My sweet hubby went on a cross country trip last month to take our 2nd born back to Tennessee...sniff, sob.
Neither his dad or I wanted him driving all that way by himself. Washington to Tennesse is a long drive for someone who has never driven farther than Oregon!
You would have to know this young man to understand our worry. He, being so very frugal, would have slept in rest areas, in his car, alone, in a strange area just to not have to pay for a motel. He would also have driven straight through, eating from a paper bag beside him in the seat...and probably talking to strangers to boot!
Ughhh I would not have slept a wink till he arrived!
So hubby went with him, paid for motels, and even conned #2 son into stopping a couple of times to ski in Utah and Colorado...I know, it was a burden.
Anyway while the men were crossing the country the two little ones and I were here at home missing both of them, daddy especially.
So we decided to make him a book chronicling some of our adventures while he was gone.
This is a picture sweet girl drew of she and her baby brother...notice the conga line of birds above their heads?
Not quite sure when she saw that...guess I missed that one!
Now if I was one of those very organized home school moms I would have had them do this every day while the days adventures were fresh in our minds...
Or at least would have made little notes on the calendar about what we did.
But alas I am just not that with it, so we sat down together the day before daddy came home and wracked our brain to figure out what we did each day of the 8 days he was gone.
Even baby boy got in on the action...although being a boy he rather cut his pictures into little bits rather than have them published!
Yes that is my baby playing with scissors...no he did not cut his fingers off.
For my paranoid, over protective mother...I apologize.
Just as a side note...baby boy loves yellow.
He calls it "wewoe"
He also screams at his sister if he sees her coloring with anything yellow and insists that it is his.
That is why all the yellow coloring implements ended up on his tray.
If sweet girl needs yellow for say a sun...she has to sneak it!
Ahhh life with a baby brother!
When the kids were finished with their pictures, we mounted them on construction paper.
Then I cut a strip from Sweet Girl's writing tablet and she wrote a word describing what the picture was about.
This was she and baby boy in the garden the day we planted peas.
The little blue thing above their heads is a garden fairy...another thing I must have missed while I was bending over in the pea patch!
Here they are playing ball...
Here is the tornado the baby saw while I was looking elsewhere.
After all the pages were done we punced holes in them and put them inside a report binder. Sweet Girl then decorated the front of the binder with another picture.
Sweet Girl was so excited for daddy to get home to share the book with him. She sat with him beside the fire for the longest time explaining every last detail of her pictures and what she had done while he was gone.
This is a great project that incorporates art, spelling, and handwriting...
not to mention a lot of fun!
