Tea Parties and Such

Last month for Autumn's birthday I gave her a coupon book for things she could "buy" from Mommy such as a half-hour of reading to her alone; a treat I would make just for her, etc. One coupon she used last week was to have a tea party with me. Katherine, my granddaughter (pictured on the left) joined us. We had a wonderful time and both her and I spoke in a flawless English accent for upwards of 40 minutes!

In other happenings, Aiden is now into repeating what we say.
Like when I say, "Aiden, sit down", he'll reply, "Aiden, sit down".
He does this to Asher and Autumn especially and it drives them
nuts! Of course Jason and I have fun with it and try to make
him say funny things, and he will stop if Jason or I tell him to. But
for the time being we're finding it cute. This is a picture I took of him doing a maze book. He is really enjoying mazes now, and I can give him a maze book and pencil and he will sit for 20 minutes doing maze after maze. And one more thing, Aiden also likes counting things. Do you think this means he will be a math whiz?


Speaking of math, this is a picture of Asher doing some. Can you tell how much he loves it? Actually he rarely complains about math, I think he was just making a silly face because I was taking a picture of him. He will be 10 next week, can you believe it?

Final picture: this is the children dressed as Moses, Aaron, &

Miriam. We are studying Egypt and the Exodus and here they

are celebrating after the parting of the Red Sea!

My last piece of news is that the kids and I will be traveling to Oregon next week to give Jason some uninterrupted study time. Then the week after that, I am going home to Oklahoma on a trip Jason surprised me with! Isn't he the best?