This Is What Awesome Looks Like

Jacob had a birthday this past week--11 years old.  My youngest son is growing up.  I love this guy!  (But boy, does he ever need a haircut)!!!

Missing:  Katie (taking the picture), Michael (at work), Jessica, Justin, and their littles (other plans), Heather and David and baby (in Switzerland, wah, I miss them).  Extras:  Becca (Matt's g.f.), Zach (Michael's brother).

I love my family.  (And the extras, too).  

:)

World War I Continues

Our study of World War I continues.  Slowly.  Each Tapestry of Grace week is meant to be completed in just that--a week.  But we are taking 2, and sometimes 3 study weeks for each Tapestry week.  I'm okay with it, though.  The kids are learning, and we are all enjoying the topic of WWI.  At this pace we will be spending 2 years for Year 4 of TOG.  :/

Jacob has been making more notebooking pages.  He loves looking through his notebook at the pages he's created.  I love that he is learning and that he is recording what he is learning.  And...I love that that he is writing, even if just short paragraphs.  He is writing-- a big accomplishment for a 10 year old boy who did not want to write anything previously.   :)

 

  Christmas Truce 1914

 

 Jacob's Pen Drawing of The Trenches

 

 Trench Warfare

 

President Pages:  Woodrow Willson

Did you know that Woodrow Wilson's picture 

was printed on the 100,000 dollar bill?!!

:)

Howizter Fun

Yes, we are studying World War I. No, this is not a World War I tank. If you know anything about this machine, please do tell.


This afternoon we were in town with some time to spare while Ellen was at her trumpet lesson, so Jacob, Emily, and I decided to find a few geocaches. The first geocache at Cracker Barrel was an easy find, but the one on this Howitzer was so cleverly hidden that we just about gave up. I think we spent at least 20 minutes checking this massive monster out, but to no avail. We even took Ellen back after her lesson to help search, but she also gave up. Mark met us in town (had to take a car to the shop for tires) and so we took him to the Howitzer, and what do you know, after about 10 minutes of searching, he found it! I was excited, because out of the 18 caches we've searched, we have only not found two. (It bothers me to not find a cache when I know it's there!). Fun day, fun memories.

TOG, Y4, U1 :: World War I

We started our study of WWI last week. This poster came in one of the books I bought, and so I hung it on the wall. Emily finds it fascinating. She and Jacob think the gas mask uniform looks like E.T. and they say it's "creepy." :D

Homemade Granola

Granola! Yummy Granola!

Too bad this will only last 2 or 3 days before it's all eaten.

Titanic Wooden Ship Model

In my post about Jacob's Titanic lapbook yesterday, I forgot to include a picture of Jacob with his model ship that he glued together and painted. He didn't want me to take a picture of his ship because the masts had already been broken off. At least he did smile for the photo.


By the way, the kit for the model ship is made by Darice like the one here on Amazon.

Titanic Lapbook

Today Jacob finished his Titanic lapbook. This boy of mine gets so excited about the Titanic, and he never minded working on his lapbook except for when it came to the writing parts. For me, I'm ready to move on--World War I, here we come!

the front

Jacob's drawing

three file folders

The above picture shows the booklets closed,
and the picture below shows the booklets opened up.

The photo is in a clear pocket that
flips out to reveal what's underneath.

More pictures can be found on my Flickr.