Elisha-isms

My three year old son is such a hoot. He is always making us laugh--definitely his father's son.:)

I just had to share some of his funny little Elisha-isms:

* Elisha has been known to refer to thrift stores as "Trash Can Wal-Marts". "Aunt Sarie look at this toy I got at the Trash Can Walmart!"

*I've heard Elisha call the keyboard on computers "letter taps".

* E: "I'm going to be Batman and you  can be Batman too!"

 Me: "I'm a girl, so can I be Batgirl?"

  E: "Oh! You can be Batman girl!"

*After Elisha finished his dinner one evening we noticed him beginning to sort of grunt. We asked him what he was doing. He replied, "I'm growing something". We asked him what he was growing. He answered, "I'm growing a baby sister".

*Elisha is convinced that there are eggs and seeds inside of him that makes him capable of growing a baby. 

*Elisha is kind of scared of the vacuum (a recent development) because one day I threatened to suck up his toys with the vacuum if he didn't clean them up. I sucked up one, little toy and now he FREAKS OUT almost every time I get the vacuum out- even if there are no toys on the floor.

*Elisha thinks that the courthouse in town is a castle.

*Elisha is the worst backseat driver. He tells me where he wants me to go, to speed up, slow down, stop and go. 

Creation Part 2, Adam and Eve and Cubbies

 Just wanted to share a little recap of our past couple of weeks!

 Part 2 of Creation: We wrapped up our study of creation last week. We  focused on days 5, 6 and 7. 

I found these animal things that grow when you stick them in cold water. Elisha enjoyed that project.

Elisha's worksheets for days 6 and 7.

The rest of the week we focused on Adam and Eve, the letter A and the number 2.

 

We have been using this DVD as  resource for learning about the beginning of Creation and the beginning of the Bible as well. It is made by the same people that made Veggie Tales. Some of the topics are a little over Elisha's head for now, but eventually I think he will start to grasp some more of the concepts.

We glued aluminum to the letter A for one of our letter activities.

This week was supposed to be a review week, but we spent most of the week doing free play and working on sight words and letter sounds instead. I watched Elisha put together a few three-letter words like MOP, FAN, MAN, TAP and a few others by helping him sound out the letters to figure out how to make the words. It was really cool to see my three year old be able to do that! Starfall.com has become a staple in our daily lessons!

Also, this week Elisha started AWANA and is in Cubbies! So far he loves it and is doing pretty good at memorizing his verses. I am really thankful for this program--for the spiritual aspect as well as the social!

Library Days

We've started going to the library at least twice a week. We go on Mondays to pick out our books of the week. Then we go on Wednesdays for Story Time in the morning. Even though this was our first week for Story time on Wednesday, we have been going on Mondays for the last few weeks. During this time the library has had a place where your kid can enter into a drawing for Finding Nemo in 3D movie theater tickets for the child and one adult as well as a Finding Nemo book. You get to enter your kid's name every time you visit the library. This morning before Story Time, the children's librarian called to inform me that Elisha had won the drawing!

Today, was our first Story Time at the library. The librarian read 

Little Pony. After the story was read, the kids got to do a craft 

project that ties in to the story.

Elisha gluing pony faces to his paper and coloring it.

Elisha loves visiting the library! I'm fortunate to have a kid that loves books. I think his favorite part about visiting the library though is getting to pick a prize out of the treasure chest after we check out our books. :)

CRAZY Week!

This week was a little bit more CRAZY than usual. 

But, first some bliss: I kicked this week  off by turning 26 on Monday. We had friends over all weekend to help celebrate. It was really nice seeing friends I haven't seen in a long time!

Elisha baked me TWO cakes this weekend! On Saturday night, he helped our friend Maerissa bake me a cake. It was SOOOO delicious! NOT kidding--and Elisha did most of the work, Maerissa just guided him! (Matt put on the sprinkles). :)

On Monday night, my actual birthday, my hubby and Elisha baked me ANOTHER cake. It was equally delicious! :) I had a nice birthday. I didn't sleep in or even go out to do anything, really. In fact I got up early and went to help a friend clean a house she was moving out of for a few hours. Then I said goodbye to our friends who were in town all weekend who were going back home. Then we ate nachos and birthday cake for dinner with fam and friends and watched a movie. It was a nice and simple day. :)

We had a lot of fun just laying around taking these pics on Monday afternoon. Elisha makes the same silly faces as his daddy!

Now for the crazy: Elisha has been having a rough time following directions this week. Not to mention he is hungry ALL the time which means ANOTHER growth spurt more than likely AND I think he is coming down with a cold, so he has been very emotional and grumpy. I had to spend most of yesterday cleaning up the house and catching up on housework, laundry, etc. Our lessons have been very choppy. But, I still find him singing our songs and talking about some of our lessons. He is all about pointing out letters and numbers that he finds on signs, buildings, etc. I have to constantly remind myself that homeschooling is not exactly following a schedule. Sometimes I need to be flexible and give him opportunities to learn through other activities rather than our lesson plans.

Today has been our most "normal" day (so far) this week. We went for our walk, read our stories, sang our songs, played our computer games. And we still have a whole afternoon ahead of us for playing, painting, worksheets or whatever we want. Even though spontaneity can be a lot of fun, I still like days like this--where we have sort of a routine. :)

Elisha played his Reading Eggs game this morning.