Our New Year

Sydney – She has had fun making some outrageous head pieces out of paper that she has been attaching to her headbands to wear (i.e. a crown, a large bow, cat ears, etc). Pictures to follow. Right now she is learning to play the Minuet in G by Bach (for her Spring recital piece) and I am a Child of God (she is going to accompany us at our next Family Home Evening!).

We are in the process of figuring out how to post MP3’s to our blog so you (mostly meaning Grandma) can hear Sydney’s last few recital and … Read the rest

My Artistic Children

Here is Isaac’s very colorful picture. I didn’t have time to ask him what the picture is about, but you can see he wrote his name on it! لعبة بوكر
We are reading The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis (from the Chronicles of Narnia series) right now so Sydney drew a picture of Jadis, the queen of Charn who later becomes the White Witch. In her left hand, she is holding the lamp post that later becomes planted in the ground in Narnia.
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