So Sweet!

Took these last night. Two very tuckered out little people! Need I say more?

Gingerbread House

So excited about building our first Gingerbread House together

Chef Edward

All the components laid out.

laying the "glue" for the walls

Four Walls Up!

Look Mom red hands!

Finalized House (didn't stand for long)

Enjoying the fallen house!

Hangin' With Grandma Bev

Playing with the Playmobil Egyptian Playset with Grandma Bev

Playing with Grandma Bev and the Egyptian Playset

Building a birdhouse with Daddy

hammering the the nails into the birdhouse

Daddy making sure that the nails are set nice and tight

Painting the birdhouse with Grandma Bev

Grandma Bev doing some painting

Edward directing the painting Grandma Bev is doing

Kansas Cosmosphere Field Trip

Space Shuttle on next to the Cosmosphere

Taking a picture with the Astronaut Statue out front of the Cosmosphere

Astronaut Soda

Posing in front of the Astronaut Display

Space Shuttle Display

Trying out a space shuttle seat

Up Close to the space shuttle

Star Trek Display (Sorry it is sideways!)

holding up the moon (not quite a moon walk but it will do for now)

Space Shuttle Simulator

We are learning about Astronauts and Space in God's Design Science this month, so I took Edward to the Kansas Cosmosphere for a Mommy and Edward Field Trip. We had a great time. It was the first time we have gone to the Cosmosphere here in Kansas, so it was a lot to take in.

Flyin High Legos

Kirk bought Edward this Lego set in Feb 08 when he was in Minnesota at the Mall of America. Edward loves it and he took most of these pictures himself.

Fresco Painting

We learned about Crete and as a part of our lesson, we choose to make a Fresco Style Painting. I am sad to reporter though that after it was completely dry you couldn't make out the picture that we had painted, so it met the trash can. But it was still fun to do.

A Master Piece

Okay first let me say this, I am no longer a Jon and Kate plus 8 fan, but before things went south...I had watched them on and off. I saw this one episode where she took them to an art school (or something like that) and the little kids did these really cool paintings. As soon as I saw this, I wanted to do something similar with Edward. We used Acrylic Paints, Aluminium Foil, a plastic fork, a plastic knife, a painters knife, sponges and various paintbrushes. We did do it and it is hanging above our fireplace. I want to get it framed.

Planets

We have been learning about the planets for part of our science (we do 2 sciences), God's Design. I bought this mobile model for us to assemble. I really like it. It was hard to get them to even out when we first hung them, mainly because I had some the planets backwards according to their (hard to read) diagram. I added a little sand to the smaller planets and that seems to have even them out some. I will have to take a picture of the completed Model and add it to the blog, I thought I had taken one but I guess I hadn't. Anyway, we had to hand paint each planet. Edward had a blast doing this project. We did it when Daddy was gone overnight and it worked out great as a diversion for Edward.

Mummmmmmyyyyyyy!

We went with another homeschooling family to a local Museum in Wichita (Museum of World Treasures). We are currently learning about Egypt and Mummies. I liked what they had but wished there was more and maybe some hands on activities for the children to do.

Checking out the inner casket of the sarcophagus

In front of a sarcophagus

A real Mummified Lady (this really freaked Edward out)

A Canopic Jar

Just a cute little Castle Play area that they had for the children in the Museum.

Tap Dancing

Edward has been taking Tap Dancing Lessons now for almost 2 months. He seems to be enjoying it greatly. I like that they are private and I hope because of that he gains a lot of knowledge and skills from them.

Do Flaps across the room.