Bedtime Stories to Remember

 

Olivia got this devotional for Christmas and I am learning as much from it as she is.  It's that good!  Here are a few moments I want to remember:

 

1. January 31th the devotional was from  Matt 14:14 "He felt sorry for them."

 We were learning about splanchnizomai, which is the Greek word for "in the gut".  It describes that Jesus felt the pain of the crippled, the sick, the lonely leper, and the shameful sinner as a punch in the gut.  Once Jesus felt their hurts, he healed them.  The question that night was, "Who do you feel sorry for?  How can you help".   Without giving the question a thought, Olivia answered, "Grandpa Tucker.  We can pray for him."  And pray for him we did.  This was the night that my Grandpa Robel has passed away. 

2.  Tonight, February 11th, we learned about a "Feast of Kindness", from 1 John 3:17.  "Suppose  a believer is rich enough to have all that he needs. He sees his brother in Christ who is poor and does not have what he needs.  What if the believer does nothing to help the poor brother?  Then the believer does not have God's love in his heart."  One of the questions was "Are there any kids in your class who don't have anyone to sit with at lunch?".  Olivia was very thoughtful and serious as she pondered the question.  Pretty soon she said, "Well, there's this one lady who sits by herself.  We call her Grandma Ruth.  She helps us do our testing sometimes".  Richard and I couldn't help but burst out laughing. It's so wonderful to know that in kindergarten (or Olivia's class, at least), kids still practice kindness. 

3.  The greatest news of the year!  On January 20th, Olivia decided she wants to be baptized.  She was soooo excited.  I think on the day she made her decision, she was more excited for the baptism than she was for Christmas morning.  I can't wait for the special day this spring!

Cards and Writings by Olivia

This is a card Olivia made for me one day in early January when I was sick. 

I think it's definitely worth remembering.

 

 This is a picture of Olivia's most recent homework.  The assignment was to write two sentences about a picture.  I had already helped with spelling in the first 2 sentences. 

 The third sentence should read "He breaks the leaves" instead of "He brax the les". 

Sentence four should be "He takes off the leaves" instead of "He tax off the les". 

Sentence 5 is fairly close, reading "The bus triv" instead of "The bus drives."  

 Sentence six reads perfectly, "The bus is yellow." 

I just wanted to  remember what phonics is to a kindergartener!

My Silly Boy

January was pretty darn dreary, as I have said before.  One  our funnier moments was Spencer "dressing himself" in Olivia's pants.... backwards.  

Bogus Vegas

January seemed like the longest month ever.  We had three straight weeks of frigid zero degree temperatures at night.  During the days, it only reached the teens.  There was an inversion covering the valley, and for all but one, maybe two days, there was no sign of the sun.  We were fortunate enough to head up to "Bogus Vegas", as Olivia called Bogus Basin, for two hours of tubing a few weekends ago with friends.  It was beautiful!  We saw sunshine, blue sky, and thirty-degree temperatures that had us taking off at least one layer of our winter snow gear.  It was a blessing to see the sunshine!

 

 Big smiles before the tubing began! 

She got a little cold and upset at one point, but overall she did great!

This little guy was a trooper the whole time we tubed.

Olivia and her best bud, Tucker! 



We made it through and were happy to have such a beautiful blue sky for a backdrop!

We were bummed to have to return to the valley, which was covered by a dense, brown layer of fog.

A Profile Picture

Olivia asked me this afternoon what a profile picture was.  I tried my best to explain the term, but it was kind of tough.  She came back 5 minutes later and had on lip gloss, a headband, and her Christmas dress over her clothes.  She was going to change her profile picture on her Leap Pad 2 (her Christmas present) from Rapunzel to her own picture.  I thought she looked pretty darn cute!

My Batman

Spencer got Batman pajamas and a Batman robe (that's a little too long) for Christmas. 

He thinks they are pretty darn cool!

Winter Spirit in Lewiston

I am having some blogging difficulties downloading pictures, so my posts have slowed down a bit.

We went to Lewiston for Christmas and enjoyed the Winter Spirit light display.

Olivia and Spencer both had fun.

They didn't want to go at first. 

However, one we went, they were ready to go the next day.

I think Grama had fun, too!