November 29 - December3

The insides of Aidan and Mary's lapbooks.

Sorry..the blg does not allow for rearranging. Here is Mary's Russian Lapbook.

We managed to fit quite a few families in the house. Great fun!
Aidan at his Birthday party enjoying Lego building play time with his HS friends and friends. They build ships and buildings and cities.. The friends create a sense of comraderie and we were so glad that he got to share such a wonderful day with people who care for him.

Aidans's colored Russian Architecture and spaceship. Mary's is coming.

Watching Uncle Ashley and his brothers singing.

All of their children were brought out on stage and some sang solos.

Very inspiring.

Going backstage after with Auntie.

Waiting for the concert to begin with Tomas and and Mary's beloved friend "Auntie Jenn."


Mom carved out wax on a candle to uncover the wick. Aidan was then allowed to strike a match and to light it in a controlled environment. Mary watched and made sure we were staying safe.
We learned that fire is dangerous.



The children had a full weekend. They were invited to a Christmas Concert Gala put on by our family. It is a Christian Christmas COncert. The children dressed up to be courteous to the Singers. They sat nicely and were able to bring along a friend that we knew would enjoy it as well.



This weeks FIAR book was "Another Celebrated Dancing Bear" It was about a bear that wishes to dance like his bear friend. It is about friendship and is set in old Russian style. The artwork is done in beautiful etchwork.

The children were incredibly inspired by our lapbook that I created for them. It is a classic Russian (onion)turret skyline with a space ship shape on the side. They took great care in adding candy cane type colors to the turrets, shapes to the architecture of the buildings and loved adding detail to the space ship.

SPACE RACE was a key word for our brief talk about Russian history.

We realized after looking at the map that Russia has some serious land mass.