03/14/09

Today was project day at our house. We finally finished up Wesley's house and Mikayla cooked her Mujadarah - the stew that Jacob was making when Esau wanted something to eat after hunting all day. It was the day Esau gave away his birthright. (Genesis 25:29-34). She also made hummus and will serve that with mini pita bread that we found today!

We had an adventure with Kevin at the grocery stores this morning. It was entertaining finding new and exciting things to eat as well as trying to find Mikayla's ingredients. Thankfully, Kevin came and helped us with preparing the stew since he had fixed it before. Mikayla did a great job cooking. She was so in her element and loved it. It made me so happy to know she enjoys it. In that respect she is better than her mother.... Here are some pics of her hard work today. :) (We still have a few things to cut up tomorrow, but they have to be done last minute. She will serve this to her class on Monday.) I really enjoyed doing this with her. (I am sure Kevin would say the same as he was the one coaching both of us! LOL)

Mashing a garlic clove... with a knife... but she did great!

Pouring lemon juice she had squeezed into her hummus mixture

Cutting up onion

Adding uncooked brown rice to the lentils and onions

Here is Wesley working on his project. He made a model of a house during Jesus' time. Steve and I did have to help him with bits and pieces but for the most part this was his project. He came up with a lot of the designs and clay pieces on his own. This is where he excels... and this is my element, too. He and I are a lot alike.

Painting the shoebox that will be his house

Working with the Sculpey clay to make his pottery and other items for the house

Beginning to put together the house.... notice his palm trees made out of clay and construction paper!

This is a top side view of the house... you can see his grinding stone on the left with bundles of "wheat" ready to be ground, a basket, table with a pitcher, mat for the people to sleep on, candle holder and lamp (I need to photograph that lamp up close. You wouldn't believe how good he did on that...), his stove and the baking stones on top.
Front of the house.. notice the latticework.... Steve helped out with that...
The top of the house had a roller for the top of the house so that they could roll out the mud when rains came, (he wanted to do that especially because that was the only "tractor" they had in Bible times). grass sometimes grew on the houses, and he also put pottery up there that they would have used to store things. You can also see the area where water collected for them surrounded by the palm trees. You may want to click on the picture for more detail. He was so tickled with his project. He spent a lot of time on his details.