The Gilsons: Our 4 year old

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Our 4 year old

Yes, still a little behind catching up before this new baby comes but I'm almost there (and hopefully so is baby.=)

Ever since Andrew's birthday, Alex has been asking when will it be her turn to decorate her birthday cake. Well, mid-December, it was finally time. She picked out a castle cake and loves the color purple so here is her masterpiece.

She loved her beautiful cake and I loved having her help. Happy Birthday princess.

We spent the day up at Grandma and Grandpa Gilson's house playing her new games (Ladybug and Pop Belly--so fun). Then we broke out the snow gear and went sledding. To be seen in next post.

2 comments:

Kristy said...: What a great cake!!!!; January 1, 2010 7:02 AM
thegilsonfive said...: where did you get blue jelly beans?! Myanna wanted some and I couldn't find any!; January 1, 2010 6:26 PM

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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