Craft Day

Today, hopefully, we made our last shopping trip before the baby is born. We've decided to go vegetarian, so we're in the process of finishing off the bit of meat we have, then we'll go full force. We already eat mostly vegetarian, since I've never been much of a meat eater, so this really won't be too much of a change for me *smiles*. I did do a little splurge - I got No Pudge! brownies, which I made shortly after getting home. I've been wanting chocolate because it makes me happy, so I decided that was a less-guilty splurge :).

Today, we added more onto my daughter's playhouse. We bought the baby's swing over the weekend, so today we cut matching holes in the two boxes and attached them with tape. Now, it's a nice "castle".

My husband got a package in the mail (a VERY large one), which is now Noah's Ark, since it's a nice long rectangle. My daughter got some chalk last night at Awana, and since we don't have a sidewalk being in an apartment she used the chalk in the "ark".

Our Answers for Preschoolers lesson today had lots of arts and crafts, too. One of the projects was to take red, green and blue construction paper and tear it up into shapes, then glue it onto white paper

(the colors being taught right now are, naturally, red, green and blue). We also had a fun science/Bible object lesson - we've been talking about the Trinity, which is admittedly a difficult concept, so we took an egg an cracked it into a bowl. I asked my daughter "how many eggs do we have?" She answered "one". Then I asked "How many part to this egg are there?" She counted and replied "three". I then explained that God is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, but He's One God. From watching the Veggie Tales movie Sumo of the Opera and from us talking about it, my daughter was already familiar with the concept, but it was still a fun lesson.

We went on a nature walk and looked at and got lots of flowers :). My daughter took her umbrella - even though it's finally sunny and stopped raining - and found plenty of puddles to splash in. We walked around, looking at the blooming bushes, trees and plants, then grabbed some pinecones and headed over to the little pond to play PoohSticks (my daughter loves Winnie-the-Pooh, probably my fault since it was my favorite growing up).

It took forever, but the pinecones FINALLY made it under the little bridge to the other side. She was incredibly excited! Then she spent some time throwing rocks and sticks into the pond and seeing which ones floated and which sank. We saw a family of geese, which was pretty awesome. When we showed up, they waddled off to the water and swam to the other side. When we got home, my daughter arranged all the loot she collected: