School Days–Hard

I wanted to document a funny thing that happened on our first day of school.  We start our school day with reading from the kids’ children’s Bible.  We have always read their Bible before bed as part of our nightly routine, but it gets crazy with the kids getting all of their energy out running around the bedroom while Daddy reads to them.  Zac will sneak a peak at the pictures now and then, but mostly they are playing and not paying much attention (although we know they are learning and are getting into a good routine of reading their Bible each day).  Some friends had told me that they read their Bibles to their kids at breakfast and “Fill them up on God’s word”.  GREAT IDEA!  As they are finishing their breakfast, I pull out their Bible and they get so excited and can’t run around because they are in their high chairs!  I love that they remember what we read yesterday.  Zac’s favorite was reading about Baby Jesus being born. 

He was having toast for breakfast.  He likes to take bites and tell me what his food looks like.  Usually, it’s a motorcycle or a truck.  My favorite this time was that after he took a few bites, he looked at his toast and yelled, “Baby Jesus!”  And then he ate him.  haha 

Our first week of school we learned the letter “A” and “Soft and Hard”.  Today we went on a “Rock Walk” to find some hard rocks.  It was garbage day and Zac loves to watch the garbage man dump the trash.  We usually watch from the window and he yells, “Thank you for getting our garbage!”  He had fun watching from his own big rock.

“Cool!”

Feeling that the rock is indeed “hard”.

Sis got in on the action too!

After our stop in the pile of rocks, his bucket got too heavy for him to carry while he walked.

We got to see the tractor in the background digging rocks.

Showing Lucy the hard rocks.

“First” Day of School Pictures

I was so sick all weekend and barely had the energy to do “school” the first day.  I waited until the second day to dress the kids up for first day of school pictures.  Here are Zac and Lucy in front of the Swilor Schoolhouse.

Kisses for Sis.

Zac showing me how old he is.  He hasn’t got “2” figured out on his fingers yet.  Usually he puts up a “1” on both hands to make “2”.

This is what I got when I asked for one more smile.

1st Day of School - “A” and Soft

School was starting all around us and Luke asked, “When does school start for Zac and Lucy?“  We started the first week of September once our summer slowed down a bit.  Luke even surprised us with some new school supplies!  Zac has a super love for letters and recognizes the entire alphabet, upper and lower case and has even started sounding out some letters.  And he just turned 2 a month ago!  He knows a stop sign says “STOP”, but surprised us the other day when we saw the word “STOP” in the parking lot and he yelled “STOP!”  He recognized the letters and read “STOP!”  My plan is to focus on one letter a week and add a few things here and there. 

Today we learned about soft using cotton balls. 

He got to play with them and we stacked them and made a snowman. We made a big ball and he smashed it. 

He kept saying “Cool!”

I drew an "A" on paper and he traced the letter "A" with his finger.

He placed the cotton on the letter.

He learned that we don't eat cotton balls, although he thought it was HILARIOUS!

Then he got to glue the cotton balls onto the letter "A".

His first day of school was a success!  He loved it!