Holy Week

 

Working on our crown of thorns.  The children colored the tips of the toothpicks before they were placed in the crown.

Tobias seemed very touched by this exercise.  Before bedtime, he tried placing it on his head.  He said, "Ouch." 

Our "N" virtue of the week.  We worked on some projects to be more neat during Holy Week.  Magdalene was focused more on putting away her toys after coloring this page.  Perhaps I should have them color this page every single day! 

Our surprise from Vavo.  She sent some fun magnetics for us to build with this week.  This is by far our favorite thing she has sent.  I play with it even when the children aren't around. 



Magdalene colored the apostles while Tobias colored Jesus and helped glue the project together.  I wasn't sure if he was listening, because he had to leave the table for inappropriate behavior at some point.  He then came back to help again.  I wasn't sure how much he understood from working on this project and the discussion we had, but he talked to me about the Last Supper the next day.  Yes!  :) 

Tobias did a good job coloring Jesus. 
 

Good Friday pretzels

We did something new with lighting candles at noon.  They took their naps, and then blew their candles out at three.  I managed to fit in a Holy Hour during their naptime while nursing on and off and making a new batch of dough for the pretzels (the first batch was absolutely terrible). 

Hi cutie!

 

 

Before we left for the hotel on Holy Saturday, Theodore surprised Daddy with smiling at him for the first time.  He has smiled for others, but Daddy is so busy with the other children that he doesn't get a chance to hold Theodore much when he's awake.  It was an exciting moment for father and son.