arthur and I welcomed Dacia Grace into our lives.  I am currently listening to Arthur recount her birth story.  It never ceases to amaze me and humble me.  God performed so many miracles that day.

Happy birthday to Arthur and to Dacia Grace!  I love being your wife and your mommy!  I am so blessed each and every day by each of you!

Science and the Library

We utilize our local library a ton.  It is a regular thing to find what seems to be 100’s of library items on our library shelves.  We are so thankful for our local library and the children’s librarians who help us find just about anything!

One of our favorite science series is the Let’s-Read-And-Find-Out About science series.  There are two levels that we have used:  one for Kindergarten and one for first and second grade.  While they are secular, I have found that they don’t deal a ton with evolution.  The ones that do have become a talking point for us about God and His design for the universe in contrast to man’s design for the universe.

Here are some of our favorites:

All pictures are from Amazon.

The Making of a Clay Pot

So for Week 1 we were supposed to make a clay pot.  We just now got around to doing it.  So here are some video clips for your viewing entertainment.

The first week of school we studied how the Bible was written by the original authors and how scrolls were made by papyrus and such.  They were stored in jars so here we are trying to make a jar.

Sorry the audio is not so good.  I don't know how to get it any louder.

I love her smile here.
She is loving school!

 

The finished product drying.

Nature Walk

 

Checking on the ant hill.

 

Spider web in the light.

       

Fall blooms.

First Levitations

Every month the grade school department of our church has a memory verse and a challenge memory verse.  Dacia Grace has memorized the monthly memory verses every month since moving up to the grade school class.  September marked her first month of attempting the challenge memory verse which was not really a memory verse per se.  The challenge was to memorize all 66 books of the Bible.  While she did not get all 66 done, she did get rewarded for her attempt and for making it all the way through Ecclesiastes.  Arthur and I were so proud of her.

In the process of learning them, we were working on the major prophets......

Isaiah.....


Jeremiah........


Levitations.....

Ezekiel


and

DANIEL!

Arthur and I had a good laugh at that one.  Levitations!  :)

Cupcake Decorating 101

After the cupcake decorating fiasco for Dacia Grace’s Half Birthday Celebration, I said I would never decorate another cupcake! 

Well…………

I was invited to a cupcake decorating class taught my an amazing lady from our church.  I had so much fun!

The first thing I learned was that my tools from the Half Birthday Party cupcake fiasco were BROKEN!  No wonder I could not decorate them at all!

We learned an easy, peasy way to fill the icing bags!  They practically fill themselves!  Without ME being covered in frosting!

Then we began decorating…….so much fun!

Here are some of the finished results.   I can’t wait to replace all my broken equipment!

Once home, Dacia Grace helped add the finishing touches of colored sugars and candy hearts.

   I decorated all of these myself!

By far my favorite one that I did. 

It was so easy once I was shown how!

AND……

Yes, they tasted as good if not better than they look!

First Grade School Pictures

So today was the first day of CBS.  We have taken a picture on our front steps every year since we started.  This year was no different EXCEPT that I will be using these shots for her official first day of First Grade shots.  She has grown up so much!

When did she group up?!

All ready for her first day in the Primary Class at CBS!

Showing her sassy side!