Sunday at home

The Subaru is having problems and Fabian left early for the flea market, so we ended up not going to church yesterday. Instead, we played and read lots of books and William and Elias maneuvered around me as I did some reorganizing. Now that we have our pantry shelves (check 'em out), we have a whole empty bookcase! The office shelves were getting pretty stuffed, doubled in most cases with books blocking books and videos behind them.

Later, Will talked to me a bit about his dollar. He enjoys carrying around a dollar bill in either his hand, pocket, or some sort of bag. He reminded me that it is George Washington's face on the front, so we looked at more pictures of Washington in John Bowman's The History of the American Presidency. Will studied the pictures from Washington all the way up to Martin Van Buren (that's eight presidents and about 50 pages of the book), and asked numerous questions about them. He liked the pictures of Washington as General of the Continental Army, and we talked about going soon to Battleground Park in Greensboro to see the cannons.

We also watched some Raymond Briggs movies (Christmas is never out of season for William),

The Snowman and Father Christmas (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3), and, upon seeing Father Christmas drink a cup of tea, he jumped up and announced that we should have tea. So we did.