Today is Brought to You by the Letter F

Words:
Fox
Fireman
Fish

Bible Story:
Jesus feeds the 5000 with 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread
Click here for a cheesey YouTube video version of the story.

Spanish:
Falda (skirt)
Fiesta (party)

Person to pray for: Fede

I also wanted to share that I have 2 main points I'm trying to teach Renae in each Bible lesson we learn, as well as through daily life. Don't think I'm that great . . . I haven't talked about our 2 main points in forever! But today's Bible story reminded me of these 2 great lessons. So here are the 2 questions I ask Renae, and the answers that we talk about as often as I can remember:

What does Jesus want us to know? That God is good.

What does Jesus want us to do? Help others.

What are some things you do with your kids to teach them some basic spiritual truths? I'd love some new ideas! Also, what kids Bibles do you use?

Today is Brought to You by the Letter E

Words:
Elephant
Earth

Bible Story:
God created the Earth

Spanish:
Escuela (school)
Empujar (push)
Estrella (star)

People to Pray for:
Ethan

Today is Brought to you by the Letter D

Words:
Door
Dinosaur
Desk
Drawer

Bible Story:
David and Goliath

Spanish:
Dedo (finger)

Pray for:
Uncle Dan
David Wilson
Dani from Spain


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Yes, I know, we didn't get very far in our alphabet lessons. Which is why I'm finally starting back up. After 2 months here, we also finally have a solid routine which means I picked Monday's to be my day when I teach Renae a new letter. I spent about 15-20 minutes while Sammy was taking his morning nap to tell Renae the Bible story, talk about the letter D, and pray for our friends and family whose names being with the letter D.

Also, if you are wanting to do your own alphabet book, I found these images for each letter of the alphabet and made it into my own printable book. I'd be more than happy to email you the document if you want. Don't have too high of expectations. Each page has one letter on it and I printed it off to make a "book." Actually . . . it won't be a book until we've gone through the entire alphabet (23 more weeks to go!). For now, I have Renae's "D" page hung at the end of one of our kitchen cabinets so she can look at it all week. Next Monday, I'll trade it out with the letter E. Just remind me to keep the old letters in a safe spot so that I can make the book when we're done!

Look below for letter's A-C, and check back here each Monday (more or less . . . ) for more images and our alphabet. I'm also going to do a a 15-20 lesson in Spanish for Renae every Thursday. If you are interested, I'll post what I'm doing for that and I'll make any documents I do available.

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Today is Brought to you by the Letter B

B is for Baby, Bumble Bee and Bible
B is for Biblioteca (library in Spanish)
B is for tower of Babel (when the people of earth became too proud and God mixed their language)
B is for Aunt Britt and Tia Bea (we prayed for you both today!)

By the way, bringing up children sometimes drives me bonkers! But there are funny moments to help me make it through a day:

Last night Renae was naked (she likes to "do naked" before putting on her pajamas) and coming up the stairs with her hands behind her back . . .

Me: Renae, what's in your hands?
Renae: Butt.

It was true. Her butt was in her hands . . .

Let the Learning Begin . . .

Yes. It's been a month since I updated. This is what happens when you no longer live overseas, far away from all friends and family. I also don't take nearly as many pictures. This is partly due to the fact that I no longer live in a foreign country where cool picture opportunities abound, and partly due to the fact that we live with my parents. If you've ever been around a Grandma or Nana you know that they are pretty good at taking pictures! Therefore, I haven't used my own camera in oh . . . a month. I need to get a hold of those precious pictures of the kids that are filling up my Mom's camera.

So in recent news . . . I'm starting a daily alphabet theme with Renae. I partly stole the idea from Sheryl. I doubt I'll do it every day but Renae is at the age where she is able to understand a lot of fun things so I thought I'd take advantage of this stage. I'll try and post our alphabet fun on here as I do each day.

Today is brought to you by the letter A

A is for Apple.
A is for Abraham who obeyed God. (We watched a cute cartoon on youtube and then talked about it.)
A is for Amor, the Spanish word for love.
A is for Aicha who we prayed for today.