Dem Bones

the making of slimy perfection

You know your priorities have changed when the phone rings and your significant other asks, "Who's calling this late?" when you look at the clock and it's 8:30 p.m. Then they proceed to tell the telemarketer that it's 8:30 p.m. and their toddler is asleep. Yep. Furthermore you watch the history channel because you actually like it and the other most watched channel in your house is the food network. I seriously … wouldn't change a thing!

Today was another wonky day. No one wanted to do anything. We did accomplish another "monster slime" science project. Here's a tip: there's a reason they don't say stir in the borax and water mixture, just dump it. It solidifies almost immediately, so the whisk got stuck and it was stringy for a while until worked into slimy perfection. Creed didn't mind, it was still fun.

We managed to finished the second apple tree page for our Apple Tree Book and to start painting our elephant parts for the elephant craft we're doing in conjunction with the book of the week, "When the Elephant Walks," by Keiko Kaza. The story is about the elephant walking which sparks a chain of events of many animals being scared of the elephant and at the end the mouse stands alone, as the elephant himself, clings to the bottom of the tree joining those who had climbed up before.

We've been going over the "ABC My First Learning Groovers," (traceable) book everyday during naps and night time, along with the Bible stories we've worked on during the week. I asked Creed tonight who made the sky, water, day, night, etc. and he alternated between God and Jesus. We talked about God and Jesus for a little bit. I asked him who made him and he answered Jesus. I told him God made everything. He looked around the room and started stating what Jesus made, "Jesus made the chair, Jesus made the TV, Jesus made the moon (on the wall we have the Moon in my Room hanging)." He wasn't wrong so I agreed, "You're right. God made everything." God has definitely given us the know-how to create and the energy to do so, whether we choose to do this or not. We've all been given different gifts.

I've been studying 1 Kings throughout the past week and it's pretty interesting how massive the tabernacle was that King Solomon built, not to mention his castle, I'm going to call it that anyway. I keep reading about these vessels that were built that contained thousands of liquid capacity. All I could wonder was, what was in there … fish? I wanted to know but it was never listed. It's all so mysterious to me. 

Before bedtime we watched as Eric Carle's books came alive on Netflix. One of my favorite things is watching the children's stories on DVD or Netflix now. Creed picked out a Scholastic video to watch earlier today that was called "Dem Bones," illustrated by Bob Barner. It was so strange I wasn't sure it was even appropriate for Creed, with a bunch of skeletons dancing around, but as I watched they pointed out which bone went where and what it was for. Creed really enjoyed "Dem Bones," turns out it was really educational. Dem Bones, sometimes called Dry Bones and Dem Dry Bones is a well-known spiritual song composed by author and songwriter, James Weldon Johnson. The lyrics are inspired by Ezekiel 37:1-14 where the prophet visits the "Valley of Dry Bones" and prophesies that they will one day revive at God's command. I kept asking Creed where which bone was in his body and he was pointing them out. In short, it's a little creepy to begin with but a catchy song!