. . .Two, Two, Two! Elli is 2 ! Elli's birth name means, "My God has answered" and her name is a daily reminder to me that He hears my prayers. My pregnancy and Elli's birth were special because they were a time of growing in faith as I tru…

For our Hebrew lesson this week, we worked on the letters aleph (no sound), bet/vet (b/v), gimmel (g), dalet (d), hey (h), vav (v), zayin (z), chet (ch as in ba ch ) and tet (t) and the sounds they make. We also learned two new vowel points /ay/ and /e/ as…

Ever since reading The Toothpaste Millionaire with the boys, I have wanted to make toothpaste! The story is about a 12 year old boy named Rufus, who decides to make his own toothpaste after seeing how much it costs for a tube of the stuff. After all, how ha…

For Lifeskills, we made yogurt, kefir and kefir cheese. To make the yogurt, Nathan is adding 1 cup of Mountain High Yogurt (a yogurt with live and active cultures) to 2 1/2 cups of milk in a quart jar. The jar is then placed in a warm oven (turned on to 170 d…

~Eliana is currently 24 months old~ "Picture me!" she says. "You want me to take a picture of you?" "Yes! Do school." She is so funny! She is coloring in Malachi's Get Ready for the Code book in the top pictures and you ca…

G'day mate, we have been down in Oz having an onkey-dory time! Here is what we have been doing the last three weeks for geography. We: Learned Geography Songs for Australia, New Zealand & Oceania Labeled Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea …

ABC Book: This is the first time Malachi has attempted to write his name! I can see that we need to work on this! He circled some of the letters instead of tracing them! Memory Verse:  From Sing the Word A-Z Marvel not that I said, Marvel not tha…

Here is my first Tot Tool - homemade musical instruments. I will share what I did, but for more detailed instructions see DK's 101 Great Science Experiments, A step by step guide . Build a Banjo! I attached a length of wood (that I let M…