One afternoon, we had some lovely guests over for lunch. While Hubby and I were cleaning up after the meal, our guests were playing with our kids; (I really enjoy having these type of guests over, even more so than our kids if that were possible). I returned to find that little E had built his own real lego person! It tickled my creative bone to no end.

Materials
Lego/Duplo blocks
A willing person to be the model

How We Played

 Stack duplo blocks onto your model.
Miss Cookie was kind enough to be E’s model.
E built Miss Cookie some pretty cool toes.

E also managed to stick an eye on.

 How’s this for a caption for the above:
“My, what a big eye you have Miss Cookie! Now use it to look at the huge toes I built you.”

Our habits, bits and pieces of our character form their imprints on our children. Some traits, like E’s budding creativity, amuse. Other traits are humbling. The trait that matters most is the state of our heart towards God, our creator and maker. Left on our own, our hearts are as stone towards God. We would not choose him. However, God has not abandoned us. In Christ, He loves us. In Christ, He justifies us. In Christ, He redeems us. In Christ, He restores us.

“..for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus..”
(Romans 3:23-24 ESV)

What a sigh of relief I can breathe, for me, and my children.

E: 1 year, 11 months

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This is what I want to tell them about service: “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.” ~ (John 15:13 ESV)

This is what I want them to hold fast to when faced with death: For those who are in Christ, his resurrection gives us hope. “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” ~ (Revelation 21:4 ESV)

Heavier things aside, we made some Anzac biscuits and that was the first time my sons heard about the Anzacs.

Ingredients

1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup plain flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup desiccated coconut
125g unsalted butter
2 tablespoons golden syrup
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon hot water

Method

Mix the dry ingredients together (except for the baking soda).

Melt the butter and golden syrup. Mix the baking soda with hot water and add this to the butter and golden syrup. Now combine this with the dry mixture.

Place tablespoons of the mixture onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Flatten the spoonfuls slightly and make sure they are spaced about 5 cms apart as the biscuits will expand as they bake.

Bake in the oven at approx 180C for about 10 minutes. Leave to cool before tucking in.

N & M: 3 years, 10 months
E: 1 year, 9 months

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