Cornelius Chronicles

Thanksgiving Turkey Craft designed and created by Rebekah In Educational News:   Monday night Rebekah decided that Maeve needs to start learning to talk.  She has come up with a rigorous vocabulary building program for her little sister.  First, Rebekah made several flash cards with the target vocabulary words and a pictures of the words on them, such as the word BED with a picture of a bed.  According to Rebekah the picture is so that Maeve can know what she is reading about as she is learning her new words (I love that she is reading before she is talking).  Each night Rebekah reviews 4 vocabulary words with Maeve, with the goal of Maeve learning those 4 words by the end of the week.  If Maeve works hard and successfully completes her educational goal, then Rebekah has thought up some rewards for her.  The rewards so far are an extra bottle of milk and spending extra play time with a person of Maeve's choice.  I think Rebekah h...

"Creation—Living Creature" from LDS.org.  Accessed November 10, 2013 from http://www.lds.org/media-library/images/gospel-art/old-testament?lang=eng. By Dean John R. Rosenberg from the Brigham Young University Humanities Department: "The solution for our periodic faltering is the syntax of creation: the orderly sequence in which things unfold as Creators plan, counsel, and watch together.  The sequence is necessary and inalterable.  First there is light so that what is created might be watched.  Then the earth and skies are separated, and the celestial clocks - moon, sun, and stars - are wound and put in place to mark time.  Dry land pushes out of the sea, and anchors the roots of all variety of vegetation.  Complex organisms fill the sea and then the land, and now that the earth is built, Eve and Adam move in.  Then God rests.  The narrative tells us that at each state the Gods declared that what had happened on that day was "good": they ...

Maeve finally has long enough hair to pull it up into little fluffy pony and pig tails!  She looks so adorable with her little shock of down-soft blond hair spraying out!  Love it!   She has also really enjoyed helping the big kids eat their Halloween candy.  In this picture with Daddy she is sporting a very blue mouth thanks to a dum-dum sucker.  She LOVES suckers, and Loyd is always happy to share one of his with his favorite little sister.  :) Here's a picture of Rebekah sitting in the front seat of the car for the first time.  She was amazingly excited about this.  She is tall enough to sit in the front seat and Dustin had to take the van to get the brakes checked, so I crammed the four kids and myself into the Camry for the morning school drop off.  Because the backseat was full of car seats, Rebekah got to ride up front with me that morning.  She's pretty sure the front seats are more comfortable and the scenery is far m...

  After a full day of heavy rain, the weather cleared up beautifully just in time for Halloween fun. Everyone had fun trick-or-treating, but poor Loyd fell victim to his own love for the holiday.  With a fateful combination of Halloween day excitement and eating too much Trooper School candy, Loyd ended up throwing up half way around the block.  He had to come home early while the rest of the kids went to more houses.  At least his share of Xavier's preschool candy hoard eased the blow of a Halloween night cut short.  :)   Rebekah was an adorable raccoon this year.  She had so much fun walking around with a big, fluffy tail.  :)    Loyd had so much fun as an Angry Bird last year, that he wanted to do it again.  Such a happy Angry Bird.  :)      Xavier is a super fast cheetah.  You have to keep your eye on him or you just might miss him speeding by.   Miss Maeve is a b...