More verses...C, D, and E!

The kids are still working on their ABC Bible verses. Aaron just loves it when I say he's mastered one enough to move to the next letter! Claire usually takes a little longer to get the verse memorized, so in the spirit of "no child left behind" we wait on her. (Actually, what I think she does is not even attempt to recite it to me until she has it 100% perfect, because just when I think she hasn't even started learning a verse, she'll up and say the whole thing! The key is Aaron and I reciting it over and over in her presence.) We usually work on the verses while we're riding in the van.

I had the kids say their C, D, and E verses for the camera yesterday. Claire insisted on also saying her A verse, because that is still her favorite.

A: "As for me, and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15 (They sometimes like to say "and my mama" instead of "and my house" which I think is just adorable.)

B: "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved." Acts 16:31

C: "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right." Ephesians 6:1

D: "Do to others whatever you would like them to do to you." Matthew 7:12

E: "Every good and perfect gift is from above." James 1:17

I love the fact that I am learning these verses right along with them, as I just typed out all of those from memory!!

ABC Bible verses...A and B are done!

One of my New Year's goals was to let the kids learn Bible verses all year. We have decided to do ABC Bible verses (there is a book for this but I don't have it--we are making up our own!). We're doing a new verse every 2 weeks or so, and by the end of the year they should be all the way through the alphabet. We may be done sooner, because once they have mastered one verse, they are anxious to learn the next one.

To make it easy to learn, I make up a little tune and say the verse to that tune. Claire really loves to SCREAM the letter before she says each verse. It's fun because I can randomly say "B!" and one of them will start saying the B verse!

Our verses so far:

A: "As for me, and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15
B: "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved." Acts 16:31
C: "Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right." Ephesians 6:1

They have mastered A and B, and they love to say them for the video camera.

Here's Aaron, with some bed-head going on!

And Claire, who can't stand still and always gets really high-pitched for the B verse.

I'll post more videos as they learn more verses! I just love the fact that they are hiding God's Word in their hearts.

Lights, Camera, Action!

I just found several cute videos that I forgot to put on the blog. So I'm going to do it all in one big post. Sit back with a mug of hot tea (my favorite!), an Oreo cookie (what I just ate!), and enjoy this window into my world.

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For this first performance, it was close to nap time. I had been in the back of the house and noticed the kids had been playing well together for quite some time. So I snuck up on them with the video camera. Claire was all hyped up, doing her "Swiper no swiping" Dora imitation. Aaron was pretending to swipe things from her--her belly, her underpants. ??? Claire's energy is what really makes this video. That and the underwear cuteness, especially Aaron's that are on backwards. One other noted feature is the TV is on PBS, and Reading Rainbow was coming on. Hearing that theme song takes me back to my childhood, specifically my babysitter in 2nd grade.

As I mentioned in a previous post, Aaron got a soldier costume at church a couple of weeks ago. When he got home and put it on I took a quick video hoping he would explain it to me. His answers are pretty funny! Claire makes an appearance and jabbers in my ear the whole time.

We set up a "festival" in the living room, with a bean bag toss just like Aaron saw on a Blue's Clues episode. What I really wanted to capture here was Claire's great underhanded toss. She really winds up and it was cracking me up! She only did it once in the video, then got sidetracked pretending one of the boxes was a grocery cart for her baby.

And finally, Aaron dug out an old wooden toy he had, which is supposed to make a helicopter. Last night he was making all kinds of "machines" with it, explaining to me their elaborate functions. I got a little on video today, but it wasn't quite like the conversations last night. It never is when the video camera is rolling!