Book Review – God Gave Us the World

picture from Barnes and Noble.com

God Gave Us the World is a wonderful book about little bear and learning about the differences in the world. Little bear is always so curious to why something happens, or why something is someway.

In God Gave Us the World, Little bear wants to know if all bear tongues are the same and this leads to a discussion about why God created different types of bears, different locations and homes for the bears and why each individual bear loves what they have.

I read this book to my group of 2 year olds and they were in love with little bear and the pictures of the other bears. I also read this with a four year old and we discussed alot of the questions that were in the book and also more related to people and the differences between individuals.

The illustrations in the book were very cute and brightly colored. This is a great addition to our home library.

I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review

Day 29 - Cupcakes

Cupcakes for Valentines day with the girls…….This picture is from Friday as Saturday I headed to a 60th birthday party at the casino – and guess what – No pictures in casinos (LAME). Oh well. This will have to do.

Day 28 – Sledding with Nolan

Nolan Joined us to sled on Friday.  So much fun.  He even went down the big hill with his mama! 

Day 27 - Sledding

The weather today was amazing.  We borrowed some sleds and headed out to the “Big Hill”.  The girls were so excited about getting to go sledding.

We attempted to head up the big hill, with two 2 year olds in tow on one sled, one empty sled, and a four year old pulling another sled….we only made it half way up.  The girls went down that hill once and we decided to move to the other side where their is a bump at the bottom of the big hill.  The girls could climb up this bump and pull their own sleds and then go back down. 

We were out there for about and hour and a half.  Even mya started to get into the sledding and lost her fear.  Rylee loved it.  Loved loved loved it.  Madeline was a little fearless big kid that even went down on her belly head first.  They didn’t want to leave.

Day 26 – warm up

The weather here actually warmed up this week and we headed outside to play on numerous occasions. 

My husband willingly shoveled a path from our back deck  to the swing set…..this meant shoveling through 3 or 4 feet of snow for about 50 feet.  What a great husband I have……Or I should say, what a great daddy Rylee has.

The slide is super fast with a little snow on it but the landing is soft at the bottom.  Regardless of what we are doing, the kids are more then happy to make snow angels, march through the snow, and throw snow balls.  We can’t wait till spring when we can be out every day!

Day 25 - Innocence

 

We had a busy day today.  We had story time at the library this morning, ran home for a quick lunch and rest and headed out to the children’s museum for the afternoon.

I am always amazed by watching the innocence in these little girls as they play at the museum.  They just run and pretend, and imagine, and create and just flat out enjoy every minute that they are there. 

We have been going at least once a week since the museum opened with a few weeks skipped for major events like holidays, surgery, etc.  I really expected the girls to get bored with it, as they only have one changing exhibit and most of the time that one is filled with artwork.

Yet, they don’t get bored.  They don’t complain.  They get overly excited when I tell them that we are heading to the museum.  They run around with smiles on.  They are just plain happy.

Rylee was pretending to play the recorder, or trumpet, or kazoo, or anything that makes a noise.  She is always pretending to play some sort of instrument these days….Maybe I have a future musician on my hands.  Regardless, I love the determination and emotion that she puts into the pretend play.

And speaking of determination, this little girl was full of it.  She was attempting to place a piece of Velcro on the corresponding strip to measure how high she could jump.  She didn’t quite get the “jumping” aspect, however she reached as high as she could on her tippy toes and stuck it to the strip.  I love this picture. It’s one of the first “mirror images” that I have been satisfied with.

Day 24 – Sleepy times 3

What are the odds that 3 two year olds will be sleeping at the same time?  Well chances are if you roll into our living room between the hours of 1:15 and 3 you just might find that happening.  Of course a busy morning consisting of breakfast, playing dolls, mom’s club play-date at the coffee shop, and a yummy lunch may be required before achieving any sort of closeness to this miracle that happens. 

I must say I was amazed to see all 3 sleeping today.  Rylee and Mya have not been taking a nap during the week.  We have either been just too busy or we just rest.  I must say that I enjoy no nap days because that means bedtime is easy and early….But some days naps are just warranted.