The Gilsons: Merry Christmas!

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Merry Christmas!

Just some random pictures to show we had a fun Christmas.

After our dress up and acting out the Christmas story, Izzy wouldn't get rid of her Mary costume.

The kids gathering the presents from mommy and daddy's room to put under the tree.

Christmas morning we take turns opening presents and of course Andrew couldn't stop reading one of his new books.

We started following a poem a year or so ago that goes:

Something to read,

Something to wear,

Something to play with,

And something to share.

Each kid gets a present for each part of the poem. The something to share part resulted in a load of new games which has created some monsters around here. It's been especially bad this week since I've banned the tv and computer games (due to too much complaining that there's nothing to do whenever I'd say no to watching a movie. It's amazing how much they're finding to do without these electronics although I'm looking forward to bringing it back just enough to say let me take a nap.=) Anyways, Christmas day was spent with family playing games almost all day long. The kids watched a lot of movies when the games were over their head (this was before the electronics ban.)

It was a wonderful Christmas day filled with great family fun and yummy food. Glad everyone survived being squished in our tiny house. Anyone up for another game day???

2 comments:

Jones said...: we had the same wrapping paper!! I like your idea of opening one at a time, less chaos. This year we opened our gifts before the kids, lol.; January 1, 2010 5:25 AM
Jones said...: oh and Calvin looks so big!; January 1, 2010 5:25 AM

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Kid funnies

--Alex said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd grab a star and hang it in my bedroom.

Calvin said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd grab a cloud and use if for my pillow.

Izzy said, "If I could touch the sky, I'd go to the Milky Way and sell milk.

--While boiling apples for making applesauce Calvin said, "Look at all the hot going up. ... I smell BBQ." Alex said, "No, that's applesauce."

--While cleaning the basement and seeing Calvin not participating I said, "Calvin, do you know how to pick everything in here up?" Calvin said, "NO, I don't have big hands. I only have 2 hands." All I could do was laugh.

--Izzy said, "When I'm bored, I squish people's heads at church."

--Alex said, "I really want to take swimming lessons. I already know how to drown."

--Calvin after using the little potty. "Mommy, come get Henry quick or he's going to snitch my pee."

Favorite Homeschooling Quotes

"Schoolhouses are made wrong. If they must be, they should be built in a woods pasture beside a stream, where you could wade, swim, and be comfortable in summer, and slide and skate in winter. The windows should be cut to the floor, and stand wide open, so the birds and butterflies could pass through. You ought to learn your geography by climbing a hill, walking through a valley, wading creeks, making islands in them, and promontories, capes, and peninsulas along the bank. You should do your arithmetic sitting under trees adding hickorynuts, subtracting walnuts, multiplying butternuts, and dividing hazelnuts. You could use apples for fractions, and tin cups for liquid measure. You could spell everything in sight and this would teach you the words that are really used in the world. Every single one of us could spell incompatibility, but I never heard father, or the judge, or even the Bishop, put it in a speech.

"If you simply can't have school that way, then you should be shut in black cells, deep under the ground, where you couldn't see, or hear a sound, and then if they'd give you a book and a candle and Miss Amelia, and her right-hand man, Mister Ruler, why you might learn something."--from Laddie; a true blue story by Gene Stratton-Porter