The Singleton Family

Saturday, August 9, 2008

VBS - Being Silly - Emily Begins Piano

It's been a wild and crazy summer keeping up with Emily and Luke, but we're loving it. Sorry I don't have any pictures of the pool and all the fun we have there each day. For safety reasons I can't manage pictures and keeping Luke afloat while he thinks he really can swim! Enjoy the stories! -Angela

Can you say Family Band Rehearsal / Rock Concert in the LIVINGROOM??? Yep, we did it. The kids wanted to have a 'church band show' (as they called it) and so we did. Here's Luke sporting the guitar and his very own look a like security band clearance badge (actually a Hershey's Chocolate Factory ID badge).

We have a new SUPER HERO... named Luke the All Mighty!! Today was obviously a dress up day and Luke put on a make shift cape. He then ran around the house saying "Whoo-Hooo" and pretended to save the day! This was an improvement from his desire (and Emily's) to dress him up in a tutu so he could learn ballet from our very own ballerina, Emily. :-) Luke as a Super Hero is an every day occurence in some fashion or another.

And... who would have thought that our very own Luke would discover (or even think of) how to break into his own toy kitchen through the kitchen window?!?!?! He was loving it... and for safety reasons we had to put the kitchen back up against the wall.

Out of the blue one day, Luke showed us he could respond to a stranger's question of, "How old are you?" by holding up his two fingers. We have been working on this, but he never cared to join in... until now!

VBS at Abiding Savior... 'Calling All Heros'

The kids had a blast with this VBS and LOVED to dress up as pirates and be God's Super Heros!

They really enjoyed the singing and dancing part too.

Now that they are pirates, they pretend to sail the seas in a laundry basket on our carpet floor... but don't spoil the fun. Sometimes they add blue colored blankets to make it look more like the ocean!

VBS at The Family Church... Island Style

Emily (and her friend Ansley) perform in the preschool section of the VBS musical.

The kids LOVED the children's building under water ocean experience. Here's just a taste of the fun.

Emily requests a picture in front of her keyboard where she spends 30 minutes a day practicing her new music. She's loving it!

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Emily's first days of school!!

Emily is making new friends and enjoying our schooling at home with Sonlight. She's reading too!!!! She's in the beginning stages, but she's reading ~20 sentences a day or more. I have books with short stories in them that do a lot of rhyming or changing only one letter, etc. She practiced her -at words today along with learning the 'th' sound for The and That. She's even writing sentences through copywork. She's so proud of herself. Her favorite part is science. We tried to make our own rainbow today but the sun didn't cooperate very well for us. She has also decided she's going to build a money machine for daddy. She drew her plans for the machine and says once it's build his employees and visitor will simply put their money in it and then he won't have to go to work anymore! Smart girl, huh? If only life was that simple. Perhaps she will invent something some day and will simply have people investing in it so she doesn't have to work again. :-)