For some reason this Tuesday has been worse than Monday. I would love to know where my boys who were just dying to learn and try new and harder things. Today it has been all WHINE WHINE WHINE. But we have persevered. I found a very pretty cross colouring worksheet that you can download here. We didn’t use paint on ours so they were not necessarily for the windows, but the result using crayons was equally as pretty.

Finished crosses

We are almost done memorizing a spring poem. Just two verses so not overly taxing and the boys have really applied themselves to learning it! We have also started working on a series of April facts they are copying, much more complicated than what they can read on their own but it gets them practising words and punctuation they are not familiar with. This is a Currclick freebie called April Facts Copywork – Mini Cards. You just need to make a membership with them and then go hunting through the freebies. There are tons of helpful ones!

Hard at work

We are definitely in the thick of lovely spring weather. We could stand a little warmer for sure but it is enough to get the kids out. We made our first walk of spring as a family today to the nearby gas station. Still a little chilly but it was so nice to get out and spend some time as a family. Trinity didn’t want to walk today and I felt it was too chilly to put Echo in our peapod baby carrier. I am hoping to put her in that next time. That is one thing I would love to splurge and  get a second of… I have the blue version and would love another colour!

Holding hands

Miss Trinity

Yours truly

We have narrowed down Echo’s toy of choice I think – the pink sit and play we got for Trinity as her big baby purchase. She has had a rather good 3 days in a row actually with lots of playing on her own and chatting away to herself. It is always a wonderful thing when she is a happy baby girl.

Happy baby

I am currently working on balancing the religious and non-religious aspects of Easter. So I am using the Christian website I have linked above as well as looking for stuff that is more secular… We are of course decorating our eggs… and will do up some more bunny related crafts over the next week and a half. I actually depend on Sunday School for a lot of their religious teaching on purpose. For the boys Sunday School is “going to school” and very special to them so we have tried really hard to make it a distinct and unique experience. Ken was not raised in a very religious household so I am also working to balance what I remember (the prayers at bedtime and meals… talking about the 10 commandments etc etc) and what is within Ken’s comfort zone. He is very much a person who finds religion in nature and his personal time with God, where I was raised a Lutheran.

I am on the look out for an easy hand stitching pattern of a sheep to go with my bunny and bear ones. Anyone have any suggestions?? Apparently all sheep tend to be knitted. Something I CANNOT do. I would love to find a pattern the boys could do as well as myself… just not having much luck with Google search sadly.

I have moved onto ANOTHER monotonous backstitching section on my large project which is spurring me on to become more creative in regards to that stocking in need of designing. I am hoping we can find some time to get this pinned down soon, I want to have all stockings done as early as possible (so far I just have the one to do…).

That leaves me an evening of backstitching, cleaning and hopefully planning on a new pattern. Ken is still contacting rentals and we are staying VERY optimistic. So fingers crossed everyone!

Sippy