Today Nathan (with a lot of help from Angela) completed the excavation of his dig-a-dino bones.
All 14 bones were unearthed from their muddy clay entrapment.
After a decent wash and scrub to remove the remaining dirt-remnants, Nathan then proceeded to put the bones together. The final result, this Brachiosaurus replica.
Every year a group of Home-Schoolers in Dubai have a concert for the kids to display some of their talents – Being our first year we weren’t to sure what to expect, but it was a pretty fun event, and great time to spend our Friday afternoon.
Aside from the expected recitals of piano, violin and even a flute music, there was a very polished “Irish-dancing” (notable, as none of the girls performing were Irish) and also Tai-Kwan-Do display.
There were about four “reports” about books read, holidays attended, etc. and also a few readings.
Nathan did a reading (we asked if he wanted to play piano, but he insisted on reading) and did a very good job of it indeed. About halfway through the reading he stopped for a lil’ while as he looked up and must’ve thought “Wow, so many people, all listening to me” but it didn’t seem to shake him and he continued reading calmly and clearly – Angela and I were very proud indeed.
This morning at 5:30 while I was busy getting Luke a bottle, Nathan came running excitedly into the kitchen and proclaimed he was ready to make his Mommy some breakfast and “spoil” her for Mother’s Day. He’s not yet 6 years old, so we kept it simple – Tea, Cereal and a Handcrafted card.
I proceeded to get Nathan some cereal as well, and while Luke finished his early morning bottle, we enjoyed a family “Breakfast in Bed”.
It brings joy to my heart to see Nathan so excited about loving his Mom’ – Praise the Lord for Him, and ov course, my wonderful wife as well!
For easter our friends Allan and Christine Paton gave Nathan a “Dig-a-Dino” excavation kit – Basically it’s a square clay brick, but inside it is heralded to hold a the promise of something exciting and mysterious, i.e. little plastic bones of a Brachiosaurus, that needs to put together to complete the activity.
Nathan has slowly been brushing away at the dirt (first two photo’s a couple days old) and today finally hit “pay-dirt” and uncovered the “dino-spine” … We’re all eagerly looking forward to him finding the whole thing! (not that the dinosaur is going to be particularly BIG, but it’s kinda exciting given we started off with a brick o’ dirt)
This is one of those great toys/gifts that teaches patience, not only to Nathan, but to Angela and myself who both really want to “dig-in” and help him out ’cause we’re realy just so darn curious, but realise we should restrain ourselves for his sake, afterall we are the adults in the relationship :-) I think the fact that this is also a “use only once” kinda toy has us all cautiously watching the progress …
