For some reason, Tommy was insistent on having his lunch in a lunch box and eating it in front of the tv.
I printed out a pile of coloring pages for the boys. I had also seen on a blog somewhere this really great idea that we decided to try out. You put pictures of the first presidency and 12 apostles up on the wall. When one of them is speaking, your child draws a picture of what is being said, then you hang it next to the person's picture. Damon loves to draw and color, so this was awesome! We helped him listen for things that he could draw. We missed a few, but overall we did great! My absolute favorite was his drawing for Elder Anderson's talk about multiplying and replenishing the earth. What a wonderful talk! Anyway, Damon drew a stick figure mom with a giant belly (pregnant). Then a billion little kids around her with the dad playing soccer...of course. Isn't it the greatest?!
I can't believe how well this idea worked. We left the pictures up for a few days. At Family Home Evening Monday, we reviewed. I said a prophet/apostle and the boys had to run and find his picture. Then, I asked Damon what that particular person's talk was. He did amazing!! I mean he's not even 5 yet and he could tell us what was spoken at General Conference! Call him up and quiz him...I'm sure he'll do great! After a while, Barrett had the idea of reversing it and asking "who talked about your scriptures being your friend?" And Damon would answer without even thinking, "Elder Scott." I'm not sure this will work every time, but boy were we pleased with the results! It even helped US remember what our apostles talked about!
Part of the fun of conference weekend is eating good food. We of course had a little applesauce and made a delicious apple cake. We also made some adorable sugar cookies that looked like candy corn. You divide the dough up in 3 bowls and dye one orange and one yellow and layer it all in a bread pan, then slice it and cut them in triangles. We dipped them in sugar before cooking them...so cute! On Sunday we had waffles in the morning, white chili for dinner, and then made homemade raspberry ice cream with the raspberries we have been growing (they are in buckets in the front of our house and we only collect a few every few days...Barrett's been collecting them and putting them in the freezer until we had enough to make ice cream). We sure loved it!! It brought back memories of this summer making and eating raspberry ice cream with Grandpa Barry:)
So, I should mention that we have boys. 2 boys. Boys don't love sitting still for very long. Tommy was bouncing off the walls at times during conference. We had to pull out trains, legos, and make up other games to keep him occupied. Between sessions on Saturday I had to take them to the park to get out some energy while Barrett went on a 10+ mile run (I guess he needed to get out some energy too). Sunday we had to play basketball downstairs and do obstacle courses. Don't think all 4 of us were sitting reverently the whole time listening intently...those were the days before children:)
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