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Caelum: "Mommy, Mommy! I found my FAVORITE thing in the world!! I wanna give it to Jesus!"
Me: "That's very thoughtful of you. What us it?"
Caelum: "It's a VERY awesome Lego motorcycle! Don't you think Jesus would love it?! I would!"

Caelum is driving his trains around the track, singing his little heart out to the Sound of Music: "So long! Farewell! The Caesar says good-byeee!"

Brenner at worship: "Mommy, remember when God planted the sun? And it was very bright? ......That was amazing."

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The Zoo

Just a few pics from our recent trip to the zoo. Obviously, you can tell which animals we are our favorites. :)

Various School Activities

Just to chronicle, these are a few random photos from some of our school-day experiences. We have a lot of fun, I just don't always remember to actually take pictures, but here are some of our 1st grade memories so far:

Outdoor Math. The weather has been so tremendous that we have wanted to spend as much time as possible outside before it gets cold for good! So we decided to have math with sticks and stones and acorns!

Science Experiment: What would you look like without bones? Well, according to this floppy clay version, you wouldn't be able to do much! And you would have a flat head!

And now, you get to see the clay version with bones! We inserted toothpicks to simulate how our bones help us stand and move. Much better!

Still working on bones, this time we focused on the cranium. What would happen to your brain if you had no skull? And what about if you had no cerebral fluid in between your skull and your brain?

We placed the "brain" (egg) into its "skull" (Pyrex dish), and ran around the room. Well, our brain did stay in our head, but it broke all over the place! What was missing?

Cerebral fluid! Next, we added "cerebral fluid" (water) around our "brain" inside our "skull." Then ran around the room again. Yay! Our "brain" is safe and sound!

Exercise! Just threw this in because I thought it was so stinkin' cute to watch Brenner doing lunges! :)

Reading time! Aile had just finished her turn to read a page....

Another experiment: Why did God give us 5 fingers? Why not just 3? Or 4? Well, we decided to find out. With her newly constructed 3 fingers and a thumb, Aile made her bed, put away her laundry, and brushed her hair and teeth. Now we understand a little bit better just how smart our God is! This was challenging! Aile says that making her bed was the easiest of the tasks--it used mostly gross motor skills. Brushing her teeth was the most challenging--you need more fine motor skills for that!