H is for House

This week we read The Little House by Virginia Lee Burton. It wasn't Adam's favorite book but that was fine. I had already decided to focus this week on construction and building houses. We had a bunch of books from the library on how to build a house, and we read a different one everyday. We also played with a tools puzzle learning all the names and purpose of each tool. Daddy even spent the weekend building with Adam. He even gave Adam his very own hammer to keep. And as a bonus, Adam got to change Andrew's license plate (we finally made it to the DMV to get our licenses and plates changed from Georgia!) I was also pleased that Jason and Beth's Bible verse this week is "Therefore, everyone who hears these words of Mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock." Matthew 7:24 We talked about the importance of having a strong foundation when building a house and what that means spiritually in studying and following God's Word in our lives. I love when everything connects!

I realize that an appropriate field trip this week would have been a construction site or hardware store but thanks to our friends, we enjoyed a FREE field trip to the San Diego Zoo. So for one day, H was for Hippo! We saw many animals that day but made a point to see the hippos and talk about how hippopotamus starts with huh, huh, huh.
I tried to take a picture of the actual hippos but the glass and water were making for some bizarre and confusing pictures. This is what I got... strange, huh, huh, huh? Happy H Week!