Noah's Ark

The things you do to please your children. At church yesterday Elsa had a lesson about Noah's ark. As Elsa was telling us about her lesson, Brian suggested we continue this lesson for Family Home Evening. (We now have FHE on Sunday evenings since Brian is gone during the week.) Elsa was excited and asked if we could do a Noah's Ark craft. I agreed thinking it would consist of a couple pages of construction paper with some Popsicle sticks and foam animal stickers. But Brian had a grander vision. He wanted to make an ark cake. Whatever. We ran out of time yesterday with going to the park, home teachers coming, and taking care of everything else. Elsa was so upset at bedtime that I had let her down because I "was feeding Greta." Her exact words were, "It is all your fault. You were upstairs feeding Greta." Love hearing that at 9pm after a long day. Anyway, I promised her we could do it the next day. So today, right after I picked her up from kindergarten, the four of us went to the grocery store to buy a cake mix, frosting, animal crackers, and fruit roll-ups. This is what we created. I am no Betty Crocker! The girls had fun deciding which ambiguous animal crackers would be Noah and his wife, as well as deciding what could be the water. They had even more fun eating it.